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/
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

Michael C. Pirrung
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Microarrays; Chemical Genetics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2722
E-mail: michael.pirrung@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/pirrung/

Yinsheng Wang
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Oxidative DNA Damage; Covalent Modifications of Proteins
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2700
E-mail: yinsheng.wang@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://wanglab.ucr.edu/

Wenwan Zhong
Professor of Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Bioanalytical Chemistry; Chromatographic Separation; High-throughput Screening; Biosensing
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4925
E-mail: wenwan.zhong@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~wenwanz/
Computer Science & Engineering

Tao Jiang
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science & Engineering;
Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair
Area(s) of Expertise: Computational Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics; Combinatorial Algorithms
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2991
E-mail tao.jiang@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~jiang/

Eamonn Keogh
Distinguished Professor
Research areas: data mining, machine learning and information retrieval, techniques for solving similarity and indexing problems in time-series datasets
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2032
E-mail eamonn.keogh@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/

Stefano Lonardi
Associate Chair of Computer Science and Engineering;
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Areas of expertise: Computational Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics, Genomics, Epigenetics, Data Mining
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2203
E-mail stefano.lonardi@ucr.edu
Website: https://www.cs.ucr.edu/~stelo/
Entomology

Michael E. Adams
Professor of Entomology and Neuroscience
Areas of expertise:
Hormonal regulation of development and innate behaviors; isolation, characterization and physiological actions of arthropod venom toxins
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4746
E-mail michael.adams@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/michael-adams

Peter Atkinson
Professor of Entomology
Research areas: Genetics of medical and agricultural important insects Development of transposable elements as gene vectors in insects
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4782
E-mail peter.atkinson@ucr.edu
Website: https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/peter-atkinson

Brian A Federici
Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Division
Areas of expertise: Insect pathology and microbial control with emphasis on viral and bacterial pathogens of medically or agriculturally important insects
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5006
E-mail brian.federici@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/brian-federici

Allison Katherine Hansen
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Research areas: ecological and evolutionary genomics of insect-microbe interactions, how microbes affect eukaryotic metabolism and mechanistically interact together, identifying which microbe genes and sRNAs produce extended insect host phenotypes that increase insect fitness
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-9271
E-mail allison.hansen@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://allisonhansenlab.weebly.com/
Kerry Elizabeth Mauck
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Research areas:
chemical ecology of pathogen-host-vector interactions, biochemical mechanisms in mediating plant pathogen transmission, how pathogen-induced phenotypic shifts may modify food webs
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5444
E-mail: kerry.mauck@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://maucklab.ucr.edu/

Quinn McFrederick
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Areas of expertise: symbioses effects on viability of wild bee populations; evolution and ecology of symbioses between bees and bacteria, fungi, and viruses; microbe transmittance in pollination
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5817
E-mail quinn.mcfrederick@ucr.edu
Lab Website: melittology.ucr.edu
Alexander S Raikhel
Distinguished Professor of Entomology
Research areas: molecular basis of events in mosquito reproduction cycle linked to blood meal and pathogen transmission, how nuclear receptors mediate ecdysone in gene activation and representation during vitellogenesis, binding properties of VgR and other yolk protein receptors into mosquito oocytes
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2129
E-mail: alexander.raikhel@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/site/raikhellab/

John T Trumble
Distinguished Professor of Entomology
Research areas: how plant-herbivore interactions are influenced by anthropogenic pollution of air and water, how pollutants change gene expression and defensive chemical production in genetically modified plants
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5624
E-mail john.trumble@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~john/TrumbleLab/Trumble_Lab/Trumblelab.html

Christiane Weirauch
Professor of Entomology
Areas of expertise: Morphological and molecular systematics of Heteroptera with an emphasis on assassin bugs (Reduviidae) and plant bugs (Miridae); Evolutionary biology; Biological control
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5707
E-mail christiane.weirauch@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://heteroptera.ucr.edu/

Hollis Woodard
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Area(s) of Expertise: Bees; Behavior; Genomics; Evolution; Nutritional Ecology
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5761
E-mail hollis.woodard@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.woodardlab.com/

Naoki Yamanaka
Associate Professor of Entomology
Research areas: identifying and characterizing neuroendocrine signaling pathways that regulate physiological and behavioral changes during insect development
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5253
E-mail naoki.yamanaka@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://www.yamanakalab.com/
Evolution, Ecology & Origins Biology

