Research Specialties

Biochemistry and Biophysics

Name	Section	Title	Email
Aroian, Raffi	CDB	Professor	raroian@ucsd.edu
Baker, Timothy	MB	Professor	tsb@ucsd.edu
Berg, Darwin	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	dberg@ucsd.edu
Choe, Seunghyon (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	choe@salk.edu
Crawford, Nigel	CDB	Professor	ncrawford@ucsd.edu
David, Michael	MB	Professor of Biology	midavid@ucsd.edu
Doolittle, Russell (em.)	MB	Research Professor	rdoolittle@ucsd.edu
Estelle, Mark	CDB	Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair	mestelle@ucsd.edu
Geiduschek, E. (em.)	MB	Research Professor	pgeiduschek@ucsd.edu
Ghosh, Partho	MB	Professor	pghosh@ucsd.edu
Hampton, Randolph	CDB	Professor	rhampton@ucsd.edu
Johnson, Tracy	MB	Assistant Professor	johnsont@ucsd.edu
Kadonaga, James	MB	Distinguished Professor	jkadonaga@ucsd.edu
Macagno, Eduardo	CDB	Professor	emacagno@ucsd.edu
Montal, S.	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	mmontal@ucsd.edu
O'Shea, Clodagh (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	oshea@salk.edu
Scheffler, Immo	MB	Professor	ischeffler@ucsd.edu
Schroeder, Julian	CDB	Distinguished Professor	jischroeder@ucsd.edu
Shaw, Reuben (Salk Adjunct)		Hearst Endorsement Assistant Professor	shaw@salk.edu
Smith, Douglas (em.)	MB	Professor Emeritus of Biology	dsmith@ucsd.edu
Subramani, Suresh	MB	Distinguished Professor	ssubramani@ucsd.edu
Wang, Lei (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor and Ferederick B. Rentschler Developmental Chair	lwang@salk.edu
Wasserman, Steven	CDB	Professor	sawasserman@ucsd.edu

Cell and Developmental Biology

Name	Section	Title	Email
Aroian, Raffi	CDB	Professor	raroian@ucsd.edu
Berg, Darwin	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	dberg@ucsd.edu
Bier, Ethan	CDB	Professor of Biology	ebier@ucsd.edu
Briggs, Steven	CDB	Distinguished Professor	sbriggs@ucsd.edu
Chisholm, Andrew	Neuro	Professor	adchisholm@ucsd.edu
Chory, Joanne (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and Director	chory@salk.edu
Chrispeels, Maarten (em.)	CDB	Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology	mchrispeels@ucsd.edu
David, Michael	MB	Professor of Biology	midavid@ucsd.edu
Ecker, Joseph (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	ecker@salk.edu
Estelle, Mark	CDB	Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair	mestelle@ucsd.edu
Firtel, Richard	CDB	Associate Dean for Operations/Distinguished Professor	rafirtel@ucsd.edu
Forbes, Douglass	CDB	Professor	dforbes@ucsd.edu
Golden, James	MB	Professor	jwgolden@ucsd.edu
Halpain, Shelley	Neuro	Professor	shalpain@ucsd.edu
Hampton, Randolph	CDB	Professor	rhampton@ucsd.edu
Jamora, Colin	CDB	Assistant Professor	cjamora@ucsd.edu
Johnson, Randall	MB	Professor of Biology	rsjohnson@ucsd.edu
Jones, Dana (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	ljones@salk.edu
Kadonaga, James	MB	Distinguished Professor	jkadonaga@ucsd.edu
Kay, Steve	CDB	Dean	skay@ucsd.edu
Kiger, Amy	CDB	Assistant Professor	akiger@ucsd.edu
Kintner, Christopher (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	kintner@salk.edu
Kristan, William	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	wkristan@ucsd.edu
Long, Jeffrey (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	long@salk.edu
Loomis, William	CDB	Distinguished Professor	wloomis@ucsd.edu
Lykke-Andersen, Jens	MB	Associate Professor	jlykkeandersen@ucsd.edu
Macagno, Eduardo	CDB	Professor	emacagno@ucsd.edu
Mcginnis, William	CDB	Distinguished Professor	wmcginnis@ucsd.edu
Pasquinelli, Amy	MB	Associate Professor	apasquinelli@ucsd.edu
Pogliano, Kit	MB	Professor	kpogliano@ucsd.edu
Posakony, James	CDB	Professor of Biology	jposakony@ucsd.edu
Price, Paul	MB	Distinguished Professor of Biology	pprice@ucsd.edu
Scheffler, Immo	MB	Professor	ischeffler@ucsd.edu
Schmidt, Robert	CDB	Professor	rschmidt@ucsd.edu
Schroeder, Julian	CDB	Distinguished Professor	jischroeder@ucsd.edu
Spector, Deborah (SoM, UCSD Adjunct)	MB	Professor	dspector@ucsd.edu
Spitzer, Nicholas	Neuro	Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair	nspitzer@ucsd.edu
Subramani, Suresh	MB	Distinguished Professor	ssubramani@ucsd.edu
Traver, David	CDB	Assistant Professor	dtraver@ucsd.edu
Troemel, Emily	CDB	Assistant Professor	etroemel@ucsd.edu
Umen, James (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	umen@salk.edu
Wang, Jean (SoM, UCSD Adjunct)	MB	Professor, Department of Medicine, Associate Director, Basic Research, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Chair, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, UCSD	jywang@ucsd.edu
Wasserman, Steven	CDB	Professor	sawasserman@ucsd.edu
Wilhelm, James	CDB	Assistant Professor	jwilhelm@ucsd.edu
Yanofsky, Martin	CDB	Professor and Chair	marty@ucsd.edu
Yelon, Deborah	CDB	Associate Professor	dyelon@ucsd.edu
Zhao, Yunde	CDB	Associate Professor	yundezhao@ucsd.edu

