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 

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/

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

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 

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/

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/

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

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 

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/

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

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/

Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6089
E-mail monica.carson@ucr.edu 
Website: https://cgni.ucr.edu/ 

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/

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/ 

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 

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

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

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/ 

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/

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/

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/

Contact Info:
(951) 827-3318
E-mail: timothy.close@ucr.edu 
Website: https://ucanr.edu/?facultyid=403

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-4736
E-mail: chandrika.ramadugu@ucr.edu

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

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/

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/ 

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/

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

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/

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

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/ 

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/

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

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/

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/

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/

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/ 

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/ 

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/

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

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

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

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/ 

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/

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 

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/

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

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/ 

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/

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/ 

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 

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/

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 

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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/

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

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

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

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/

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/

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

Contact Info:
Tel: (951) 827-6473
E-mail jeffrey.bachant@ucr.edu 
Website: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/jeffbach

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

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

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

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

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 

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/

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/

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/ 

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

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

Divisional Dean of Student Academic Affairs

Contact Info:
Title: Associate Professor of Cell Biology
Tel: (951) 827-2383
E-mail connie.nugent@ucr.edu

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 

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

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/ 

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 

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

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

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

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/

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/

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/ 

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/

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