Biomolecular Engineering

Baskin School of Engineering
335 Baskin Engineering Building
(831) 459-2158
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu

Faculty and Professional Interests

Professor

Phillip Berman (Biomolecular Engineering, Department Chair)
Vaccines, AIDS, monoclonal antibody therapeutics, immunology, inflammation, molecular cell/biology, intracellular transport, recombinant protein production (commercial scale)

David W. Deamer, Emeritus (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

David Haussler (Biomolecular Engineering; Director, Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research and the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering)
Genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning, neural networks, decision theory, theory of computation

Richard Hughey (Biomolecular Engineering/ Computer Engineering)
Computer architecture, parallel processing, computational biology

Kevin Karplus (Biomolecular Engineering; Undergraduate and Graduate Director of Bioinformatics)
Protein structure prediction, protein design

Assistant Professor

Dietlind L. Gerloff (Biomolecular Engineering)
Protein to protein interactions, protein function prediction, functional genomics, protein structure prediction

Todd Lowe (Biomolecular Engineering)
Experimental and computation genomics, ncRNA gene finders, DNA microarrays to study the biology of Archaea

Carol Rohl (Biomolecular Engineering)
Protein design, protein structure and function prediction; protein-protein interactions

Joshua Stuart (Biomolecular Engineering)
Computational functional genomics, comparative analysis of gene regulation, cross-species inference of gene networks, probabilistic graphical models

Adjunct Professor

Jonathan Trent (Biomolecular Engineering)
Organic aggregates, marine snow, microbial physiology, microenviroments, robust proteins, genetic engineering for nanotechnology

Adjunct Associate Professor

Mark Akeson (Biomolecular Engineering)
DNA structure and dynamics, single molecule biophysics, bioethics

Professor

Manuel Ares (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
RNA processing, structure and function of RNA

A. Russell Flegal (Environmental Toxicology)
Anthropogenic perturbations of biogeochemical cycles, applications of isotopic tracers in anthropology and archaeology

Suresh Lodha (Computer Science)
Geo-spatial visualization, scientific visualization, sensor and computer vision, data mining

Marc 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

John W. Tamkun (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Transcriptional regulation, molecular genetics of Drosophila development, regulation of gene expression

Manfred K. Warmuth (Computer Science)
Online learning, machine learning, statistical decision theory, neural computation, analysis of algorithms

W. Todd Wipke, Emeritus (Chemistry and Biochemistry)

Alan M. Zahler (Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology)
Molecular biology, splice site selection, and alternative pre-mRNA processing

Associate Professor

Karen Ottemann (Environmental Toxicology)
Environmental responses of pathogenic bacteria

Assistant Professor

William Dunbar (Computer Engineering)
Theory and application of feedback control, distributed control of supply chains, model predictive control, optimization and optimal control, and control applications in sequencing technologies

Robert S. Lokey (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Organic chemistry; combinatorial synthesis, biotechnology, molecular cell biology

Hongyun Wang (Applied Mathematics and Statistics)
Molecular modeling and biophysics, numerical analysis, fluid mechanics, computer animation, partial differential equations, parallel computing, statistical physics, data structures, fast algorithms

Fitnat H. Yildiz (Environmental Toxicology)
Microbiology, molecular genetics, genomics; the mechanism of persistence of survival of Vibrio cholerae