Faculty

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Mark Akeson
- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-1038
- Baskin Engineering, Room 263
- DNA structure and dynamics, DNA sequencing, sequential analysis of single proteins, bioethics, nanopore technology, epigenetics
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Phillip Berman
- Distinguished Research Professor
- Professor Emeritus, Biomolecular Engineering
- Baskin Distinguished Professor
- 831-459-3529
- Baskin Engineering, Room 357A
- Biotechnology
- Drug Development
- Vaccines
- Monoclonal antibody therapeutics
- Diagnostic tests
- Cell line engineering
- Recombinant protein production
- Immunology
- Molecular/cell biology
David Bernick
- Assistant Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-2061 (Office)
- Baskin Engineering, Room 269A
- Biofuel production using reengineered extremophiles; next-generation sequencing applications including genome assembly, metagenome assembly and RNA transcriptomics; single-molecule sequencing of highly structured tRNA; novel halo virus discovery
Angela N. Brooks
- Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-502-7275
- Sinsheimer 127
- computational biology, RNA splicing, genomics, cancer, high-throughput sequencing analysis
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Robert L. Coffman
- Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 510-665-7224
- Regulation of innate and adaptive immunity, systems biology of human immune responses, development of novel vaccines and oligonucleotide-based drugs
Russell Corbett-Detig
- Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Sinsheimer, Room 137
- Population and evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics
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David Deamer
- Research Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-5158
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 312
- Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis of biopolymers, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly, liposomes
Sandra Lyn Dreisbach
- Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering
Rebecca M. DuBois
- Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-4833 (Office)
- 831-459-5157 (Lab)
- Office: Baskin Engineering, Room 259B
- Lab: Baskin Engineering, Room 292
- Protein engineering, structural biology, X-ray crystallography, biochemistry, biophysics, human viruses, vaccines, antiviral drugs
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Camilla Forsberg
- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-2111
- Biomed Sciences, Room 438
- Hematopoietic stem cells, transcriptional regulation, chromatin, blood cell development, cell surface receptors, genomics
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Richard Edward Green
- Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-502-7394
- Biomedical Sciences Bldg, Room 146
- Genomics, computational biology, genome assembly, human evolution, splicing, ancient DNA mRNA processing
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David Haussler
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Distinguished Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Scientific Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
- Scientific Co-Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
- 831-459-2105
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 405B
- 2300 Delaware, Room 280A
- Bioinformatics, genomics, computational genomic data analysis, molecular evolution and comparative genomics, genomic and clinical data sharing and standards, cancer genomics, neurodevelopment, stem cell research, immunogenomics, machine learning, artificial intelligence
Richard Hughey
- Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
- Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-1993
- Kerr Hall, Room 211
- Bioinformatics, hidden Markov models, computer architecture, parallel computation
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Kevin Karplus
- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-4250
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 318
- Teaching introductory electronics
Daniel H. Kim
- Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-5484
- Biomedical Sciences - Room 446
- Noncoding RNAs in stem cells and cancer
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Todd M. Lowe
- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-1511
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 320
- Computational and experimental non-coding RNA research
- Comparative transcriptomics
- RNA gene discovery (gene finders) and probabilistic modeling
- RNA-based gene regulation (antisense small RNAs, RNA-guided modification)
- Transfer RNA research - new functions and modes of regulation
- Role of RNA modification in regulation
- Alternative roles of non-coding RNAs (e.g., tRNA-derived small RNAs, piRNAs)
- Genomics of Archaea
- Evolutionary adaptation to extreme environments
- Small nucleolar RNA research
- Evolution of RNA gene familes
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Benedict Paten
- Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
- 831-459-5232
- PSB, Room 405E
- Computational genomics, precision medicine and biomedical data sharing
Nader Pourmand
- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-502-7315
- Baskin Engineering, Room 257A
- Bioelectronics, biosensors, chemosensors, nanotechnology, single cell characterization, sequencing, genotyping, pathogen detection, DNA fingerprinting
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Wendy Rothwell
- Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-1623
- Baskin Engineering 357B
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Ali Shariati
- Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-4775
- Biomed Sciences, Room 430
- Cell division cycle, cellular differentiation, cell fate decision, genome engineering, pluripotency, stem cells, transcription, chromatin
Josh Stuart
- Professor and Department Chair, Biomolecular Engineering
- Associate Director of CBSE for Cancer and Stem Cell Genomics
- Baskin Endowed Chair
- 831-459-1344
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 308
- Computational genomics, computational systems biology, computational models for gene function prediction and regulation
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Terry Terhaar
- 831-459-4790
- Rachel Carson College, administrative building, room 229
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Christopher Vollmers
- Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Sinsheimer 121
- DNA sequencing tools to analyze B cells on a population and single cell level
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Zemin J. Zhang
- Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 650-580-0284 (Cell)
- Engineering 2, Room 507A
- Cancer genomics, bioinformatics, anti-cancer target and biomarker discovery, tumor immunology, drug-genome interaction

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