Biological Sciences, Division of
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Professors
Susan Ackerman, PhD, HHMI Investigator, Stephen W. Kuffler Chair in Biology
Eric Allen, PhD
Tim Baker, PhD, Emeritus
Darwin K. Berg, PhD, Emeritus
Ethan Bier, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology
Jack W. Bradbury, PhD, Emeritus
Steve Briggs, PhD, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Stuart Brody, PhD, Emeritus
Lin Chao, PhD
Andrew Chisholm, PhD, Associate Dean
Maarten J. Chrispeels, PhD, Emeritus
Elsa Cleland, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Nigel M. Crawford, PhD, Emeritus
Michael David, PhD
Russell F. Doolittle, PhD, Emeritus
Richard W. Dutton, PhD, Emeritus
Mark Estelle, PhD, Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship VI in Cell and Developmental Biology
Gen-Sheng Feng, PhD
Richard A. Firtel, PhD, Emeritus
Douglass J. Forbes, PhD
E. Peter Geiduschek, PhD, Emeritus
Timothy Gentner, PhD
Michael E. Gilpin, PhD, Emeritus
James Golden, PhD
Susan Golden, PhD, HHMI Professor, Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair III
Ananda Goldrath, PhD, Chair, Molecular Biology, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship V in Molecular Biology
Melvin H. Green, PhD, Emeritus
Ralph Greenspan, PhD
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, Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair VII
Donald R. Helinski, PhD, Emeritus
David Holway, PhD, Chair, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Section
Terrence Hwa, PhD
Yishi Jin, PhD, Chair, Neurobiology, Junior Seau Foundation Endowed Chair in Traumatic Brain Injury
James T. Kadonaga, PhD, Amylin Endowed Chair in Lifesciences Education and Research
David Kleinfeld, PhD
Joshua R. Kohn, PhD
Takaki Komiyama, PhD
William B. Kristan, Jr., PhD, Emeritus, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching
Russell Lande, PhD, Emeritus
Andres Leschziner, PhD
Jill Leutgeb, PhD, Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship in Neuroethology
Stefan Leutgeb, PhD
Dan L. Lindsley, PhD, Emeritus
Jens Lykke-Andersen, PhD
Eduardo R. Macagno, PhD
Robert Malinow, PhD, Shiley Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research, National Academy of Science (2012)
Therese Markow, PhD, Emerita
Stephen Mayfield, PhD, Director of Food & Fuel for the 21st Century (2018–2022)
William J. McGinnis, 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
Amy Pasquinelli, PhD
Gentry Patrick, PhD, Director of Mentorship and Diversity
Lorraine Pillus, PhD
Joseph A. Pogliano, PhD
Kit J. Pogliano, PhD, Dean, Richard C. Atkinson Endowed Chair
James W. Posakony, PhD
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
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, Torrey Mesa Research Institute Chair in Plant Science (2015)
Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD
Allen I. Selverston, PhD, Emeritus
Jonathan Shurin, PhD
Douglas W. Smith, PhD, Emeritus
Laurie G. Smith, PhD
Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Atkinson Family Chair, Director of Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind, 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
Christopher J. Wills, PhD, Emeritus
Flossie Wong-Staal, PhD, Emerita
Yang Xu, PhD
Michael P. Yaffe, PhD, Emeritus
Martin F. Yanofsky, PhD, Paul D. Saltman Chair in Science Education
Deborah Yelon, PhD, Herbert Stern Chair in Biology
Juan Yguerabide, PhD, Emeritus
Dong-Er Zhang, PhD
Yunde Zhao, PhD
Yimin Zou, PhD
Elina Zuniga, PhD
Associate Professors
Omar Akbari, PhD
Eric Bennett, PhD
Brenda Bloodgood, PhD
Willie C. Brown, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Career Distinguished Teaching Award
Nan Hao, PhD
Suckjoon Jun, PhD
Amy Kiger, PhD
Carolyn Kurle, PhD
Byungkook Lim, PhD
Li-Fan Lu, PhD
Ramón Piñón, PhD, Emeritus
Jose Pruneda-Paz, PhD
Pamela Reinagel, PhD
Scott Rifkin, PhD
James Wilhelm, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Education
Assistant Professors
Matthew Banghart, PhD
Andrew Barton, PhD
Marcus Benna, PhD
Heidi Cook-Andersen, MD, PhD
Kimberly Cooper, PhD
Matthew Daugherty, PhD
Rachel Dutton, PhD
Emma Farley, PhD
Stacey Glasgow, PhD
Alisa Huffaker, PhD
Enfu Hui, PhD
Sara Jackrel, PhD
Sergey Kryazhimskiy, PhD
Shannon Lauberth, PhD
Cressida Madigan, PhD
Justin Meyer, PhD
Sonya Neal, PhD
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD
Michael Perry, PhD
Aspen Reese, PhD
Diana Rennison, PhD
Cory Root, PhD
Alistair Russell, PhD
Chih-Ying Su, PhD
Elizabeth Villa, PhD
Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment
Gabriele K. Wienhausen, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching
Lecturers with Security of Employment
Jon Christopher Armour, MD, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Madeline Butler, PhD, Emerita
Lakshmi Chilukuri, PhD
Aaron Coleman, PhD
Kathleen French, PhD, Emerita
Barry Grant, PhD
Lisa McDonnell, PhD
Stephanie Mel, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards—Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
Ella Tour, PhD
Lecturers with Potential for Security of Employment
James Cooke, PhD
Ashley Juavinett, PhD
Stanley Lo, PhD
Melinda Owens, PhD
Katherine Petrie, PhD
Sarah Stockwell, PhD
Adjunct Faculty
Nicola Allen, PhD
Kenta Asahina, PhD
Janelle Ayres, PhD
Eiman Azim, PhD
Wolfgang Busch, PhD
Hu Cang, PhD
Seunghyon Choe, PhD
Joanne Chory, PhD
Sreekanth Chalasani, 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
Xin Jin, PhD
Katherine Jones, PhD
Susan Kaech, PhD
Jan Karlseder, PhD
Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD
Julie Law, PhD
Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD
Bjorn Lillemeier, 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
Kay Tye, PhD
Geoffrey M. Wahl, PhD
Carl Ware, PhD
Ye Zheng, PhD