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/

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

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