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Biological Sciences, School of

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All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

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, EmeritusNational 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