Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics

School of Medicine Faculty (Thesis Advisors):

Molecular Biology, Genetics, & Biochemistry (MBGB)

Hoda Anton-Culver, Ph.D.	Professor & Chief of Epidemiology; Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics; Director of the Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute Cancer and genetic epidemiology, medical informatics
Lee Bardwell, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology Coupling of cell signaling to gene expression
Bruce Blumberg, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology Hormonal signaling, functional genomics
Rainer Brachmann, M.D.	Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry; Hematology & Oncology Cancer genetics, chromatin and transcriptional regulation, DNA repair, tumor suppression
Hung Fan, Ph.D.	Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Molecular Biology of Retroviruses, Immunology, cancer biology, gene therapy
G. Wesley Hatfield, Ph.D.	Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Chromosome structure and topology, global gene regulation using DNA microarrays and proteomics
Klemens J. Hertel, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Regulation of gene expression by alternative splicing
Haoping Liu, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry Signaling in development, yeast morphogenesis and pathogenesis
Steven Lipkin, M.D./Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Medicine; Biological Chemistry High density oligonucleotide array design and analysis
Ray Luo, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Computational biology, protein structure prediction and folding mechanisms, protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions
Lawrence Marsh, Ph.D.	Professor of Developmental & Cell Biology Developmental genetics
Suzanne Sandmeyer, Ph.D.	Professor & Chair of Biological Chemistry; Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics Director of the UCI DNA Microarray Core Facility Molecular genetics of a position-specific yeast retrovirus-like element, functional genomics, gene regulation using DNA arrays and proteomics
Ming Tan, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics; Division of Infectious Diseases Global gene regulation in Chlamydia using DNA arrays and proteomics
Leslie Thompson, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior; Biological Chemistry Molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis in neurodegenerative diseases and skeletal dysplasias
Luis Villarreal, Ph.D.	Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Director of the Center for Virus Research (CVR) Tissue specific viral gene expression, virus evolution, proteomic approaches to the generation of vaccines and therapeutics against emerging and other infectious agents.
Stephen H. White, Ph.D.	Professor of Physiology & Biophysics Membrane protein folding and stability, structure of fluid lipid bilayers

Other School of Medicine (Thesis Advisors)

Carl Cotman, Ph.D	Professor of Neurology & Behavior; Director of the Institute for Brain Aging and Dementia
Doug Wallace, Ph.D	Professor of Biological Chemistry; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Director of MAMMAG

Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science Faculty (Thesis Advisors)

Pierre Baldi, Ph.D.	Professor of Computer Science; Biological Chemistry; Director of IGB Bioinformatics, computational biology, probabilistic modeling, and machine learning
Dennis Kibler, Ph.D.	Professor of Computer Science Machine learning methods based on genome and gene expression data to find regulatory elements, promoters and unexpected structures
Richard Lathrop, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Computer Science Bioinformatics, computational biology, machine learning, artificial intelligence, protein structure prediction, drug discovery, genetic regulation
Eric Mjolsness, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Computer Science Machine learning, systems biology, computational biology
Padhraic Smyth, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Computer Science Probabilistic modeling, computational statistics, pattern recognition

School of Biological Sciences Faculty (Thesis Advisors)

Adriana D. Briscoe, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Molecular evolution, effects of gene duplication and diversification on phenotypes and biological organization Comparative genomics of color vision
Robin M. Bush, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Molecular evolution of pathogenic organisms
Walter M. Fitch, Ph.D.	Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Molecular evolution
Brandon S. Gaut, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary genetics of plant systems, with emphasis on molecular evolution and population genetics
Anthony D. Long, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Elucidating the molecular genetic basis of polygenic characters using Drosophila melanogaster
Donald F. Senear, Ph.D.	Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Regulatory Energetics and Protein-DNA Assemblies

School of Physical Sciences Faculty (Thesis Advisors)

Richard Chamberlin, Ph.D.	Professor of Chemistry Director Center for Chemical Synthesis Chemical synthesis, drug design
James S. Nowick, Ph.D.	Professor of Chemistry; Director of the Chemical Biology Initiative Design of small to medium sized organic molecules that mimic the structures of proteins
Peter M. Rentzepis, Ph.D.	Professor of Chemistry; Director of CAL(IT)2 Picosecond photochemistry of biological molecules and application to three-dimensional memory devices
A. J. Shaka, Ph.D.	Professor of Chemistry Development of nuclear magnetic resonance techniques for the structure determination of molecules in solution
Sheryl Tsai, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Chemistry Combinatorial biosynthesis of natural products using bioinformatic protocols
Douglas J. Tobias, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Epidemiology Using atomic-scale computer simulation techniques to study the structure of biological molecules
David L. Van Vranken, Ph.D.	Professor of Chemistry Using organic synthesis to connect fundamental chemical principles with biological phenomena such as cancer and aging
Gregory A. Weiss, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor of Chemistry; Co-Director of the Chemical Biology Initiative Using molecular evolution in a test tube (phage display) to explore the chemistry and biology of cells

Henry Samueli School of Engineering Faculty (Thesis Advisors)

Steven C. George, M.D./Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Chemistry; Biochemical Engineering & Materials Science; Director of the Biomedical Engineering Center