Theodore Garland
Distinguished Professor of Evol., Ecol., and Organismal Bio
Research areas:
evolutionary physiology, selective breeding of high runner mice
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3524
E-mail theodore.garland@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/ucr.edu/garlandlab/home

Joel Sachs
Professor of Evol., Ecol., and Organismal Bio
Research areas: fundamental theory about evolution, ecology, and mechanistic bases of plant-bacterial mutualism; coevolution of bacterial exploitation and plant control; evolution and epidemiology of plant-associated bacteria; how host plants constrain bacterial exploitation
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6357
E-mail joel.sachs@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.sachslab.com/
Mathematics

Mark Alber
Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Title: Distinguished Professor of Mathematics,
Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology,
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
Deputy Editor, PLOS Computational Biology,
Associate Editor, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology,
Member of the Editorial Board, Biophysical Journal
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3122
E-mail mark.alber@ucr.edu
Website: Interdisciplinary Center for Quantitative Modeling in Biology open_in_newhttps://mathdept.ucr.edu/faculty/ladder-faculty open_in_new
Curriculum Vitae
Mechanical Engineering

Elisa Franco
Adjunct Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Research areas: nucleic acid condensates, dynamic self-assembly of DNA and RNA structures, molecular dynamical systems and controllers
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2442
E-mail elisa.franco@ucr.edu
Website: http://www.seas.ucla.edu/francolab/people.html

Kambiz Vafai
Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering;
Director of Masters of Science in Engineering
Research areas: multiphase transport, porous media, innovative heat pipes, electronic cooling, innovative microchannels, innovative biosensors, aircraft brake systems, land mine detection, BNCT systems, DW MRI enhanced simulations, innovative high heat flux and thermal and fluid flow regulations and control
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2135
E-mail kambiz.vafai@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://vafai.engr.ucr.edu/
Microbiology & Plant Pathology

Michael Allen
Distinguished Professor and Plant Pathologist, Emeritus
Research areas: effects of human activities on ecosystem biodiversity and function, impacts of human activities on wildlands, how natural succession can be applied to ecosystem restoration, ways to bring ecological science into decision-making processes
Contact Info:
E-mail michael.allen@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/mallen

Katherine Borkovich
Divisional Dean of Life Sciences
Research areas: how filamentous fungi sense their environment and fine-tune their gene expression, heterotrimeric G-proteins using Neurospora crassa, whole-genome information, G-protein regulation in pathogenesis
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7289
E-mail katherine.borkovich@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://borkovichlab.ucr.edu/

James Borneman
Professor and Vice Chair Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Research areas: microbial roles in pathogen or disease associated processes, microorganisms that suppress plant pathogens, development of PRISE2 (software to design sequence-selective PCR primers and probes), development of DNA sequencing method for bacteria identification at a higher taxonomic resolution
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3584
E-mail james.borneman@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/borneman

Shou-wei Ding
Professor of Molecular Virology and Immunology
Area(s) of Expertise: Host-virus Interactions in Insects and Plants; RNA Silencing
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2341
E-mail shou-wei.ding@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dingsw
Emma W Gachomo
Assistant Professor Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Area(s) of Expertise: Biology and ecology of soil-borne pathogens and their interactions with plants and other rhizosphere microbes.
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2093
E-mail emma.gachomo@ucr.edu

Rong Hai
Assistant Professor of Virology
Research areas: molecular characterization of emerging negative strand RNA viruses using influenza viruses as the model system, virus replication, virus-host interactions, method development for genome manipulation of emerging viruses
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3910
E-mail rong.hai@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ronghai

Ansel Hsiao
Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology & Microbiology
Research areas: identifying mechanisms by which gut microbiota confer susceptibility or resistance to enteropathogenic bacteria, quorum sensing by gut microbiota to inhibit virulence gene production, method development for manipulating structure of gut microbiota to provide prophylaxis against bacterial enteropathogens
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2525
E-mail ansel.hsiao@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/ahsiao

Hailing Jin
Professor of Genetics & Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair
Area(s) of Expertise: Small RNA-mediated Gene Regulation in Plant Immunity
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7995
E-mail hailing.jin@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sites.google.com/a/ucr.edu/dr-hailing-jin-s-laboratory/home

Howard Judelson
Professor of Plant Pathology
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Biology; Genetics; Developmental Biology; Plant Pathogen; Fungi
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7995
E-mail howard.judelson@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://oomyceteworld.net/