Ecology Behavior and Evolution

Name	Section	Title	Email
Chao, Lin	EBE	Professor	lchao@ucsd.edu
Cleland, Elsa	EBE	Assistant Professor	ecleland@ucsd.edu
Holway, David	EBE	Associate Professor	dholway@ucsd.edu
Jetz, Walter	EBE	Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	wjetz@ucsd.edu
Kohn, Joshua	EBE	Professor and Chair	jkohn@ucsd.edu
Markow, Therese	EBE	Amylin Chair in Life Sciences and Professor	tmarkow@ucsd.edu
Nieh, James	EBE	Associate Professor	jnieh@ucsd.edu
Rifkin, Scott	EBE	Assistant Professor	sarifkin@ucsd.edu
Roy, Kaustuv	EBE	Professor	kroy@ucsd.edu
Shurin, Jonathan		Associate Professor	jshurin@ucsd.edu
Wills, Christopher (em.)	EBE	Professor Emeritus	cwills@ucsd.edu
Woodruff, David	EBE	Professor	dwoodruff@ucsd.edu

Genetics and Molecular Biology

Name	Section	Title	Email
Allen, Eric	MB	Assistant Professor of Biology/Marine Biology	eallen@ucsd.edu
Aroian, Raffi	CDB	Professor	raroian@ucsd.edu
Bier, Ethan	CDB	Professor of Biology	ebier@ucsd.edu
Brody, Stuart	MB	Professor	sbrody@ucsd.edu
Chisholm, Andrew	Neuro	Professor	adchisholm@ucsd.edu
Choe, Seunghyon (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	choe@salk.edu
David, Michael	MB	Professor of Biology	midavid@ucsd.edu
Dillin, Andrew (Salk Adjunct)		Associate Professor and Pioneer Developmental Chair	dillin@salk.edu
Estelle, Mark	CDB	Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair	mestelle@ucsd.edu
Evans, Ronald (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and March of Dimes Chair in Molecular and Developmental Biology	evans@salk.edu
Feng, Gen	MB	Professor
Firtel, Richard	CDB	Associate Dean for Operations/Distinguished Professor	rafirtel@ucsd.edu
Gage, Fred (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases	gage@salk.edu
Geiduschek, E. (em.)	MB	Research Professor	pgeiduschek@ucsd.edu
Golden, James	MB	Professor	jwgolden@ucsd.edu
Golden, Susan	MB	Distinguished Professor	sgolden@ucsd.edu
Goldrath, Ananda	MB	Assistant Professor	agoldrat@ucsd.edu
Hasty, Jeff	MB		jmhasty@ucsd.edu
Helinski, Donald (em.)	MB	Professor Emeritus	dhelinski@ucsd.edu
Hetzer, Martin (Salk Adjunct)		Hearst Endorsement Assistant Professor	hetzer@salk.edu
Hunter, Anthony (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and American Cancer Society Professor	hunter@salk.edu
Johnson, Randall	MB	Professor of Biology	rsjohnson@ucsd.edu
Johnson, Tracy	MB	Assistant Professor	johnsont@ucsd.edu
Jones, Dana (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	ljones@salk.edu
Kadonaga, James	MB	Distinguished Professor	jkadonaga@ucsd.edu
Karlseder, Jan (Salk Adjunct)		Associate Professor	karlseder@salk.edu
Kiger, Amy	CDB	Assistant Professor	akiger@ucsd.edu
