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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

Rommie Amaro, PhD

Tim Baker, PhD, Emeritus

Eric Bennett, PhD

Darwin K. Berg, PhD, Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2018)

Ethan Bier, PhD

Jack W. Bradbury, PhD, Emeritus

Steve Briggs, PhD, National Academy of Sciences (2000), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2007)

Stuart Brody, PhD, Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2022)

Lin Chao, PhD

Andrew Chisholm, PhD

Maarten J. Chrispeels, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (1996), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2003), American Society of Plant Biologists (2007)

Elsa Cleland, PhD, Chair, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Kimberly Cooper, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology (Professorship VIII) (2021–2026)

Kevin Corbett, PhD

Nigel M. Crawford, PhD, Emeritus

Matthew Daugherty, PhD

Michael David, PhD

Arshad Desai, PhD, Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022)

Richard W. Dutton, PhD, Emeritus

Mark Estelle, PhD, National Academy of Sciences (2007)

Gen-Sheng Feng, PhD

Richard A. Firtel, PhD, Emeritus

Douglass J. Forbes, PhD, Emerita

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 Society for Microbiology (2000)

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

Nan Hao, PhD

Jeff Hasty, PhD, Jacobs School of Engineering II Endowed Chair

Masaki Hayashi, PhD, Emeritus

Stephen M. Hedrick, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (2024)

Donald R. Helinski, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (1980), American Association for the Advancement of Science (1989), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1987)

Ryan Hibbs, PhD, Chair, Neurobiology

David Holway, PhD

Terrence Hwa, PhD, American Society for 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, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2019), National Academy of Sciences (2022), National Academy of Medicine (2024)

James T. Kadonaga, PhD, Amylin Endowed Chair in Lifesciences Education and Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science (1993), American Society for Microbiology (1995), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017), National Academy of Sciences (2022)

David Kleinfeld, PhD, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), American Society for Microbiology (2015), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015)

Joshua R. Kohn, PhD, Emeritus

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)

Jill Leutgeb, PhD, Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship in Neuroethology

Stefan Leutgeb, PhD,

Byungkook Lim, PhD

Li-Fan Lu, PhD

Jens Lykke-Andersen, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Graduate Teaching

Robert Malinow, PhD, Emeritus, National Academy of Sciences (2012), National Academy of Medicine (2015)

Therese Markow, PhD, Emerita

Stephen Mayfield, PhD, EmeritusCodirector 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)

Justin Meyer, PhD

S. Mauricio Montal, MD, PhD, Emeritus

Cornelis Murre, PhD

Xuong Nguyen-Huu, PhD, Emeritus

James C. Nieh, PhD, Associate Dean, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Maho Niwa Rosen, PhD

Karen Oegema, PhD, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022)

Amy Pasquinelli, PhD

Gentry Patrick, PhD, Kavli-Rastetter Family Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Neurobiology, UCSD Excellence in Stewardship Award (2021)

Lorraine Pillus, PhD, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2017), American Society for Microbiology (2018)

Joseph A. Pogliano, PhD, American Society for Microbiology (2019)

Kit J. Pogliano, PhD, Dean, Richard C. Atkinson Endowed Chair, American Society for Microbiology (2009), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2023)

James W. Posakony, PhD, Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2011)

Paul A. Price, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Morton Printz, PhD, Emeritus

Kaustuv Roy, PhD

Milton H. Saier, PhD, American Society for Microbiology (1999)

Robert J. Schmidt, PhD, Emeritus

Julian I. Schroeder, PhD, 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), 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

Douglas W. Smith, PhD, Emeritus

Laurie G. Smith, PhD, Emerita, Paul D. Saltman Chair in Science Education

Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate Division, Atkinson Family Chair, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2000), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002), National Academy of Sciences (2013)

Chih-Ying Su, PhD

Suresh Subramani, PhD, Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate Division, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Molecular Biology

Gurol Suel, PhD

Xin Sun, PhD

Emily Troemel, PhD

Sandra L. Vehrencamp, PhD, Emerita

Elizabeth Villa, PhD, HHMI Investigator

Jing Wang, PhD, Emeritus

Steven A. Wasserman, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Jill Wildonger, PhD

James Wilhelm, PhD, Associate Dean of Education

Christopher J. Wills, PhD, Emeritus

Dominik Wodarz, PhD

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, Herbert Stern Chair in Biology

