Biological Sciences, School of
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Professors
Susan Ackerman, PhD, HHMI Investigator, Stephen W. Kuffler Chair in Biology, National Academy of Sciences (2019), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019), National Academy of Medicine (2020)
Omar Akbari, PhD
Eric Allen, PhD
Tim Baker, PhD, Emeritus
Eric Bennett, PhD
Darwin K. Berg, PhD, Emeritus, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)
Ethan Bier, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology
Jack W. Bradbury, PhD, Emeritus
Steve Briggs, PhD, National Academy of Sciences (2000), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007)
Stuart Brody, PhD, Emeritus
Lin Chao, PhD
Andrew Chisholm, PhD, Associate Dean
Maarten J. Chrispeels, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (1996), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003), American Society of Plant Biologists (2007)
Elsa Cleland, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Nigel M. Crawford, PhD, Emeritus
Michael David, PhD
Arshad Desai, PhD
Richard W. Dutton, PhD, Emeritus
Mark Estelle, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship VI in Cell and Developmental Biology, National Academy of Sciences (2007)
Gen-Sheng Feng, PhD
Richard A. Firtel, PhD, Emeritus
Douglass J. Forbes, PhD
E. Peter Geiduschek, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (1974), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1988), American Academy of Microbiology (1992)
Timothy Gentner, PhD
Michael E. Gilpin, PhD, Emeritus
James Golden, PhD
Susan Golden, PhD, HHMI Professor, Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair III, Director, Center for Circadian Biology, National Academy of Sciences (2010), American Academy of Microbiology (2000)
Ananda Goldrath, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship V in Molecular Biology, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2021)
Melvin H. Green, PhD, Emeritus
Ralph Greenspan, PhD, Codirector, Cal-BRAIN, Associate Director, Kavli Institute for the Brain and Mind
Shelley L. Halpain, PhD
Randolph Y. Hampton, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Jeff Hasty, PhD
Masaki Hayashi, PhD, Emeritus
Stephen M. Hedrick, PhD, Emeritus
Donald R. Helinski, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (1980), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1989), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)
David Holway, PhD
Terrence Hwa, PhD, American Academy of Microbiology (2015), National Academy of Sciences (2020)
Yishi Jin, PhD, Director of Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, Junior Seau Foundation Endowed Chair in Traumatic Brain Injury, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019), The American Society for Cell Biology (2020)
Suckjoon Jun, PhD
James T. Kadonaga, PhD, Amylin Endowed Chair in Lifesciences Education and Research, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993), American Academy of Microbiology (1995), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017)
David Kleinfeld, PhD, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), American Academy of Microbiology (2015), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)
Joshua R. Kohn, PhD
Takaki Komiyama, PhD
William B. Kristan, Jr., PhD, Emeritus, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching
Carolyn Kurle, PhD
Russell Lande, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (2015)
Andres Leschziner, PhD
Jill Leutgeb, PhD, Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship in Neuroethology
Stefan Leutgeb, PhD, Chair, Neurobiology
Jens Lykke-Andersen, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Graduate Teaching
Eduardo R. Macagno, PhD, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1992)
Robert Malinow, PhD, Shiley Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, National Academy of Sciences (2012), National Academy of Medicine (2015)
Therese Markow, PhD, Emerita
Stephen Mayfield, PhD, Codirector of Food & Fuel for the 21st Century (2018–2022), Director, California Center for Algae Biotechnology
William J. McGinnis, PhD, Emeritus, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2010), National Academy of Sciences (2019)
S. Mauricio Montal, MD, PhD, Emeritus
Cornelis Murre, PhD, Chair, Molecular Biology
Xuong Nguyen-Huu, PhD, Emeritus
James C. Nieh, PhD, Associate Dean, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Royal Entomological Society (2017)
Maho Niwa Rosen, PhD
Karen Oegema, PhD
Amy Pasquinelli, PhD
Gentry Patrick, PhD, Director of Mentorship and Diversity
Lorraine Pillus, PhD, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017), American Academy of Microbiology (2018)
Joseph A. Pogliano, PhD, American Academy of Microbiology (2019)
Kit J. Pogliano, PhD, Dean, Richard C. Atkinson Endowed Chair, American Academy of Microbiology (2009)
James W. Posakony, PhD, Emeritus, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011)
