Biomolecular Engineering
The Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department within the Jack Baskin School of Engineering features an interdisciplinary blend of engineering, biology, chemistry, and statistics designed to foster collaboration with other departments. This blend reflects our vision of the direction that biomedical discovery will take over the next two decades.
The BME Department ladder-rank faculty includes Mark Akeson, Phil Berman, Angela Brooks, Russ Corbett-Detig, Rebecca DuBois, Camilla Forsberg, Ed Green, David Haussler, Richard Hughey, Kevin Karplus, Daniel Kim, Todd Lowe (18-19 Department Chair), Benedict Paten, Nader Pourmand, Josh Stuart, and Christopher Vollmers . Jonathan Trent, Robert Coffman, Zemin Zhang, and David Bernick hold adjunct faculty appointments in the department. David Deamer, UC Davis Emeritus Professor of chemistry and biochemistry also holds a research professor appointment with the BME Department.
Members of the BME Department collaborate actively with faculty from other SOE departments and with the Physical & Biological Sciences departments of MCD Biology, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Environmental Toxicology, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Ocean Sciences.
News
UC Santa Cruz, NHI and NHGRI celebrate another successful year of BD2K
For the past four years, students from California State University Monterey Bay and the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras converge on UC Santa Cruz during the summer for a research training program at the Genomics Institute. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Research Education... Read More
Playing a long game
Michael Eisenstein | Nature Methods | 30 July 2019 This past February, Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute showed the genomics community something it had never seen before: a complete human chromosome. It’s no secret that the human genome sequence published in 2000 was... Read More
Three Hundred Engineering Students Present Projects on Partners Day
“We went last year from forty projects to sixty projects this year,” Jack Baskin Endowed Professor Patrick Mantey, who created and directs the senior design capstone program said. “From two hundred students participating to three hundred, I’m extremely proud of the whole crowd.” Watch a video of... Read More