Lykke-Andersen, Jens	MB	Associate Professor	jlykkeandersen@ucsd.edu
Macagno, Eduardo	CDB	Professor	emacagno@ucsd.edu
Mayfield, Stephen	MB	Director, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology and John Dove Isaacs Chair of Natural Philosophy Professor	mayfield@scripps.edu
Mcginnis, William	CDB	Distinguished Professor	wmcginnis@ucsd.edu
Niwa Rosen, Maho	MB	Assistant Professor	niwa@ucsd.edu
O'Shea, Clodagh (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	oshea@salk.edu
Pasquinelli, Amy	MB	Associate Professor	apasquinelli@ucsd.edu
Pfaff, Samuel (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair in Neurobiology	pfaff@salk.edu
Pillus, Lorraine	MB	Professor and Vice Chair	lpillus@ucsd.edu
Pogliano, Joseph	MB	Associate Professor	jpogliano@ucsd.edu
Pogliano, Kit	MB	Professor	kpogliano@ucsd.edu
Posakony, James	CDB	Professor of Biology	jposakony@ucsd.edu
Saier, Milton	MB	Professor of Biology	msaier@ucsd.edu
Scheffler, Immo	MB	Professor	ischeffler@ucsd.edu
Schroeder, Julian	CDB	Distinguished Professor	jischroeder@ucsd.edu
Shaw, Reuben (Salk Adjunct)		Hearst Endorsement Assistant Professor	shaw@salk.edu
Smith, Douglas (em.)	MB	Professor Emeritus of Biology	dsmith@ucsd.edu
Smith, Laurie	CDB	Professor	lgsmith@ucsd.edu
Spector, Deborah (SoM, UCSD Adjunct)	MB	Professor	dspector@ucsd.edu
Subramani, Suresh	MB	Distinguished Professor	ssubramani@ucsd.edu
Traver, David	CDB	Assistant Professor	dtraver@ucsd.edu
Troemel, Emily	CDB	Assistant Professor	etroemel@ucsd.edu
Verma, Inder (Salk Adjunct)		Professor, Irwin Mark Jacobs Chair in Exemplary Life Science and American Cancer Society Professor	verma@salk.edu
Wahl, Geoffrey (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	wahl@salk.edu
Wang, Jean (SoM, UCSD Adjunct)	MB	Professor, Department of Medicine, Associate Director, Basic Research, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Chair, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, UCSD	jywang@ucsd.edu
Wang, Lei (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor and Ferederick B. Rentschler Developmental Chair	lwang@salk.edu
Wasserman, Steven	CDB	Professor	sawasserman@ucsd.edu
Weitzman, Matthew (Salk Adjunct)		Associate Professor and Pioneer Developmental Chair	weitzman@salk.edu
Wills, Christopher (em.)	EBE	Professor Emeritus	cwills@ucsd.edu
Xu, Yang	MB	Professor of Biology	yangxu@ucsd.edu
Young, John (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	jyoung@salk.edu
Zhang, Dong-er	MB	Professor	d7zhang@ucsd.edu
Zuker, Charles	Neuro	Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute	czuker@ucsd.edu
Zuniga, Elina	MB	Assistant Professor	eizuniga@ucsd.edu

