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, Emeritus, 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)
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, Emeritus, National 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