Biomolecular Engineering Faculty
Faculty
Mark Akeson
Engineering nanopore detectors for elucidating sequence, structure, and dynamics of DNA and RNAPhilip Berman—Chair
Development of vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases; technology development for commercial production of complex recombinent glycoproteinsDavid Deamer
Membrane biophysics, model membrane systems and transport mechanisms, molecular self-assembly, nanotechnologyCamilla Forsberg
Mechanisms of stem cell fate decisions at the molecular, cellular, and systems biology levelsDietlind Gerloff
Bioinformatics and biocomputing applied to structural and evolutionary principles of interactions between proteins and to functional genomics data
David Haussler
Bioinformatics; evolutionary, comparative, and experimental genomics; whole-genome analysis and annotation; statistical modelsRichard Hughey—Associate Chair
Parallel processing, hidden Markov models, high-performance bioinformatics computingKevin Karplus—Undergraduate and Graduate Director of Bioinformatics
Protein structure prediction using hidden Markov models, neural nets, fragment packing, and other approaches; protein designTodd Lowe
Experimental and computational genomics, DNA microarrays to study gene expression in Archaea, non-coding RNA gene prediction, cross-species hybridization, comparative genomicsNader Pourmand
Bioelectric approaches to detect biological events with electrical signals, applied to basic biomedical discovery, clinical diagnosis, and environmental monitoring; nanofabricationCarol Rohl
Protein structure prediction and modeling, protein design, experimental and computational analysis of protein structure–function relationshipsJosh Stuart
Genome-wide analysis of gene regulation, evolution of genetic networks, comparative functional genomics, DNA microarray analysisJonathan Trent
Extremophile physiology, adaptation of extremophilic proteins as tools in nanotechnology
Affiliated Faculty
Fitnat Yildiz
Understanding processes that control growth, persistence and transmission dynamics of human pathogens in non-host environments
Researchers
Jim Kent
UCSC Genome Browser developer
Lecturer
Wendy Rothwell
Biotechnology, molecular genetics