Departments
- Anthropology
- Biochemistry
- Bioengineering
- Biomedical Sciences
- Botany & Plant Sciences
- Chemical & Environmental Engineering
- Chemistry
- Computer Science & Engineering
- Entomology
- Evolution, Ecology & Origins Biology
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Microbiology & Plant Pathology
- Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology
- Nematology
- Psychology
- Statistics
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Anthropology

Sang-Hee Lee
Associate Professor; Department of Anthropology Chair
Areas of expertise: Human evolution; longevity; brain evolution; sexual dimorphism; data resampling; time-series conversion of images
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2443
E-mail: sang-hee.lee@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~shlee/ open_in_new
Curriculum Vitae
Biochemistry

Sihem Cheloufi
Assistant Professor in Biochemistry
Areas of expertise:
epigenetic pathways, chromatin remodeling and RNA regulation with cellular reprograming and differentiation systems
Contact Info:
Phone: (951) 827-3796
Email: sihem.cheloufi@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://www.cheloufilab.org/
Paul B Larsen
Professor of Biochemistry & Biochemist
Research areas: molecular biology, plant biochemistry, signal transduction
Contact Info:
E-mail: paul.larsen@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/paull

Ernest Martinez
Professor of Biochemistry; Program Director, MARC U-STAR Program
Areas of expertise: human STAGA complex, transcription regulation by c-Myc and E2F1; role of chromatin structure, TAFIIs, and novel cofactors in promoter selectivity
Contact Info:
Website: https://stemcells.ucr.edu/stem-cell-center/faculty/ernest-martinez
Tel: (951) 827-2031
E-mail:ernest.martinez@ucr.edu
Jernej Murn
Asst. Professor in Biochemistry
Areas of Interest: RBPs in post-transcriptional mRNA processing, processing of non-coding RNAs by RNases P and MRP, epitranscriptome tissue-specific regulation, method development for circular RNA purification, in vivo interactions between RBPs with nascent RNA, localizing translation
Contact Info:
Phone: (951) 827-4267
Email: jernej.murn@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://www.murnlab.info/
Maria Ninova
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Research areas: epigenetic regulation, small non-coding RNAs, transposon control in germ cells; drosophila melanogaster model system: mechanism of piRNA-mediated silencing, regulation of gene expression by H3K9me3, developmental regulation heterochromatin
Contact Info:
Email: maria.ninova@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://ninovalab.org/

John Jefferson Perry
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Areas of interest: defining molecular mechanisms of key protein complexes with pathological links to cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. Focused on SUMO and ubiquitin pathway proteins in signal transduction and genome stability. Identification of compounds that can selectively modulate activity of these protein complexes.
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3842
E-mail: jeff.perry@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jjperry

Jikui Song
Professor of Biochemistry
Research areas: mechanistic understanding of mammalian DNA methylation, pathogen-host interaction influences on viral infection and cellular activities
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4221
E-mail: jikui.song@ucr.edu
Lab Website: Song Lab-Structural Biology of Epigenetics
Bioengineering

Kevin J Freedman
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Research areas: micro and nanoscale technology to study biological systems, nanofabrication, applications in biophysics, genetics, and healthcare
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4028
E-mail kevin.freedman@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://nanoscalebiology.engr.ucr.edu/

Jiayu Liao
Professor of Bioengineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Chemical Biology; Signal Transduction Pathways; Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier Ligase; G Protein-coupled Receptors; Fatty Acid Induced Insulin Resistance; High-throughput Screening; Bioinformatics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6240
E-mail jliao@engr.ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jiayul

Victor G J Rodgers
Professor of Bioengineering; Faculty Graduate Advisor
Area(s) of Expertise: Biotransport; Bioreactions in Cells; Thermodynamics of Concentrated Proteins in Solution
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6241
E-mail vrodgers@engr.ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://b2k.engr.ucr.edu/
Tingting Xiang
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Areas of Expertise: Host-microbe interactions, endosymbiosis, coral, algae, genomics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-1482
E-mail: tingting.xiang2@ucr.edu
Faculty Profile: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/txiang
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/view/thexianglab
Biomedical Sciences

