Biological Sciences, Division of

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Professors

Susan Ackerman, PhD, HHMI Investigator, Stephen W. Kuffler Chair in Biology

Tim Baker, PhD

Darwin K. Berg, PhD, Emeritus

Ethan Bier, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Cell and Developmental Biology

Jack W. Bradbury, PhD, Emeritus

Steve Briggs, PhD

Stuart Brody, PhD, Emeritus

Lin Chao, PhD

Andrew Chisholm, PhD

Maarten J. Chrispeels, PhD, Emeritus

Elsa Cleland, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Nigel M. Crawford, PhD

Michael David, PhD

Russell F. Doolittle, PhD, Emeritus

Richard W. Dutton, PhD, Emeritus

Mark Estelle, PhD, Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology Section, HHMI Investigator

Gen-Sheng Feng, PhD

Richard A. Firtel, PhD

Douglass J. Forbes, PhD

E. Peter Geiduschek, PhD, Emeritus

Timothy Gentner, PhD

Michael E. Gilpin, PhD, Emeritus

James Golden, PhD

Susan Golden, PhD, HHMI Professor, Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair III

Ananda Goldrath, PhD, Chair, Molecular Biology

Melvin H. Green, PhD, Emeritus

Ralph Greenspan, PhD

Shelley L. Halpain, PhD

Randolph Y. Hampton, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Faculty Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Jeff Hasty, PhD

Masaki Hayashi, PhD, Emeritus

Stephen M. Hedrick, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Endowed Chair VII

Donald R. Helinski, PhD, Emeritus

David Holway, PhD, Chair, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Section

Terrence Hwa, PhD

Yishi Jin, PhD, Chair, Neurobiology, Junior Seau Foundation Endowed Chair in Traumatic Brain Injury

James T. Kadonaga, PhD, Amylin Endowed Chair in Lifesciences Education and Research

David Kleinfeld, PhD

Joshua R. Kohn, PhD

William B. Kristan, Jr., PhD, Emeritus, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching

Russell Lande, PhD, Emeritus

Andres Leschziner, PhD

Stefan Leutgeb, PhD

Dan L. Lindsley, PhD, Emeritus

Jens Lykke-Andersen, PhD

Eduardo R. Macagno, PhD

Robert Malinow, PhD, Shiley Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

Therese Markow, PhD, Emerita

Stephen Mayfield, PhD

William J. McGinnis, PhD, Dean, Richard C. Atkinson Endowed Chair

S. Mauricio Montal, MD, PhD, Emeritus

Cornelis Murre, PhD

Xuong Nguyen-Huu, PhD, Emeritus

James C. Nieh, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Maho Niwa Rosen, PhD

Amy Pasquinelli, PhD

Gentry Patrick, PhD, Director of Mentorship and Diversity

Lorraine Pillus, PhD, Associate Dean

Joseph A. Pogliano, PhD

Kit J. Pogliano, PhD, Dean, Graduate Division

James W. Posakony, PhD

Paul A. Price, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Morton Printz, PhD, Emeritus

Samara Reck-Peterson, PhD

Kaustuv Roy, PhD

Milton H. Saier, PhD

Immo E. Scheffler, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching

Eric A. Schmelz, PhD

Robert J. Schmidt, PhD, Emeritus

Julian I. Schroeder, PhD, Torrey Mesa Research Institute Chair in Plant Science

Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD

Allen I. Selverston, PhD, Emeritus

Jonathan Shurin, PhD

Douglas W. Smith, PhD, Emeritus

Laurie G. Smith, PhD, Director of Undergraduate Education

Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD, Atkinson Family Chair

Suresh Subramani, PhD, Tata Chancellor’s Endowed Professorship in Molecular Biology

Gurol Suel, PhD

Xin Sun, PhD

David Traver, PhD

Emily Troemel, PhD

Sandra L. Vehrencamp, PhD, Emerita

Jing Wang, PhD

Steven A. Wasserman, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Christopher J. Wills, PhD, Emeritus

