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Biomolecular Engineering Faculty
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- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Baskin Engineering, Room 263
- DNA structure and dynamics, DNA sequencing, sequential analysis of single proteins, bioethics, nanopore technology, epigenetics
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- Distinguished Research Professor
- Professor Emeritus, Biomolecular Engineering
- Baskin Distinguished Professor
- Baskin Engineering, Room 357A
- Biotechnology
- Drug Development
- Vaccines
- Monoclonal antibody therapeutics
- Diagnostic tests
- Cell line engineering
- Recombinant protein production
- Immunology
- Molecular/cell biology
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- Assistant Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering
- Baskin Engineering, Room 269A
- Biofuel production using reengineered extremophiles; next-generation sequencing applications including genome assembly, metagenome assembly and RNA transcriptomics; single-molecule sequencing of highly structured tRNA; novel halo virus discovery
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- Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Director of Diversity, Genomics Institute
- computational biology, RNA splicing, genomics, cancer, high-throughput sequencing analysis
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- Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Regulation of innate and adaptive immunity, systems biology of human immune responses, development of novel vaccines and oligonucleotide-based drugs
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- Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Population and evolutionary genomics, bioinformatics
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- Research Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 312
- Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis of biopolymers, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly, liposomes
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- Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering
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- Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- 831-459-4833 (Office)
- 831-459-5157 (Lab)
- Office: Baskin Engineering, Room 259B
- Lab: Baskin Engineering, Room 292
- Protein engineering, structural biology, X-ray crystallography, biochemistry, biophysics, human viruses, vaccines, antiviral drugs
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- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Biomed Sciences, Room 438
- Hematopoietic stem cells, transcriptional regulation, chromatin, blood cell development, cell surface receptors, genomics
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- Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Biomedical Sciences Bldg, Room 146
- Genomics, computational biology, genome assembly, human evolution, splicing, ancient DNA mRNA processing
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- Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Pharmaceutical drug development
- Clinical trials in oncology, urology, woman’s health, gastroenterology, cardiovascular, and pain therapeutic areas
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- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Distinguished Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Scientific Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
- Scientific Co-Director, California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 405B
- 2300 Delaware, Room 280A
- Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Computational genomic data analysis
- Molecular evolution and comparative genomics
- Genomic and clinical data sharing and standards
- Cancer genomics
- Neurodevelopment
- Stem cell research
- Immunogenomics
- Machine learning
- Artificial intelligence
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- Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
- Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Bioinformatics, hidden Markov models, computer architecture, parallel computation
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- 831-459-4250 (voicemail not used)
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 318
- Teaching introductory electronics
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- Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering
- Biomedical Sciences - Room 446
- Noncoding RNAs in stem cells and cancer
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- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Associate Dean for Research, Baskin School of Engineering
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 320
- Computational and experimental non-coding RNA research
- Comparative transcriptomics
- RNA gene discovery (gene finders) and probabilistic modeling
- RNA-based gene regulation (antisense small RNAs, RNA-guided modification)
- Transfer RNA research - new functions and modes of regulation
- Role of RNA modification in regulation
- Alternative roles of non-coding RNAs (e.g., tRNA-derived small RNAs, piRNAs)
- Genomics of Archaea
- Evolutionary adaptation to extreme environments
- Small nucleolar RNA research
- Evolution of RNA gene familes
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- Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
- Physical and Biological Sciences Building, Room 405D.
- Centromere sequence characterization, satellite DNA evolution, epigenetic annotation of repeat-rich regions
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- Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Associate Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
- Computational genomics, precision medicine and biomedical data sharing
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- Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- Baskin Engineering, Room 257A
- Bioelectronics, biosensors, chemosensors, nanotechnology, single cell characterization, sequencing, genotyping, pathogen detection, DNA fingerprinting
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- Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering
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- Professor and Department Chair, Biomolecular Engineering
- Associate Director of CBSE for Cancer and Stem Cell Genomics
- Baskin Endowed Chair
- Physical Sciences Bldg, Room 308
- Computational genomics, computational systems biology, computational models for gene function prediction and regulation
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- Rachel Carson College, administrative building, room 229
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- Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering
- DNA sequencing tools to analyze B cells on a population and single cell level