Monica Carson
Chair, Division of Biomedical Sciences;
S. Sue Johnson Presidential Endowed Chair
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6089
E-mail monica.carson@ucr.edu
Website: https://cgni.ucr.edu/

Iryna Ethel
Professor of Biomedical Sciences; Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Research areas: neural network development and maintenance in the brain, defining molecular and cellular mechanisms that form dendritic spines and their plasticity in normal versus diseased brains
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2186
E-mail iryna.ethell@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://ethell.ucr.edu/

David Lo
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Science; Senior Associate Dean of Research
M cell differentiation, method development of transgenic fluorescent reporter for in vivo M cell development, confocal microscopy to identify transcytosis machinery in endocytosis and bacterial particle transport by intestinal epithelial cells and M cells, needle-free vaccines, air quality and health
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4553
E-mail david.lo@ucr.edu
Website: http://mucosalvaccine.ucr.edu/

Meera Nair
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Research areas: how macrophages contribute to mucosal immunity and inflammation to helminths (parasitic worms), elucidate the functional significance of Resistin-Like Molecules (RELM) in these infection models, identify new pathways of helminth-host communication such as endocannabinoids.
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7734
E-mail meera.nair@ucr.edu

Maurizio Pellecchia
Daniel Hays Endowed Chair in Cancer Research;
Director of Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine;
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Research areas: design, synthesis, and evaluation of novel pharmacological tools in cancer, neurodegeneration, and other disease areas, using innovative drug delivery approaches. Method development for protein-protein interactions as targets for drug discovery.
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7829
E-mail maurizio.pellecchia@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://www.armidalabs.com/home

Emma Wilson
Associate Dean for Graduate Division;
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Research areas: immune response in brain following Toxoplasma gondii infection
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4328
E-mail emma.wilson@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/emmaw

Sika Zheng
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences;
Graduate Advisor of the BMSC Graduate Program
Research areas: RNA coding of phenotypic variability and cell-specific attributes, nonsense-mediated RNA decay, alternative splicing,
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7670
E-mail sika.zheng@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://zhenglab.ucr.edu/
Botany & Plant Sciences

Julia Bailey-Serres
Distinguished Professor of Genetics;
Director of Center for Plant Cell Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Gene Regulation; Translational Control; Abiotic Stress Signaling/Response; Low Oxygen Sensing; Flooding/Submergence; Genome Technologies
Contact Info:
E-mail: julia.bailey@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://www.baileyserreslab.org/

Meng Chen
Professor of Cell Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Light Signaling in Plants; Nuclear Organization; Chloroplast Development
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5635
E-mail: meng.chen@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://www.plasticgenome.org/

Xuemei Chen
Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Development; Small Regulatory RNAs
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3988
E-mail: xuemei.chen@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://xchenlab.ucr.edu/

Timothy Close
Professor of Genetics and Geneticist, Emeritus
Contact Info:
(951) 827-3318
E-mail: timothy.close@ucr.edu
Website: https://ucanr.edu/?facultyid=403

Sean Cutler
Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Chemical Genomics; Analysis and Exploitation of Natural Variation Using Small Molecules
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6990
E-mail: sean.cutler@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.thecutlerlab.org/

Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh
Director of Institute for Integrative Genome Biology
Ernst and Helen Leibacher Endowed Chair
Professor of Molecular Biochemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Biochemistry
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6370
E-mail: katayoon.dehesh@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://kdehesh-lab.ucr.edu/

Norman Ellstrand
Distinguished Professor and Geneticist
Applied plant population genetics, especially the role of gene flow in the risks of transgenic crops and plant conservation
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4194
E-mail: norman.ellstrand@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ellstrand

Thomas Eulgem
Professor and Plant Cell Biologist
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Immune Biology; Defense Signaling; Gene Regulation; Transcriptomics; Functional Genomics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7740
E-mail: thomas.eulgem@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/teulgem