Flossie Wong-Staal, PhD, Emerita

Yang Xu, PhD

Michael P. Yaffe, PhD, Emeritus

Martin F. Yanofsky, PhD, Paul D. Saltman Chair in Science Education

Deborah Yelon, PhD, Herbert Stern Chair in Biology

Juan Yguerabide, PhD, Emeritus

Dong-Er Zhang, PhD

Yunde Zhao, PhD

Yimin Zou, PhD

Elina Zuniga, PhD

Associate Professors

Eric Allen, PhD

Eric Bennett, PhD

Willie C. Brown, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Career Distinguished Teaching Award

P. A. G. Fortes, MD, PhD

Suckjoon Jun, PhD

Amy Kiger, PhD

Takaki Komiyama, PhD

Carolyn Kurle, PhD

Jill Leutgeb, PhD, Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship in Neuroethology

Li-Fan Lu, PhD

Ramón Piñón, PhD, Emeritus

Pamela Reinagel, PhD

Scott Rifkin, PhD

Percy J. Russell, PhD, Emeritus

James Wilhelm, PhD

Assistant Professors

Omar Akbari, PhD

Matthew Banghart, PhD

Andrew Barton, PhD

Brenda Bloodgood, PhD

Heidi Cook-Andersen, MD, PhD

Kimberly Cooper, PhD

Matthew Daugherty, PhD

Rachel Dutton, PhD

Emma Farley, PhD

Nan Hao, PhD

Alisa Huffaker, PhD

Enfu Hui, PhD

Sergey Kryazhimskiy, PhD

Shannon Lauberth, PhD

Byungkook Lim, PhD

Justin Meyer, PhD

Gulcin Pekkurnaz, PhD

Jose Pruneda-Paz, PhD

Cory Root, PhD

Chih-Ying Su, PhD

Elizabeth Villa, PhD

Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment

Gabriele K. Wienhausen, PhD, Executive Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

Lecturers with Security of Employment

Jon Christopher Armour, MD, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award

Madeline Butler, PhD, Emerita

Lakshmi Chilukuri, PhD

Aaron Coleman, PhD

Kathleen French, PhD, Emerita

Stephanie Mel, PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Awards—Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching

Ella Tour, PhD

Lecturers with Potential for Security of Employment

James Cooke, PhD

Barry Grant, PhD

Stanley Lo, PhD

Lisa McDonnell, PhD

Katherine Petrie, PhD

Sarah Stockwell, PhD

Adjunct Faculty

Nicola Allen, PhD

Kenta Asahina, PhD

Janelle Ayres, PhD

Eiman Azim, PhD

Hu Cang, PhD

Seunghyon Choe, PhD

Joanne Chory, PhD

Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD

Joseph Ecker, PhD

Beverly Emerson, PhD

Ronald M. Evans, PhD

Fred Gage, PhD

Martyn Goulding, PhD

Sung Han, PhD

Diana Hargreaves, PhD

Martin Hetzer, PhD

Anthony R. Hunter, PhD

Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, PhD

Xin Jin, PhD

Katherine Jones, PhD

Jan Karlseder, PhD

Christopher Kintner, PhD

Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD

Albert LaSpada, PhD

Julie Law, PhD

Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD

Bjorn Lillemeier, PhD

Vicki Lundblad, PhD

Marc R. Montminy, PhD

Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD

Clodagh O’Shea, PhD

Satchidananda Panda, PhD

Samuel Pfaff, PhD

Michael Geoffrey Rosenfeld, MD

Oliver A. Ryder, PhD

Alan Saghatelian, PhD

Moselio Schaechter, PhD

Reuben Shaw, PhD

Inder Verma, PhD

Geoffrey M. Wahl, PhD

Carl Ware, PhD

Ye Zheng, PhD