Patricia Merced Manosalva
Assistant Professor; Director, UCR Avocado Rootstock Breeding Program
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions; Plant Pathology; Molecular Biology; Plant Resistance; Plant Genetics and Genomics
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3773
E-mail patricia.manosalva@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/pmanosal

James Ng
Associate Professor & Plant Pathologist
Research areas: how interactions among insect, virus, and plants result in virus transmission and diseases, recalcitrant and emerging insect-transmitted that are important to subtropical agriculture, Crinivirus genus vectored by whitefly species, function of capsid proteins, development of California strains of citrus tristeza virus as tools for managing Huanglongbing plant bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus and Asian citrus psyllid
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4239
E-mail james.ng@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jamesng

A. L. N. Rao
Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Plant Virology; Virus Replication; Virus-host Interactions; Virus Cell-to-cell Movement and Mechanism of Genome Packaging in Positive-strand RNA Viruses
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3810
E-mail a.rao@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/arao

Caroline Roper
Associate Professor of Plant Pathology
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular basis of the host/pathogen interactions of vector borne plant pathogenic bacteria
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3510
E-mail caroline.roper@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://roperlaboratory.weebly.com/

Jason Stajich
Professor of Bioinformatics
Area(s) of Expertise: Bioinformatics; Genomics; Mycology; Evolutionary & Population Biology; Molecular Evolution
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2363
E-mail jason.stajich@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://lab.stajich.org/
Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology

Michael Adams
Professor of Entomology, Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Research areas: Hormonal regulation of development and innate behaviors; isolation, characterization and physiological actions of arthropod venom toxins
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4746
E-mail michael.adams@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://entomology.ucr.edu/people/michael-adams

Jeffrey Bachant
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6473
E-mail jeffrey.bachant@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jeffbach

Anupama Arun Dahanukar
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cell & Systems Bio
Research areas: molecular and neural mechanisms underlying chemosensory behavior, gustatory system of Drosophila melanogaster, molecular and cellular basis of taste recognition by identifying receptor structure and function, how taste sensory information is processed and interpreted, effect of other sensory input and nutritional status on feeding behavior
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5742
E-mail anupama.dahanukar@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/dahanan

David Eastmond
Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cell & Systems Bio
Research areas: mechanisms in toxicity and carcinogenesis of environmental chemicals, risk assessment
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4497
E-mail david.eastmond@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/eastmond

Sarjeet S Gill
Distinguished Emeritus and Professor of the Grad Division
Research areas: Insect biochemistry; insect and insecticide toxicology; mode of action of Bacillus thuringiensis toxins; toxic compounds in the feed of domestic animals; cell membrane transport
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4621
E-mail sarjeet.gill@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/gill

Weifeng Gu
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Research areas: small RNA and antivirus
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3600
E-mail weifeng.gu@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/weifeng

Sachiko Haga-Yamanaka
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cell & Systems Bio
Research areas: identifying ligands and functions of those orphan sensory receptors in mice to discover novel roles of the accessory olfactory system in innately motivated behaviors, functions of mammalian orthologs of insect steroid horman transporter using animal models
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3560
E-mail sachiko.yamanaka@ucr.edu
Lab Website: Haga-Yamanaka Lab

Ted Karginov
Associate Professor of Molecular, Cell & Systems Bio
Research areas: post-transcriptional gene regulation, RNA-binding proteins, microRNAs, combinatorial regulation
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3604
E-mail fedor.karginov@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://karginovlab.ucr.edu/

Karine Gaelle Le Roch
Professor of Molecular, Cell & Systems Biology;
Director of the Center for Infectious Disease & Vector Research
Research areas: functional genomics approaches to spatial organization of parasitic genomes and their epigenetic features to understand their role in regulating biological processes; chromatin conformation capture, mass spec, metabolomics, and system biology approaches to identify key molecular components that control chromatin structure, parasite development, and virulence factors.
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5422
E-mail karine.leroch@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://lerochlab.ucr.edu/

Morris Maduro
Professor of Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Cell Fate Specification; Gene Regulatory Networks; Transcription Factors; Animal Embryonic Development; Evolution of Gene Networks
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7196
E-mail morris.maduro@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~mmaduro/