Juan Pablo Giraldo
Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Physiology with a Nanobiotechnology Approach: Photosynthesis, Vascular Transport, Nanosensors, Nanobionics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3583
E-mail: juanpablo.giraldo@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~juanpg/people.html

Thomas Girke
Professor of Bioinformatics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 732-7072
E-mail: thomas.girke@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://girke.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/

Venugopala Reddy Gonehal
Professor and Plant Cell Biologist
Area(s) of Expertise: Gene Networks; Live Imaging; Stem Cells; Development
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3482
E-mail: venu.gonehal@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://venureddylab.bitbucket.io/

Anthony Huang
Professor and Plant Cell Biologist
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Cell and Developmental Biology; Flowering; Seed Lipids and Proteins; Genetic Engineering of Seed Lipids and Proteins; Flower Anther Cell Biology and Development
Contact Info:
Professor of the Graduate Division and Botanist
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/anthony.huang

Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia
Professor of Genetics
Area(s) of Expertise: Biostatistics; Quantitative Genetics; Genomic Selection; Bioinformatics; Cancer Genomics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3987
E-mail: arthur.jia@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/jia-lab-ucr/home?authuser=0

Daniel Koenig
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant genetics, genomics and evolution
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3212
E-mail: daniel.koenig@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/koeniglab

Bai-lian Larry Li
Professor of Plant Ecology
Area(s) of Expertise: Quantitative Plant Ecology; Ecological Complexity and Modeling; Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology; Systems Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Computational Biology; Ecological Informatics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4776
E-mail: bai-lian.li@ucr.edu
Website: https://ucanr.edu/?facultyid=1336

Amy Litt
Associate Professor of Plant Evolution and Development
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Evolution; Plant Evolutionary Development; Plant Morphology
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2113
E-mail: amy.litt@ucr.edu

Alan McHughen
Professor of CE;
Biotechnology Specialist and Geneticist
Areas of expertise: plant genome, genetics, and genetic mechanisms; plant biological efficiency and abiotic stresses affecting plants; plant management systems; food and non-food products: development, processing, quality, and delivery; economics, markets, international trade and development, domestic policy analysis
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7532
E-mail: alan.mchughen@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://mchughenlab.ucr.edu/
Paul Nabity
Assistant Professor and Plant-Insect Ecologist
Area(s) of Expertise: Ecology and evolution of plant-insect interactions
Contact Info:
Phone: (951) 827-3927
Email: paul.nabity@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.nabitylab.org/

Dawn Nagel
Assistant Professor of Genetics and Genomics
Area(s) of Expertise: Circadian Clock, Temperature Regulation, Transcriptional Networks
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4425
E-mail: dawn.nagel@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://dawnnagel.wixsite.com/nagelucr

David Nelson
Associate Professor of Genetics
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant hormones, signaling, molecular genetics, germination
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4397
E-mail: david.nelson@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://nelsonlab.ucr.edu/index.html

Eugene A Nothnagel
Professor of Plant Physiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Arabinogalactan-protein Structure and Function; Plant Cell Wall Structure and Function; Industrial Applications of Arabinogalactan-proteins in Gums; Biofuels from Cell Wall Polymers; Teaching
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3777
E-mail: eugene.nothnagel@ucr.edu
Website: https://ucanr.edu/sites/ucanr/Find_People/Academic_Directory/?facultyid=1681

Natasha Raikhel
Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology, Emerita
Area(s) of Expertise: Endosomal and Vacuolar Trafficking in Plant Cells
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6370
E-mail: natasha.raikhel@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/nraikhel
Chandrika Ramadugu
Assistant Project Scientist
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4736
E-mail: chandrika.ramadugu@ucr.edu

Carolyn Rasmussen
Associate Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Cell Division in Plants; Live Cell Imaging
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4415
Email: carolyn.rasmussen@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://rasmussenlab.weebly.com/

