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 have never had a non-academic job in my adult career. I am a dedicated field scientist engaged in long-term, multidisciplinary research. Most of my research occurs in the Sierra Nevada, CA and White Mountains, NH. My first and only professor track job is at Berkeley. So I do know the ropes of the UC system.
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Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular & Cell Biology
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley and an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. I was born and raised in rural Iowa and continue to help manage my family’s farm, which was recognized in 2010 as an Iowa Heritage Farm. I attended Gustavus Adolphus College, where and earned a B.A. in Chemistry and minored in Computer Science. In 2007 I received a Ph.D. from UCSF working on membrane protein structure determination with Robert Stroud. From 2007 to 2011, I was a Life Sciences Research...
I am an evolutionary biologist broadly interested in the ecology, evolution, and genomics of adaptive radiation in fishes. My lab uses field experiments, natural history, population genomics, behavioral ecology, functional morphology, quantitative and functional genetics, and phylogenetic methods to dissect this process at the mesoevolutionary scale in rapid radiations of three or more species.
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I was an MCB major at the University of Arizona, then pursued a PhD in virology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, followed by a postdoc in virology at UCSF. I've been a faculty member at UC Berkeley since 2006, became an HHMI investigator in 2015, and am currently Associate Chair of Plant & Microbial Biology. My research is centered on virus-host interactions that influence gene expression, primarily in the context of herpesvirus infection. This includes viral repurposing and altering of cellular gene regulation machinery to promote virus replication, as well as cellular...