Manuela Martins-Green
Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Research areas: activation, expression, function of chemokines in healing using animal models and human cultures; effects of secondhand smoke on atherosclerosis, delay of skin and cornea healing; skin organ culturing and engineering; lung epithelial/endothelial blood barrier development
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2585
E-mail manuela.martins@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://stemcells.ucr.edu/stem-cell-center/faculty/manuela-martins-green
Dmitri Maslov
Professor of Biology; MCSB Vice Chair
Research areas: Mitochondrial gene expression, Molecular parasitology
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6485
E-mail: dmitri.maslov@ucr.edu
Website: https://biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Maslov.html

Connie Nugent
Tel: (951) 827-2383
E-mail: connie.nugent@ucr.edu
Divisional Dean of Student Academic Affairs
Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Tel: (951) 827-2383
E-mail connie.nugent@ucr.edu

Anand Ray
Professor of Molecular, Cell & Systems Bio
Research areas:
Neurobiology of olfaction, neurodevelopment, gene regulation and epigenetics, computational biology and cheminformatics, electrophysiology and calcium imaging, model systems: mosquito, drosophila, mouse, human, Arabidopsis
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-5998
E-mail anand.ray@ucr.edu
Lab Website: www.olfaction.ucr.edu

Frances Sladek
Professor of Cell Biology & Toxicologist
Research areas: role of HNF4 transcription factor in physiology and disease, with emphasis on cancer and diabetes. Molecular mechanisms of tissue-specific gene regulation, cell differentiation and proliferation, and role of transcription regulation and alternative splicing and promoter usage in human evolution. Current projects: ligand binding, HNF4 isoforms, post-translational modifications, genome-wide analysis of nuclear receptor target genes.
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2264
E-mail frances.sladek@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://sladeklab.ucr.edu/frances-m-sladek

Prue Talbot
Professor of Cell Biology
Research areas: tobacco-related diseases, electronic cigarettes, stem cell biology, video bioinformatics, functional assays to examine cell health, organelle dynamics, and metabolite production. Development of open source software StellCellQC and MitoMo
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3768
E-mail prue.talbot@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://talbotlab.ucr.edu/
Nematology

Adler Dillman
Associate Professor of Parasitology & Associate Nematologist
Research areas: host-parasite interactions, host immune response to parasite proteins released by parasitic nematodes
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3912
E-mail adler.dillman@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://dillmanlab.org

Simon "Niels" Groen
Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant-nematode Interactions, Plant-insect Interactions, Plant Stress Tolerance, Evolutionary Genomics, Quantitative Systems Biology
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4230
Email: simon.groen@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/simong

Isgouhi Kaloshian
Professor of Nematology
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant-nematode and plant-aphid interactions; Aphid effectors
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7291
E-mail isgouhi.kaloshian@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~ikalosh/index.html

Philip Roberts
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Nematology
Research areas: management of plant parasitic nematodes, genetic improvement of crops, resistance gene inheritance, development of gene markers, genome mapping, gene transfer
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-7332
E-mail philip.roberts@ucr.edu
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/proberts
Psychology

Chandra Reynolds
Professor of Psychology; Affiliated Faculty of Center for Geospatial Sciences
Research areas: interrelationships between health and cognition across all ages, genetic and environmental etiologies of cognitive aging
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2430
E-mail: chandra.reynolds@ucr.edu
Lab Website: https://bbr.ucr.edu/
Statistics

Xinping Cui
Professor of Statistics
Area(s) of Expertise: Design and Analysis of Gene Expression Experiments Using DNA Microarrays; SNP/SFP Discovery Using DNA Microarrays
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-2563
E-mail: xinping.cui@ucr.edu
Lab Website: http://cui.bioinformatics.ucr.edu/

James Flegal
Associate Professor, Vice Chair, & Undergraduate Advisor of Statistics
Research areas: Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical computing, subsampling, Monte Carlo standard errors
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3987
E-mail: james.flegal@ucr.edu
Website: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~jflegal/

Wenxiu Ma
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Area(s) of Expertise: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Statistical Modeling in Genomics; Machine Learning; Data Mining
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6005
E-mail: wenxiu.ma@ucr.edu
Website: https://faculty.ucr.edu/~wenxiu/

Wei Vivian Li
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Area(s) of Expertise: Bioinformatics and Genomics, Statistical Learning and Machine Learning, Algorithm Development, Single-Cell Analysis, High-throughput Sequencing Data Analysis
Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-3327
E-mail: weil@ucr.edu
Website: https://vivianli.org/#home