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.
I received a PhD in Biophysics here at Berkeley studying in the Chemistry department. I discovered the rapidly renaturing "satellite " DNA in drosophila (Dm) and showed that they are located in the heterochromatin. I left posit doc at Cold Spring Harbor Labs and became a virologists studying SV-40 and Adenoviruses. My work there showed that these Viruses integrate without specificity in cells they transformed where replication was non-permissive or very weak. I cloned the first tumor viral chromosomal DNA as showed that the sequences at the junctions were the results of end joining....
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...
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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I earned a B.S. in Physics (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain), PhD in Biophysics (University of Keele, UK - worked at the Synchrotron Radiation Source with Joan Bordas using SAXS (small angle X-ray scattering and cryo-EM to study tubulin assembly). I did my postdoc in biophysics at LBNL (solved the structure of tubulin using electron crystallography working with Ken Downing). In 1998 I joined UC Berkeley's MCB Department as an Assistant Professor and have been here ever since. I have served as Head of the Biophysics graduate program at Berkeley, Head of the MCB Undergraduate...
My lab started at Mass General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in 1981. I moved from Boston to Baylor College of Medicine in 1997, and from Houston to Berkeley in 2020 to join Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology. I have been Chair of NST since July 2022. My research is focused on the family of hormone receptors called the nuclear receptors, which includes the steroid receptors and many other with more recently identified functions.
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