Julia Bailey-Serres
Distinguished Professor of Genetics
Director, Center for Plant Cell Biology
Botany and Plant Sciences Department
Area(s) of Expertise: Gene Regulation; Translational Control; Abiotic Stress Signaling/Response; Low Oxygen Sensing; Flooding/Submergence; Genome Technologies
Harvey Blanch
Professor of the Graduate Division
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise: Biological Engineering; Biothermodynamics; Metabolic Engineering; Enzyme Engineering
Katherine Borkovich
Professor and Plant Pathologist; Department Chair; Fungal Cell Biologist/Biochemist
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Environmental Sensing and Signal Transduction in Fungi; Fungal Genetics; High-throughput Genomics; Heterotrimeric G proteins; Two-component Regulatory Systems
Chia-en Chang
Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Modeling; Computational Biology/Chemistry
Meng Chen
Professor of Cell Biology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Light Signaling in Plants; Nuclear Organization; Chloroplast Development
Xuemei Chen
Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Development; Small Regulatory RNAs
Xinping Cui
Professor of Statistics
Statistics
Area(s) of Expertise: Design and Analysis of Gene Expression Experiments Using DNA Microarrays; SNP/SFP Discovery Using DNA Microarrays
Sean Cutler
Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Chemical Genomics; Analysis and Exploitation of Natural Variation Using Small Molecules
Katayoon (Katie) Dehesh
Director, Institute for Integrative Genome Biology; Ernst and Helen Leibacher Endowed Chair; Professor of Molecular Biochemistry
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Biochemistry
Shou-Wei Ding
Professor of Molecular Virology and Immunology
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Host-virus Interactions in Insects and Plants; RNA Silencing
Thomas Eulgem
Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Immune Biology; Defense Signaling; Gene Regulation; Transcriptomics; Functional Genomics
Emma Gachomo
Assistant Professor Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Microbiology and Plant Pathology
Area(s) of Expertise: Biology and ecology of soil-borne pathogens and their interactions with plants and other rhizosphere microbes.
Xin Ge
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Therapeutic Antibody Discovery and Engineering; Directed Evolution of Enzymes, Metabolic Pathways and Microbial Stains; Next-Generation DNA Sequencing and Bioinformatics
Juan Pablo Giraldo
Assistant Professor of Plant Physiology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Physiology with a Nanobiotechnology Approach: Photosynthesis, Vascular Transport, Nanosensors, Nanobionics
Thomas Girke
Professor of Bioinformatics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Bioinformatics; Cheminformatics; Drug informatics; Databases; Expression Data Analysis, Protein Function Predictions; Data Mining; Network Analysis and Systems Biology
Venugopala (Reddy) Gonehal
Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Gene Networks; Live Imaging; Stem Cells; Development
Simon "Niels" Groen
Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology
Nematology
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant-nematode Interactions, Plant-insect Interactions, Plant Stress Tolerance, Evolutionary Genomics, Quantitative Systems Biology
Anthony Huang
Professor of Plant Physiology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Cell and Developmental Biology; Flowering; Seed Lipids and Proteins; Genetic Engineering of Seed Lipids and Proteins; Flower Anther Cell Biology and Development
Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia
Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Biostatistics; Quantitative Genetics; Genomic Selection; Bioinformatics; Cancer Genomics
Tao Jiang
Professor & Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair
Computer Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Computational Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics; Combinatorial Algorithms
Hailing Jin
Professor of Genetics & Cy Mouradick Endowed Chair
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Small RNA-mediated Gene Regulation in Plant Immunity
Robert Jinkerson
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Algae; biofuels and bioproducts; bioinformatics and systems biology; coral-algal symbiosis; endosymbiosis
Adam Jozwiak
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biochemistry
Botany & Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Metabolomics, Plant Natural Products, Triterpenoids, Biosynthetic Pathways, Mass Spectrometry for Metabolite Identification
Howard Judelson
Professor of Plant Pathology
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Biology; Genetics; Developmental Biology; Plant Pathogen; Fungi
Isgouhi Kaloshian
Professor of Nematology
Nematology
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant-nematode and plant-aphid interactions; Aphid effectors
Fedor (Ted) Karginov
Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Neuroscience
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Area(s) of Expertise: MicroRNAs; RNA-protein Interactions; RNA-binding Proteins; Post-transcriptional Regulation
Sunil K Kenchanmane Raju
Assistant Professor of Plant Resilience
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Comparative epigenomics, single-cell omics, gene duplication and regulatory element evolution, development and environmental adaptation
Daniel Koenig
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Botany & Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant genetics, genomics and evolution
