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Mary Wildermuth

Mary Wildermuth

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

plant-pathogen interactions

Dept of Integrative Biology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

adaptation, evolutionary biology, genomics, genetics, toxicology, insect biology, plant biology, microbiology, CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing

Mike Boots

Dept of Integrative Biology

ecology and epidemiology, evolution of infectious disease

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, cell biology, infectious disease, innate immunity, Microbiome, autoimmune diseases

Rodrigo Almeida

Rodrigo Almeida

Dept of Environmental Science, Policy & Management

emerging diseases, disease ecology, vector-borne plant diseases, insect-microbe interactions

Michael Shapira, Integrative Biology

Michael Shapira

Dept of Integrative Biology

aging, host-microbe interactions, Microbiome, C. elegans

Daniel A. Portnoy

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

microbiology, bacteriology, infectious diseases, intracellular pathogens, innate immunity, adaptive immunity, vaccines, cell biology

Dept of Integrative Biology

community ecology, estuarine host-parasite interactions, canopy gaps, Caribbean coast of Panama

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira in her office

Filipa Rijo-Ferreira

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

School of Public Health

molecular parasitology, mosquito vector biology in malaria infection, host-parasite interactions, host circadian rhythms, immunology, metabolism

Ashley Wolf

School of Public Health

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

gut microbiota, metabolism, genomics, host-microbe interactions

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

TB, mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, genetics, proteomics, transcriptional profiling, host-pathogen interactions, host-directed therapy

Nicole King

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

choanoflagellates, multicellularity, evolution of animals, host-microbe interactions, bacterial cues

Ellen Robey

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage, T cell development in the mouse, thymic development, cellular maturation, parasitic infection, chronic infection, host-pathogen interactions, Toxoplasma gondii

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

interactions between bacteria and their viral predators

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

agricultural sustainability, plant–microbe interactions, plant immunity, crop disease resistance

Britt Koskella in the greenhouse

Dept of Integrative Biology

Bacteriophage, Microbiome, plant-pathogen interactions, disease ecology, agricultural sustainability, Environmental Microbiology of Bacteria and Viruses, plant microbiome, evolutionary ecology

Kenneth Raymond

Kenneth N. Raymond

Dept of Chemistry

chemistry, bacteria, bioinorganic chemistry, biophysical chemistry, coordination, design of specific chelating agents for metal ions, human iron storage and transport proteins, low-molecular weight chelating agents, metals in medicine, metal-ligands

An image of Dr. Lofgren standing outdoors

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

comparative genomics, bioinformatics, ecology, mycology

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

immunology, molecular medicine

Britt Glaunsinger photo, credit Elene Zhukova

Britt Glaunsinger

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

Dept of Plant and Microbial Biology

virology, gene expression, herpesvirus

Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology

biology, cell motility, role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion, shape change, actin filament assembly, bacterial and viral pathogens

Oskar Hallatschek

Oskar Hallatschek

Dept of Physics

biophysics, evolutionary dynamics, soft matter, statistical physics, theory and experiments

Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad is a Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research integrates biomechanics, mechanobiology, artificial intelligence, and computational biology to understand how physical forces regulate biological systems across molecular, cellular, and microbial scales.

Mohammad Reza Kaazempur Mofrad

Dept of Bioengineering

Dept of Mechanical Engineering

molecular cell biomechanics, bacterial communities / microbiomes, deep learning for biology and medicine