I am an immunologist and microbiologist who works on bacterial infection. I received my PhD from UCSF in 2006 under the mentorship of Jeff Cox. My work focused on using genetic approaches to identify virulence factors in the bacterial pathogen M. tuberculosis. I then received postdoctoral training at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, where I explored chemical biological approaches to identifying novel treatments for tuberculosis. I started my lab at Cal in 2012. My research here has focused on understanding protective immunity to Mtb at a mechanistic level using the mouse model...
I am a first-generation college student who went to the University of Arizona. In my 2nd year, I switched to a STEM focused major (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). I earned my PhD at Cornell University in the Neurobiology and Behavior department working on spider behavior. I worked as a Postdoc at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia before starting as an assistant professor in the Environmental Science, Policy and Management (ESPM) department in 2009. In ESPM, my lab studies behavioral ecology and animal communication.
After going to Cal as an undergrad I got my PhD at the University of Utah in 2004. I lived in Peru for much of my PhD work, conducting field work near Iquitos Peru, in some of the most species-rich forests on earth. I studied the evolution of habitat specialization by plants to different soils and the role of herbivores and plant defenses in influencing this process. I continued this work for my postdoc at the University of Michigan Society of Fellows and then was hired by UC Berkeley in 2007. I have continued my work on tropical diversity and also have built up a research program...
Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular & Cell Biology
I study translational control of gene expression and I am interested in the molecular mechanisms underlying this regulation and its roles in cell physiology. My research involves developing and applying high-throughput experimental techniques and relies on analysis of large-scale data from these experiments. I'm an associate professor in Molecular and Cell Biology and I have been at UC Berkeley for nine years, joining as junior faculty after starting a lab elsewhere.
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I was trained as an experimental physicist and transitioned to neurobiology as a postdoctoral researcher. I am a junior professor at NIH, UCSD and came to UC Berkeley as an Associated professor.
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