Biological Sciences, Division
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Professors
Raffi Aroian, PhD
Tim Baker, PhD
Darwin K. Berg, PhD, Chair, Neurobiology Section
Ethan Bier, PhD
Jack W. Bradbury, PhD, Emeritus
Steve Briggs, PhD
Stuart Brody, PhD, Emeritus
Ted J. Case, PhD, Emeritus
Lin Chao, PhD
Andrew Chisholm, PhD
Maarten J. Chrispeels, PhD, Emeritus
Nigel M. Crawford, PhD
Michael David, PhD
Russell F. Doolittle, PhD, Emeritus
Richard W. Dutton, PhD, Emeritus
Mark Estelle, PhD, HHMI Investigator
Gen-Sheng Feng, PhD
Richard A. Firtel, PhD, Associate Dean of Operations
Douglass J. Forbes, PhD
E. Peter Geiduschek, PhD, Emeritus
Anirvan Ghosh, PhD, Stephen W. Kuffler Chair in Biology
Michael E. Gilpin, PhD, Emeritus
James Golden, PhD
Susan Golden, PhD
Melvin H. Green, PhD, Emeritus
Shelley L. Halpain, PhD
Randolph Y. Hampton, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching
Jeff Hasty, PhD
Stephen M. Hedrick, PhD, Molecular Biology Section, Chancellor’s Associate Endowed Chair VII
Donald R. Helinski, PhD, Emeritus
John J. Holland, PhD, Emeritus
David Holway, PhD
Terrence Hwa, PhD
Yishi Jin, PhD, HHMI Investigator
Randall S. Johnson, PhD
James T. Kadonaga, PhD
David Kleinfeld, PhD
Joshua R. Kohn, PhD, Chair, Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Section
William B. Kristan, Jr., PhD, Chancellor’s Associates Faculty Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching
Sydney Kustu, PhD, Research Professor
Dan L. Lindsley, PhD, Emeritus
William F. Loomis, Jr., PhD, Emeritus
Eduardo R. Macagno, PhD
Robert Malinow, PhD, Shiley Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Therese Markow, PhD, Amylin Endowed Chair in Lifesciences Education and Research
Hayashi Masaki, PhD, Emeritus
Stephen Mayfield, PhD, John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy
William J. McGinnis, PhD, Interim Dean, Herbert Stern Chair in Biology
S. Mauricio Montal, MD, PhD
Cornelis Murre, PhD
Xuong Nguyen-Huu, PhD, Emeritus
James C. Nieh, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Lorraine Pillus, PhD, Chair, Molecular Biology Section
Kit J. Pogliano, PhD
James W. Posakony, PhD
Paul A. Price, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Morton Printz, PhD, Emeritus
Kaustuv Roy, PhD
Milton H. Saier, PhD
Massimo Scanziani, PhD, HHMI Investigator
Immo E. Scheffler, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award, Chancellor’s Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching
Robert J. Schmidt, PhD, Emeritus
Julian I. Schroeder, PhD, Torrey Mesa Research Institute Chair in Plant Science
Terrence J. Sejnowski, PhD, HHMI Investigator
Allen I. Selverston, PhD, Emeritus
S. Jonathan Singer, PhD, Emeritus/University Professor Emeritus
Douglas W. Smith, PhD, Emeritus
Laurie G. Smith, PhD
Nicholas C. Spitzer, PhD
Suresh Subramani, PhD, Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Kiyoteru Tokuyasu, PhD, Emeritus
David Traver, PhD
Sandra L. Vehrencamp, PhD, Emerita
Steven A. Wasserman, PhD, Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award
Christopher J. Wills, PhD, Emeritus
Flossie Wong-Staal, PhD, Emerita
David S. Woodruff, PhD
Yang Xu, PhD
Michael P. Yaffe, PhD, Emeritus
Martin F. Yanofsky, PhD, Chair, Cell and Developmental Biology, Paul D. Saltman Chair in Science Education
Deborah Yelon, PhD
Juan Yguerabide, PhD, Emeritus
Dong-Er Zhang, PhD
Yunde Zhao, PhD
Yimin Zou, PhD
Associate Professors
Eric Allen, PhD
Willie C. Brown, PhD, Emeritus, Academic Senate Career Distinguished Teaching Award
P.A.G. Fortes, MD, PhD
Ananda Goldrath, PhD
Tracy Johnson, PhD
Amy Kiger, PhD
Jens Lykke-Andersen, PhD
Maho Niwa, PhD
Amy Pasquinelli, PhD
Gentry Patrick, PhD
Ramón Piñón, PhD, Emeritus
Joseph A. Pogliano, PhD
Pamela Reinagel, PhD
Percy J. Russell, PhD, Emeritus
Jonathan Shurin, PhD
Gurol Suel, PhD
Jing Wang, PhD
Assistant Professors
Eric Bennett, PhD
Brenda Bloodgood, PhD
Elsa Cleland, PhD
Andrew Huberman, PhD
Suckjoon Jun, PhD
Takaki Komiyama, PhD, Silvio Varon Professorship in Neurodegeneration
Carolyn Kurle, PhD
Jill Leutgeb, PhD, Walter F. Heiligenberg Professorship in Neuroethology
Stefan Leutgeb, PhD
Li-Fan Lu, PhD
Jose Pruneda-Paz, PhD
Scott Rifkin, PhD
Eva-Maria Schoetz, PhD
Emily Troemel, PhD
James Wilhelm, PhD
Elina Zuniga, PhD
Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment
Gabriele K. Wienhausen, PhD, Associate Dean for Education, 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
Aaron Coleman, PhD
Kathleen French, PhD
Lecturers with Potential for Security of Employment
Lakshmi Chilukuri, PhD
Jayant Ghiara, PhD
Stephanie Mel, PhD
Krystal Rypien, PhD
Elvira Tour, PhD
Adjunct Faculty
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
Ralph Greenspan, PhD
Martin Hetzer, PhD
Anthony R. Hunter, PhD
Katherine Jones, PhD
Jan Karlseder, PhD
Christopher Kintner, PhD
Mitchell Kronenberg, PhD
Albert LaSpada, PhD
Kuo-Fen Lee, PhD
Bjorn Lillemeier, PhD
Vicki Lundblad, PhD
Marc R. Montminy, PhD
Axel Nimmerjahn, PhD
Dennis D.M. O’Leary, PhD
Clodagh O’Shea, PhD
Satchidananda Panda, PhD
Samuel Pfaff, PhD
Michael Geoffrey Rosenfeld, MD
Oliver A. Ryder, PhD
Moselio Schaechter, PhD
Reuben Shaw, PhD
Paul Slesinger, PhD
Deborah Spector, PhD
Inder Verma, PhD
Geoffrey M. Wahl, PhD
Jean Wang, PhD
Lei Wang, PhD
Carl Ware, PhD
David J. Western, PhD
John Young, PhD
Ye Zheng, PhD