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Marla Feller

Paul Licht Distinguished Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute

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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John J. Battles

Professor
Environmental Science, Policy & Management

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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Eva Nogales

Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology

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...

Daniel Portnoy

Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biology

I earned my graduate degree in microbiology & Immunology from the University of Washington. I worked on a Postdoc in cellular physiology and immunology from Rockefeller University. I have held faculty positions at Washington University, University of Pennsylvania and UC Berkeley (1997-present).

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David Savage

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...

David Moore

Professor
Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology

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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Christopher Martin

Associate Professor
Integrative Biology

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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Carl Boettiger

Associate Professor
Environmental Science, Policy & Management

My background was originally in physics; my PhD focused on theoretical ecology. My interest in issues of stochasticity and uncertainty has lead me to focus on problems around decision-making under great uncertainty, with connections to economists, computer scientists, and social scientists, in a interdisciplinary field we now think of as data science. I am passionate about teaching and have long been involved in the open science movement, including as founder of two widely recognized projects, https://ropensci.org and...

Britt Glaunsinger

Professor
Molecular & Cell Biology
Plant and Microbial Biology

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...

Benjamin Blackman

Associate Professor
Plant and Microbial Biology

My primary interest is understanding how organisms respond developmentally to environmental signals, and how and why these responses evolve as populations have adapted or will adapt to changing environmental conditions. I run a small to medium sized lab primarily funded by NSF grants, and to gain integrative understanding of our chosen foci, our work embraces a wide range of techniques from detailed studies of molecular mechanisms to genomic studies of archaeological samples to large field experiments. I started at UCB in January 2016 after 3.5 years as junior faculty at UVA, and I...