Immunology, Virology and Cancer Biology

Name	Section	Title	Email
Baker, Timothy	MB	Professor	tsb@ucsd.edu
David, Michael	MB	Professor of Biology	midavid@ucsd.edu
Goldrath, Ananda	MB	Assistant Professor	agoldrat@ucsd.edu
Hedrick, Stephen	MB	Professor and Chair	shedrick@ucsd.edu
Johnson, Randall	MB	Professor of Biology	rsjohnson@ucsd.edu
Murre, Cornelis	MB	Professor	cmurre@ucsd.edu
O'Shea, Clodagh (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	oshea@salk.edu
Shaw, Reuben (Salk Adjunct)		Hearst Endorsement Assistant Professor	shaw@salk.edu
Spector, Deborah (SoM, UCSD Adjunct)	MB	Professor	dspector@ucsd.edu
Wahl, Geoffrey (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	wahl@salk.edu
Wang, Jean (SoM, UCSD Adjunct)	MB	Professor, Department of Medicine, Associate Director, Basic Research, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Chair, Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, UCSD	jywang@ucsd.edu
Weitzman, Matthew (Salk Adjunct)		Associate Professor and Pioneer Developmental Chair	weitzman@salk.edu
Wills, Christopher (em.)	EBE	Professor Emeritus	cwills@ucsd.edu
Xu, Yang	MB	Professor of Biology	yangxu@ucsd.edu
Young, John (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	jyoung@salk.edu
Zhang, Dong-er	MB	Professor	d7zhang@ucsd.edu
Zuniga, Elina	MB	Assistant Professor	eizuniga@ucsd.edu

Neurobiology

Name	Section	Title	Email
Berg, Darwin	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	dberg@ucsd.edu
Bier, Ethan	CDB	Professor of Biology	ebier@ucsd.edu
Boulanger, Lisa	Neuro	Assistant Adjunct Professor	lboulang@ucsd.edu
Chisholm, Andrew	Neuro	Professor	adchisholm@ucsd.edu
Fortes, P.	Neuro		pfortes@ucsd.edu
Gage, Fred (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and John Adler Chair for Research on Age-Related Neurodegenerative Diseases	gage@salk.edu
Ghosh, Anirvan	Neuro	Professor and Chair	aghosh@ucsd.edu
Goulding, Martyn (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	goulding@salk.edu
Halpain, Shelley	Neuro	Professor	shalpain@ucsd.edu
Jin, Yishi	Neuro	Professor	yijin@ucsd.edu
Kristan, William	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	wkristan@ucsd.edu
Lee, Kuo (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	klee@salk.edu
Leutgeb, Jill	Neuro	Assistant Professor	jleutgeb@ucsd.edu
Leutgeb, Stefan	Neuro	Assistant Profssor	sleutgeb@ucsd.edu
Macagno, Eduardo	CDB	Professor	emacagno@ucsd.edu
Malinow, Roberto	Neuro	Professor	rmalinow@ucsd.edu
Montal, S.	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	mmontal@ucsd.edu
O'Leary, Dennis (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	doleary@salk.edu
Patrick, Gentry	Neuro	Assistant Professor	gpatrick@ucsd.edu
Pfaff, Samuel (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair in Neurobiology	pfaff@salk.edu
Posakony, James	CDB	Professor of Biology	jposakony@ucsd.edu
Reinagel, Pamela	Neuro	Associate Professor	preinagel@ucsd.edu
Scanziani, Massimo	Neuro	Professor and Vice Chair	mscanziani@ucsd.edu
Sejnowski, Terrence	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	tsejnowski@ucsd.edu
Slesinger, Paul (Salk Adjunct)		Associate Professor	slesinger@salk.edu
Spitzer, Nicholas	Neuro	Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair	nspitzer@ucsd.edu
Thomas, John (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	jthomas@salk.edu
Wang, Jing	Neuro	Assistant Professor	jw800@ucsd.edu
Zou, Yimin	Neuro	Associate Professor	yzou@ucsd.edu
Zuker, Charles	Neuro	Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute	czuker@ucsd.edu

