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Biological Sciences
http://www.biology.ucsc.edu
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
A308 Earth and Marine Sciences
(831) 459-5358
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
225 Sinsheimer Laboratories
(831) 459-4986
Undergraduate Advising
230 Sinsheimer
(831) 459-4143
http://www.biology.ucsc.edu/ug
Program Description | Faculty
| Course Descriptions
Faculty and Professional Interests
Manuel Ares
RNA processing, structure and function of RNA
H. Hinrich Boeger
Chromatin structure and the regulation of
transcription
Barry J. Bowman
Membrane biochemistry and genetics, biochemistry
and molecular biology of membrane proteins
Andrew Chisholm
Genetic analysis of epithelial morphogenesis
David Feldheim
Developmental neuroscience
Grant Hartzog
Biochemistry, genetics, chromatin and
transcriptional regulation
Lindsay Hinck
Neurobiology, cell biology, development
Yishi Jin
HHMI investigator: synaptic development and
plasticity in C. elegans
Melissa Jurica
Structural analysis of ribonucleoprotein
macromolecules
Rohinton T. Kamakaka
Gene repression and insulators
Douglas Kellogg
Coordination of cell growth and cell division
Robert A. Ludwig
Plant microbe interactions, photorespiration,
genetic recombination in plants
Harry F. Noller
Ribosomes, RNA structure and function, RNA protein
interaction
Michael Rexach
Structure and function of nuclear pore complex,
nuclear transport
William Sullivan
Genetics, cell biology, development of the
Drosophila embryo
Lincoln Taiz
Plant
development, light regulation of stomatal opening
John W. Tamkun
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of
Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression
Alan M. Zahler
Molecular biology, splice site selection, and
alternative pre-mRNA processing
Martha C. Zúñiga
Molecular, cellular, and developmental biology of
the immune system
Charles Daniel
Robert Edgar
Jerry F. Feldman
Henry Hilgard
Kivie Moldave
Clifton A. Poodry
Frank J. Talamantes
Howard H. Wang

David Haussler (Biomolecular
Engineering)
Genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular
biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks, decision
theory, theory of computation
Robert S. Lokey (Chemistry and
Biochemistry)
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis,
biotechnology, molecular cell biology
Todd Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering)
Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene
finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea
Karen Ottemann (Environmental Toxicology)
Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria
William G. Scott (Chemistry and
Biochemistry)
Structure and function of RNA, proteins, and their
complexes
Fitnat Yildiz (Environmental
Toxicology)
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism
of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae
Michael Dalbey
Todd Hillaker
Linda Ogren
Mary Zavanelli
Giacomo Bernardi
Mark H. Carr
Marine ecology, applied marine ecology
Daniel P. Costar
Physiological ecology of marine mammals and birds
Donald Crollr
Foraging ecology of marine birds and mammals,
island conservation/ecology
Daniel F. Doak
Conservation biology, population biology,
plant-animal interactions
Laurel R. Fox
Terrestrial population and community ecology,
plant-animal interactions
Lynda J. Goff
Algal symbiosis, host-parasite relationships,
molecular evolution
Bruce E. Lyon
Behavioral
ecology, evolutionary ecology, avian ecology
Ingrid M. Parker
Plant ecology, pollination, plant-pathogen
interactions, biological invasions
Grant H. Pogson
Molecular population genetics, ecological
genetics, marine invertebrates and fishes
Donald C. Potts
Coral reef ecology, genetics, evolution, and
geological history; marine biodiversity; tropical biology, global change, and
remote sensing
Peter T. Raimondi
Marine ecology, evolutionary ecology, experimental
design, applied ecology
Barry Sinervo
Animal
behavior, evolution, physiological ecology
John N. Thompson
Coevolution, evolutionary ecology and genetics of
species interactions, organization of biodiversity
Terrie M. Williams
Vertebrate locomotor and thermoregulatory
physiology; marine biodiversity; comparative vertebrate energetics, exercise
physiology
Ralph Berger
William Doyle
Ralph Hinegardner
Jean Langenheim
Burney LeBoeuf
Charles (Leo) Ortiz
A. Todd Newberry
John Pearse

James Estes (Adjunct Professor,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Ocean Sciences)
Marine
sciences, community ecology
Greg Gilbert (Environmental Studies)
Disease
ecology, conservation biology, tropical forest ecology, microbial ecology
Daniel Harder (Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology)
Floristic inventory of Indochina and central Africa, biogeography, plant systematics
Karen D. Holl (Environmental Studies)
Restoration ecology, conservation biology,
landscape ecology
Paul L. Koch (Earth Sciences)
Isotope biogeochemistry, vertebrate paleontology
Raphael M. Kudela (Ocean Sciences)
Ecological modeling and remote sensing, satellite
oceanography, phytoplankton ecology and harmful algal blooms
R. Bruce Mac Farlane (Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology)
Physiological ecology of marine, estuarine, and
anadromous fishes
Marc S. Mangel (Applied Mathematics
and Statistics)
Mathematical modeling of biological phenomena,
especially the evolutionary ecology of growth, aging, and longevity;
quantitative issues in fishery management; mathematical and computational
aspects of disease
Mary W. Silver (Ocean Sciences)
Biological oceanography, marine plankton, midwater
ecology
Bernie Tershy (Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology)
Ecology and conservation of seabirds and island
ecosystems
Robert Vrijenhoek (Adjunct Professor,
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology)
Kerstin Wasson (Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology)
Evolutionary ecology, invasion biology,
conservation science
Jonathan P. Zehr (Ocean Sciences)
Aquatic microbial ecology, biological oceanography
Baldo Marinovic
Jill Thompson
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