Biomolecular Engineering

People: Faculty

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	Mark Akeson Chair, Biomolecular Engineering Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1038 Physical Sciences, Room 408 Mail Stop SOE2 Office Hours: Wednesday 2-4 pm. Appointments (~15 min) strongly recommended (contact makeson@soe.ucsc.edu)
	Research Areas: DNA structure and dynamics, single molecule biophysics, bioethics, nanopore technology

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	Phillip Berman Jack Baskin Endowed Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-3529 Physical Sciences, Room 405E Mail Stop SOE2
	Research Areas: Drug development, vaccines, AIDS, monoclonal antibody therapeutics, immunology, molecular cell/biology, recombinant protein production (commercial scale)

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	David Deamer Research Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-5158 Physical Sciences, Room 405B Mail Stop SOE2
	Research Areas: Membrane biophysics, nanopore analysis, DNA sequencing, biomolecular self-assembly.

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	Camilla Forsberg Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-2111 Physical Sciences, Room 310 Mail Stop SOE2
	Research Areas: Hematopoietic stem cells, transcriptional regulation; chromatin; blood cell development; cell surface receptors; genomics

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	Dietlind Gerloff Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-4833 Physical Sciences, Room 320 Mail Stop SOE2
	Research Areas: Protein to protein interactions, protein function prediction, functional genomics, protein structure prediction

	Richard Edward Green Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-502-7394 Physical Sciences, Room 312 Mail Stop SOE2
	Research Areas: Genomics, computational molecular biology, genome assembly, human evolutionary genetics, ancient DNA, high-throughput sequencing, mRNA-processing and alternative splicing

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	David Haussler Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Director, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering Distinguished Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-2105 Engineering 2, Room 501A Mail Stop CBSE/ITI Office Hours: By Appointment
	Research Areas: Cancer genomics, immunogenomics, molecular evolution, neurodevelopment, comparative genomics, bioinformatics, computational molecular biology, statistical models, machine learning , neural networks

	Richard Hughey Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Chair, B.S. in Bioengineering Professor, Biomolecular Engineering Professor, Computer Engineering	831-459-4908 Kerr Hall Mail Stop SOE3 Office Hours: By appointment: mfaluffi@ucsc.edu
	Research Areas: Bioinformatics, Hidden Markov Models, Computer Architecture, Parallel Computation

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	Kevin Karplus Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-4250 Physical Sciences, Room 318 Mail Stop SOE2 Office Hours: By appointment only
	Research Areas: Genome assembly from next-generation sequence data. (Formerly protein structure prediction)

	Brian Kidd Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering	Physical Sciences, Room 405A
	Research Areas: Statistical modeling of multidimensional datasets, creating data-driven models for personalized medicine

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	Todd M. Lowe Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1511 Physical Sciences Building 316 Mail Stop SOE2 Office Hours: Monday 1-2pm, Wednesday 11am-Noon, and by email appt.
	Research Areas: Experimental and computational genomics, non-coding RNA gene finders, high-throughput small RNA sequencing, small RNA roles in cancer, evolution of RNA-based gene regulation

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	Nader Pourmand Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering Director, UCSC Genome Sequencing Center	831-502-7315 Baskin Engineering, Room 261B Mail Stop SOE2 Office Hours: By appointment
	Research Areas: Bioelectronics, Biosensors, chemosensors, nanotechnology, single cell characterization, sequencing, genotyping, pathogen detection, DNA fingerprinting

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	Wendy Rothwell Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1623 Physical Sciences, Room 405A Mail Stop SOE2 Office Hours: MWF 2pm-3pm
	Research Areas: Biotechnology, molecular genetics

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	Josh Stuart Associate Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-1344 Physical Sciences, Room 308 Mail Stop SOE2 Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 pm - 11:00 am
	Research Areas: Computational functional genomics, comparative analysis of gene regulation, cross-species inference of gene networks, probabilistic graphical models, cancer genomics

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	Jonathan Trent Adjunct Professor, Biomolecular Engineering	Physical Sciences, Room 405C Mail Stop SOE2
	Research Areas: Organic aggregates, marine snow, microbial physiology, microenvironments, robust proteins, genetic engineering for nanotechnology

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	Boaz Vilozny Postdoctoral Scholar, Biomolecular Engineering Lecturer, Biomolecular Engineering	831-459-4382 (Office) Baskin Engineering, Room 206 Mail Stop SOE2 Office Hours: By appointment

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