IMSD Faculty Mentors
The following UC Berkeley faculty are research advisors and mentors. They have committed to work with the IMSD undergraduates and graduates. Below you can read more on about their research on their faculty web page. Applicants are not limited to this list of faculty mentors.
MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY
| Georjana Barnes | Cell Biology, Developmental Biology,Structure, Function, Composition and Regulation of the Yeast Kinetochore and Mitotic Spindle, Microtubule Cytoskeleton and Cell Cycle Control | Rebecca Heald | Mitotic spindle assembly and function, Cell Biology | |
| Greg Barton | Immunology, Innate Immune System, Evolution of self/non-self discrimination strategies within the innate immune system | Bryan Krantz | Molecular mechanisms protein translocation across cell membranes | |
| Diana Bautista | Molecular mechanisms of transduction in touch and pain receptors, Neurobiology | John Kuriyan | Cell signaling and DNA replication, Structural Biology | |
| Rachel Brem | Systems Biology, Evolution of Genetic Variation | Kunxin Luo | Signal transduction and regulation of cell growth, differentiation, cell death and carcinogenesis, Cell and Developmental Biology | |
| Jamie Cate | Molecular Basis for Protein Synthesis in Humans and Bacteria, Engineering enzymes for biofuels production | Terry Machen | Epithelial transport; cellular and membrane physiology | |
| Lu Chen | Neurobiology, Mechanisms of synapse formation during development and synapse modification in plasticity | John Ngai | Neurobiology, Molecular and cellular mechanisms of olfaction | |
| Kathleen Collins | Structure and function of telomerase, Functions of novel non-coding RNAs, RNA silencing, genetic and epigenetic regulation of genes and genomes | Michael Rape | Control of cell proliferation and differentiation in eukaryotes, Cell Biology | |
| Abby Dernburg | Cell Biology, Chromosome dynamics during meiosis | Ellen Robey | Immunology, cell signaling and cell fate control | |
| David Drubin | Cell Biology, Membrane Trafficking end Endocytosis, Mitotic Spindle Function and Dynamics, Actin Assembly | Randy Scheckman | Cell Biology, intracellular protein transport, membrane assembly and vesicular transport, genetic diseases of protein transport | |
| Gary Firestone | Molecular Endocrinology, Tumor Biology | Kristin Scott | Establishment of nerve cell connectivity in developing nervous systems, taste recognition, Neurobiology | |
| Iswar Hariharan | Mechanisms of control of growth and cell proliferation. Regulation of regenerative growth. Cell Biology and Development | Karsten Weis | Macromolecular transport into and out of the nucleus in eukaryotic cells, Cell Biology | |
| David Weisblat | Developmental Biology, Evolution of Development in metazoans | Qiang Zhuo | Biochemistry of HIV gene expression and transcriptional elongation |
INTERGRATIVE BIOLOGY
| Anthony Barnosky | Mammalian paleobiology | Daniela Kaufer | Molecular Neuroscience and Stem Cell Biology: Plasticity in the Adult Brain | |
| George Bentley | Avian reproductive biology, neuroendocrinology and behavior | Eileen Lacey | Behavioral ecology, population and evolutionary biology | |
| Roy Caldwell | Invertebrate behavioral biology and ecology | Steve Lehman | Motor control, biomechanics | |
| Todd Dawson | Physiological plant ecology, stable isotope biogeochemistry | Brent Mishler | Bryology, systematics and evolutionary biology | |
| Robert Dudley | Biomechanics and comparative physiology |
Kevin Padian | Paleontology and evolutionary biology | |
| Paul V.A. Fine | Plant ecology, plant evolutionary biology, speciation, floristic and phytogeography | Ellen Simms | Plant ecology and evolution | |
| Robert Full | Comparative biomechanics, physiology, and functional morphology | Wayne Sousa | Population and community ecology | |
| Tyrone Hayes | Developmental endocrinology | Irving Zucker | Biological rhythms, hibernation. and behavioral endocrinology | |
| Leslea Hlusko | Mammalian evolutionary biology |
SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
| Darlene Francis | Behavioral Neuroscience, Neural plasticity and development | Arthur Reingold | Infectious diseases in developing countries and the US, Epidemiology | |
| Amani Nuru-Jeter | Race and health disparities, Community Health, Epidemiology | Lee Riley | Epidemiology, diseases of poverty, bacterial pathogens |
PLANT AND MICROBIAL BIOLOGY
| Robert Fischer | Gene imprinting, epigenetic regulation of development | Kathleen Ryan | Cell cycle and cell fate control in bacteria | |
| Arash Komeili | Assembly and subcellular organization of bacterial organelles, Cell biology | Chelsea Specht | Developmental biology, Evolution of development, comparative genomics | |
| Krishna Niyogi | Ecological physiology of algae and plants, environmental stress responses, Physiology |
Mary Wildermuth | Plant defense responses |
NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE AND TOXICOLOGY
| Hei Sook Sul | Lipid metabolism, transcriptional control of lipid metabolism | Chris Vulpe | Genetics and physiology of resistance and susceptibly to toxins, novel tools for identification of environmental toxins |
ESPM
| Stephen C. Welter | Agricultural entomology, plant- insect interactions |