Mikeal Roose
Professor and Geneticist, Emeritus
Areas of expertise: Plant breeding, especially citrus; genomics and evolution of citrus and asparagus; UCR asparagus breeding program
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4137
E-mail: mikeal.roose@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/roose

Danelle Seymour
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Genetics; Genomics; Breeding of Citrus
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4441
E-mail: danelle.seymour@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://www.seymour-lab.com/details

Patricia Springer
Professor of Genetics
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Developmental Biology; Molecular Biology; Gene Regulation; Leaf Development
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5785
E-mail: patricia.springer@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/pspringer

Jaimie Van Norman
Assistant Professor of Plant Cell & Developmental Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Biology; Root Development; Tissue and Organ Patterning; Intercellular Signaling
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2134
E-mail: jaimie.vannorman@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jaimiev

Linda Walling
Professor of Genetics
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Responses and Resistance Mechanisms to Whiteflies; Role of Leucine Aminopeptidase in Retrograde Signaling in Response to Biotic Stress
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4687
E-mail: linda.walling@ucr.edu
Website:
https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/lwalling
https://ucanr.edu/?facultyid=2384

Susan Wessler
Neil A. and Rochelle A. Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovations in Science Education;
Distinguished Professor of Genetics;
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor;
Home Secretary, U.S.National Academy of Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Transposable Elements in Plants with a Focus on the Characterization of Active Transposable Elements and a Determination of How They Contribute to Genome Evolution and Adaptation
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7866
E-mail: susan.wessler@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://wesslerlab.ucr.edu/

Zhenbiao Yang
Professor of Cell Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Cell Biology; G Protein-mediated Signaling Networks and Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Polarity and Cell Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7351
E-mail: zhenbiao.yang@ucr.edu
Article: https://iigb.ucr.edu/news/2021/11/30/zhenbiao-yangs-research-plant-growth-published-nature-journal
Chemical & Environmental Engineering

Harvey Blanch
Professor of the Graduate Division
Area(s) of Expertise: Biological Engineering; Biothermodynamics; Metabolic Engineering; Enzyme Engineering
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6445
E-mail harvey.blanch@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/hwbgrp/

Xin Ge
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Therapeutic Antibody Discovery and Engineering; Directed Evolution of Enzymes, Metabolic Pathways and Microbial Stains; Next-Generation DNA Sequencing and Bioinformatics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6229
E-mail xin.ge@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://gelab.engr.ucr.edu/

Robert Jinkerson
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Algae; biofuels and bioproducts; bioinformatics and systems biology; coral-algal symbiosis; endosymbiosis
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2271
E-mail robert.jinkerson@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://jinkersonlab.engr.ucr.edu/

Yanran Li
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Synthetic Biology, Natural Products, Metabolic Engineering, Yeast Engineering
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-1480
E-mail yanran.li@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://liyanranlab.weebly.com/people.html
Yujie Men
Associate Professor of Chemical/Environmental Engineering
Areas of expertise: microbial cleavage of C-F bonds in organofluorine: mechanisms, structure specificity, integration with physicochemical approaches; fate of antimicrobial agents and development of antibiotic resistance in the environment
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2820
E-mail: yujie.men@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://environmicrobe.weebly.com/

Ian Wheeldon
Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Protein and Metabolic Engineering; Biocatalysis; Synthetic Biology
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2471
E-mail ian.wheeldon@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://intra.engr.ucr.edu/~iwheeldon/home.html
Chemistry

Chia-en Chang
Professor of Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Modeling; Computational Biology/Chemistry
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7263
E-mail: chia-en.chang@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://chemcha-gpu0.ucr.edu/

Joseph Genereux
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Research areas: quantitative proteomics to characterize protein conformation and tracking, stress and stress-responsive signaling effects on proteome molecular properties
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3759
E-mail: joseph.genereux@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://genereuxlab.ucr.edu/

Ryan Julian
Professor of Chemistry
Areas of expertise: aging, long-lived proteins, protein structure and modifications, method development for mass spec based tools for analyzing molecular chemistry and structure
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3958
E-mail: ryan.julian@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/jlab/home