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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, Fellow of the 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), Fellow of the 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), Fellow of the 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

Michael David, PhD

Arshad Desai, PhD, 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 Academy of 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

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)

Ryan Hibbs, PhD

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), National Academy of Sciences (2022)

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), National Academy of Sciences (2022)

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, 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)

Andres Leschziner, PhD

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)

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, 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)

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

Douglas W. Smith, PhD, Emeritus

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

Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Emeritus, Professor of the Graduate Division, 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, Professor of the Graduate Division, 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

Elizabeth Villa, PhD, HHMI Investigator

Jing Wang, PhD, Chair, Neurobiology

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

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, Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology, Herbert Stern Chair in Biology

Juan Yguerabide, PhD, Emeritus

Dong-Er Zhang, PhD, Chair, Molecular Biology, Fellow of the 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 Academy of Microbiology (2021)

Associate Professors

Matthew Banghart, PhD

Andrew Barton, PhD

Brenda Bloodgood, PhD

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

Matthew Daugherty, PhD

Alisa Huffaker, PhD

Enfu Hui, PhD

Juliana Idoyaga, PhD

Amy Kiger, PhD

Sergey Kryazhimskiy, PhD

Justin Meyer, PhD

Sonya Neal, PhD

Ramón Piñón, PhD, Emeritus

Jose Pruneda-Paz, PhD

Pamela Reinagel, PhD

Scott Rifkin, PhD

Chih-Ying Su, PhD

Jill Wildonger, PhD

Assistant Professors

Johnatan Aljadeff, PhD

Mikio Aoi, PhD

Vineet Augustine, PhD

Marcus Benna, PhD

Scott Biering, PhD

Alex Chaim, PhD

Heidi Cook-Andersen, MD, PhD

Shermin de Silva, PhD

Alexandra Dickinson, PhD

Andreas Ernst, PhD

Emma Farley, PhD

Stacey Glasgow, PhD

Christina Hueschen, PhD

Sara Jackrel, 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

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

Muriel Nesbitt, PhD, Emerita

Katherine Petrie, PhD

Sarah Stockwell, PhD

Assistant Teaching Professors

Ivonne Gonzalez Gamboa, PhD

LaTisha Hammond, PhD

Isabella Maita, PhD

Clara Meaders, PhD

Liam Mueller, PhD

Stacy Ochoa, PhD

Melinda Owens, PhD

Keefe Reuther, PhD

Adjunct Faculty

Nicola Allen, PhD

Kenta Asahina, PhD

Janelle Ayres, PhD

Eiman Azim, 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

Martin Hetzer, PhD

Daniel Hollern, PhD

Anthony R. Hunter, PhD

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD

Susan Kaech, PhD

Jan Karlseder, PhD

Pallav Kosuri, PhD

Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD

Julie Law, PhD

Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD

Dmitry Lyumkis, PhD

Christian Metallo, PhD

Todd P. Michael, PhD

Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD

Clodagh O’Shea, 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

Kay Tye, PhD

Geoffrey M. Wahl, PhD

Ye Zheng, PhD