Paul A. Price, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Morton Printz, PhD, Emeritus
Samara Reck-Peterson, PhD, HHMI Investigator
Kaustuv Roy, PhD
Milton H. Saier, PhD, American Academy of Microbiology (1999)
Immo E. Scheffler, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching
Eric A. Schmelz, PhD
Robert J. Schmidt, PhD, Emeritus
Julian I. Schroeder, PhD, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), Torrey Mesa Research Institute Chair in Plant Science (2015), National Academy of Sciences (2015), Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences (2017)
Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2000), Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2006), National Academy of Medicine (2008), National Academy of Sciences (2010), National Academy of Engineering (2011), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2013)
Allen I. Selverston, PhD, Emeritus
Jonathan Shurin, PhD, Chair, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
Douglas W. Smith, PhD, Emeritus
Laurie G. Smith, PhD, Paul D. Saltman Chair in Science Education
Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Atkinson Family Chair, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002), National Academy of Sciences (2013)
Suresh Subramani, PhD, Emeritus, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Molecular Biology
Gurol Suel, PhD
Xin Sun, PhD
David Traver, PhD
Emily Troemel, PhD
Sandra L. Vehrencamp, PhD, Emerita
Jing Wang, PhD
Steven A. Wasserman, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
James Wilhelm, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Education
Christopher J. Wills, PhD, Emeritus
Yang Xu, PhD, Emeritus
Michael P. Yaffe, PhD, Emeritus
Martin F. Yanofsky, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (2008), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
Deborah Yelon, PhD, Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology, Herbert Stern Chair in Biology
Juan Yguerabide, PhD, Emeritus
Dong-Er Zhang, PhD, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018)
Yunde Zhao, PhD
Yimin Zou, PhD
Elina Zuniga, PhD, American Academy of Microbiology (2021)
Associate Professors
Brenda Bloodgood, PhD
Willie C. Brown, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Career Distinguished Teaching Award
Kimberly Cooper, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology (Professorship VIII) (2021–2026)
Rachel Dutton, PhD
Nan Hao, PhD
Enfu Hui, PhD
Amy Kiger, PhD
Byungkook Lim, PhD
Li-Fan Lu, PhD
Justin Meyer, PhD
Ramón Piñón, PhD, Emeritus
Jose Pruneda-Paz, PhD
Pamela Reinagel, PhD
Scott Rifkin, PhD
Chih-Ying Su, PhD
Elizabeth Villa, PhD, HHMI Investigator
Jill Wildonger, PhD
Assistant Professors
Johnatan Aljadeff, PhD
Mikio Aoi, PhD
Matthew Banghart, PhD
Andrew Barton, PhD
Marcus Benna, PhD
Heidi Cook-Andersen, MD, PhD
Matthew Daugherty, PhD
Alexandra Dickinson, PhD
Andreas Ernst, PhD
Emma Farley, PhD
Stacey Glasgow, PhD
Alisa Huffaker, PhD
Sara Jackrel, PhD
Sergey Kryazhimskiy, PhD
Matthew Lovett-Barron, PhD
Cressida Madigan, PhD
Hiruy Meharena, PhD
Andrew Muroyama, PhD
Sonya Neal, PhD
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD
Michael Perry, PhD
Aspen Reese, PhD
Diana Rennison, PhD
Fabian Rivera, PhD
Cory Root, PhD
Alistair Russell, PhD
Teaching Professors
Lakshmi Chilukuri, PhD, Provost of Sixth College
Jon Christopher Armour, MD, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Aaron Coleman, PhD
Barry Grant, PhD
Stephanie Mel, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards—Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Gabriele K. Wienhausen, PhD, Emerita, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
Associate Teaching Professors
Madeline Butler, PhD, Emerita
Kathleen French, PhD, Emerita
Stanley Lo, PhD
Lisa McDonnell, PhD
Sarah Stockwell, PhD
Ella Tour, PhD
Assistant Teaching Professors
James Cooke, PhD
LaTisha Hammond, PhD
Ashley Juavinett, PhD
Clara Meaders, PhD
Liam Mueller, PhD
Melinda Owens, PhD
Katherine Petrie, PhD
Keefe Reuther, PhD
Adjunct Faculty
Nicola Allen, PhD
Kenta Asahina, PhD
Janelle Ayres, PhD
Eiman Azim, PhD
Wolfgang Busch, PhD
Seunghyon Choe, PhD
Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD
Jesse Dixon, PhD
Joseph Ecker, PhD
Ronald M. Evans, PhD
Fred Gage, PhD
Martyn Goulding, PhD
Sung Han, PhD
Diana Hargreaves, PhD
Martin Hetzer, PhD
Anthony R. Hunter, PhD
Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD
Katherine Jones, PhD
Susan Kaech, PhD
Jan Karlseder, PhD
Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD
Julie Law, PhD
Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD
Vicki Lundblad, PhD
Dmitry Lyumkis, PhD
Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD
Clodagh O’Shea, PhD
Satchidananda Panda, PhD
Samuel Pfaff, PhD
Michael Geoffrey Rosenfeld, MD
Oliver A. Ryder, PhD
Alan Saghatelian, PhD
Moselio Schaechter, PhD
Gerald Shadel, PhD
Reuben Shaw, PhD
Andrew Shiau, PhD
Christina Towers, PhD
Kay Tye, PhD
Geoffrey M. Wahl, PhD
Carl Ware, PhD
Ye Zheng, PhD