Plant Molecular Biology

Name	Section	Title	Email
Briggs, Steven	CDB	Distinguished Professor	sbriggs@ucsd.edu
Chory, Joanne (Salk Adjunct)		Professor and Director	chory@salk.edu
Chrispeels, Maarten (em.)	CDB	Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biology	mchrispeels@ucsd.edu
Crawford, Nigel	CDB	Professor	ncrawford@ucsd.edu
Ecker, Joseph (Salk Adjunct)		Professor	ecker@salk.edu
Kay, Steve	CDB	Dean	skay@ucsd.edu
Long, Jeffrey (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	long@salk.edu
Mayfield, Stephen	MB	Director, San Diego Center for Algae Biotechnology and John Dove Isaacs Chair of Natural Philosophy Professor	mayfield@scripps.edu
Schmidt, Robert	CDB	Professor	rschmidt@ucsd.edu
Schroeder, Julian	CDB	Distinguished Professor	jischroeder@ucsd.edu
Smith, Laurie	CDB	Professor	lgsmith@ucsd.edu
Umen, James (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	umen@salk.edu
Yanofsky, Martin	CDB	Professor and Chair	marty@ucsd.edu

Signal Transduction

Name	Section	Title	Email
Berg, Darwin	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	dberg@ucsd.edu
Bier, Ethan	CDB	Professor of Biology	ebier@ucsd.edu
David, Michael	MB	Professor of Biology	midavid@ucsd.edu
Feng, Gen	MB	Professor
Firtel, Richard	CDB	Associate Dean for Operations/Distinguished Professor	rafirtel@ucsd.edu
Hedrick, Stephen	MB	Professor and Chair	shedrick@ucsd.edu
Johnson, Randall	MB	Professor of Biology	rsjohnson@ucsd.edu
Kiger, Amy	CDB	Assistant Professor	akiger@ucsd.edu
Loomis, William	CDB	Distinguished Professor	wloomis@ucsd.edu
Lykke-Andersen, Jens	MB	Associate Professor	jlykkeandersen@ucsd.edu
Macagno, Eduardo	CDB	Professor	emacagno@ucsd.edu
Montal, S.	Neuro	Distinguished Professor	mmontal@ucsd.edu
O'Shea, Clodagh (Salk Adjunct)		Assistant Professor	oshea@salk.edu
Posakony, James	CDB	Professor of Biology	jposakony@ucsd.edu
Scheffler, Immo	MB	Professor	ischeffler@ucsd.edu
Schroeder, Julian	CDB	Distinguished Professor	jischroeder@ucsd.edu
Spitzer, Nicholas	Neuro	Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair	nspitzer@ucsd.edu
Wasserman, Steven	CDB	Professor	sawasserman@ucsd.edu
Xu, Yang	MB	Professor of Biology	yangxu@ucsd.edu
Zuker, Charles	Neuro	Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Neuroscience, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute	czuker@ucsd.edu

Systems Biology

Name	Section	Title	Email
Briggs, Steven	CDB	Distinguished Professor	sbriggs@ucsd.edu
Estelle, Mark	CDB	Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair	mestelle@ucsd.edu
Halpain, Shelley	Neuro	Professor	shalpain@ucsd.edu
Hasty, Jeff	MB		jmhasty@ucsd.edu
Macagno, Eduardo	CDB	Professor	emacagno@ucsd.edu
Murre, Cornelis	MB	Professor	cmurre@ucsd.edu
Nieh, James	EBE	Associate Professor	jnieh@ucsd.edu
Rifkin, Scott	EBE	Assistant Professor	sarifkin@ucsd.edu
Saier, Milton	MB	Professor of Biology	msaier@ucsd.edu
Schroeder, Julian	CDB	Distinguished Professor	jischroeder@ucsd.edu
Zhao, Yunde	CDB	Associate Professor	yundezhao@ucsd.edu

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Cell and Developmental Biology

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