Juan Yguerabide, PhD, Emeritus

Dong-Er Zhang, PhD, Chair, Molecular Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2018)

Yunde Zhao, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology, American Society of Plant Biologists (2022), American Association for the Advancement of Science (2022)

Yimin Zou, PhD

Elina Zuniga, PhD, American Society for Microbiology (2021)

Associate Professors

Matthew Banghart, PhD

Andrew Barton, PhD

Brenda Bloodgood, PhD

Willie C. Brown, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Career Distinguished Teaching Award

Heidi Cook-Andersen, MD, PhD

Emma Farley, PhD

Alisa Huffaker, PhD, Maartin J. Chrispeels Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Plant Biology

Enfu Hui, PhD

Juliana Idoyaga, PhD

Amy Kiger, PhD

Sergey Kryazhimskiy, PhD

Sonya Neal, PhD, Freeman Hrabowski Scholar (2023)

Ramón Piñón, PhD, Emeritus

Jose Pruneda-Paz, PhD

Pamela Reinagel, PhD

Scott Rifkin, PhD

Assistant Professors

Johnatan Aljadeff, PhD

Mikio Aoi, PhD

Vineet Augustine, PhD

Marcus Benna, PhD

Scott Biering, PhD

Alex Chaim, PhD

Shermin de Silva, PhD

Alexandra Dickinson, PhD

Andreas Ernst, PhD

Stacey Glasgow, PhD

Christina Hueschen, PhD

Sara Jackrel, PhD

Christopher Lee, PhD

Matthew Lovett-Barron, PhD

Cressida Madigan, PhD

Uri Manor, PhD

Hiruy Meharena, PhD

Andrew Muroyama, PhD

Vu Nguyen, PhD

Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD

Michael Perry, PhD

Diana Rennison, PhD

Nabora Reyes de Barboza, PhD

Fabian Rivera Chavez, PhD

Patrick Rohner, PhD

Cory Root, PhD

Noah Rose, PhD

Alistair Russell, PhD

Monique Smith, PhD, Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion Endowed Professorship

Justin Trotter, PhD

Teaching Professors

Jon Christopher Armour, MD, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Lakshmi Chilukuri, PhD, Provost of Sixth College

Aaron Coleman, PhD

Barry Grant, PhD

Stanley Lo, PhD

Lisa McDonnell, PhD, Revelle College Faculty Fellow (2022)

Stephanie Mel, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards—Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Ella Tour, PhD

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

James Cooke, PhD

Kathleen French, PhD, Emerita

Ashley Juavinett, PhD

Clara Meaders, PhD

Muriel Nesbitt, PhD, Emerita

Melinda Owens, PhD

Katherine Petrie, PhD

Sarah Stockwell, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professors

Christopher Day, PhD

Matthew Flagg, PhD

Ivonne Gonzalez Gamboa, PhD

LaTisha Hammond, PhD

Isabella Maita, PhD

Liam Mueller, PhD

Stacy Ochoa, PhD

Keefe Reuther, PhD

Mingyu Yang, PhD

Adjunct Faculty

Nicola Allen, PhD

Kenta Asahina, PhD

Janelle Ayres, PhD

Eiman Azim, PhD

Daniel Bayless, PhD

Wolfgang Busch, PhD

Edward Callaway, PhD

Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD

Jesse Dixon, PhD

Diane Ebert-May, PhD

Joseph Ecker, PhD

Danielle Engle, PhD

Ronald M. Evans, PhD

Fred Gage, PhD

Sung Han, PhD

Diana Hargreaves, PhD

Daniel Hollern, PhD

Anthony R. Hunter, PhD

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD

Susan Kaech, PhD

Jan Karlseder, PhD

Agnieszka Kendrick, PhD

Pallav Kosuri, PhD

Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD

Julie Law, PhD

Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD

Dmitry Lyumkis, PhD

Christian Metallo, PhD

Todd P. Michael, PhD

Lena Mueller, PhD

Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD

Satchidananda Panda, PhD

Samuel Pfaff, PhD

Deepshika Ramanan, PhD

Michael Rosenfeld, MD

Oliver A. Ryder, PhD

Alan Saghatelian, PhD

Moselio Schaechter, PhD, Emeritus

Gerald Shadel, PhD

Tatyana Sharpee, PhD

Reuben Shaw, PhD

Andrew Shiau, PhD

Christina Towers, PhD

David Traver, PhD

Kay Tye, PhD

Ye Zheng, PhD