Karine Le Roch
Professor of Cell Biology
Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Area(s) of Expertise: Functional Genomics of Human Malaria Parasite, Plasmodium falciparum; Transcriptional Profiling; Cell Cycle Progression Kinases and Ubiquitin/Proteasome Pathway; Interactome of P. falciparum; Drug Discovery Against the Malaria Parasite
Bai-lian (Larry) Li
Professor of Plant Ecology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Quantitative Plant Ecology; Ecological Complexity and Modeling; Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology; Systems Ecology; Landscape Ecology; Computational Biology; Ecological Informatics
Yanran Li
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Synthetic Biology, Natural Products, Metabolic Engineering, Yeast Engineering
Jiayu Liao
Professor of Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Chemical Biology; Signal Transduction Pathways; Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier Ligase; G Protein-coupled Receptors; Fatty Acid Induced Insulin Resistance; High-throughput Screening; Bioinformatics
Amy Litt
Associate Professor of Plant Evolution and Development
Botany & Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Evolution; Plant Evolutionary Development; Plant Morphology
Stefano Lonardi
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Computational Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics; Data Mining; Algorithm Design
Wenxiu Ma
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Statistics
Area(s) of Expertise: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Statistical Modeling in Genomics; Machine Learning; Data Mining
Morris Maduro
Professor of Biology
Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology
Area(s) of Expertise: Cell Fate Specification; Gene Regulatory Networks; Transcription Factors; Animal Embryonic Development; Evolution of Gene Networks
Patricia Manosalva
Assistant Professor; Director, UCR Avocado Rootstock Breeding Program
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions; Plant Pathology; Molecular Biology; Plant Resistance; Plant Genetics and Genomics
Kerry E Mauck
Associate Professor of Entomology and Alfred M. Boyce Endowed Chair in Entomology
Entomology and cooperating faculty member in Botany & Plant Biology, Microbiology, and Plant Pathology Departments
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Volatile Chemistry, Chemical Ecology, Mechanisms of Plant Resistance to Insects and Pathogens, Plant Priming and Defense Induction in Crop Protection.
Yujie Men
Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Chemical Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Environmental Microbiology; Contaminants of Emerging Concerns; Antimicrobial Resistance; PFAS; Bioremediation
Dawn Nagel
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Botany & Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Circadian Clock, Temperature Regulation, Transcriptional Networks
David Nelson
Associate Professor of Genetics
Botany & Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant hormones, signaling, molecular genetics, germination
Eugene Nothnagel
Professor of Plant Physiology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise: Arabinogalactan-protein Structure and Function; Plant Cell Wall Structure and Function; Industrial Applications of Arabinogalactan-proteins in Gums; Biofuels from Cell Wall Polymers; Teaching
Michael Pirrung
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Microarrays; Chemical Genetics
Natasha Raikhel
Distinguished Professor of Plant Cell Biology, Emerita
Botany and Plant Sciences
Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise: Endosomal and Vacuolar Trafficking in Plant Cells
A.L.N. Rao
Professor of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Plant Virology; Virus Replication; Virus-host Interactions; Virus Cell-to-cell Movement and Mechanism of Genome Packaging in Positive-strand RNA Viruses
Carolyn G. Rasmussen
Associate Professor of Plant Cell Biology
Botany & Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Cell Division in Plants; Live Cell Imaging
Victor Rodgers
Professor of Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Biotransport; Bioreactions in Cells; Thermodynamics of Concentrated Proteins in Solution
Caroline Roper
Associate Professor of Plant Pathology
Plant Pathology
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular basis of the host/pathogen interactions of vector borne plant pathogenic bacteria
Amit Roy-Chowdhury
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Computer Vision; Image Processing; Pattern Recognition; Video Communications
Danelle Seymour
Assistant Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Genetics; Genomics; Breeding of Citrus
Patricia Springer
Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Developmental Biology; Molecular Biology; Gene Regulation; Leaf Development
Jason Stajich
Professor of Bioinformatics
Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Area(s) of Expertise: Bioinformatics; Genomics; Mycology; Evolutionary & Population Biology; Molecular Evolution
Jaimie Van Norman
Assistant Professor of Plant Cell & Developmental Biology
Botany & Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Biology; Root Development; Tissue and Organ Patterning; Intercellular Signaling
Linda Walling
Professor of Genetics
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Plant Responses and Resistance Mechanisms to Whiteflies; Role of Leucine Aminopeptidase in Retrograde Signaling in Response to Biotic Stress
Yinsheng Wang
Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Oxidative DNA Damage; Covalent Modifications of Proteins
Susan Wessler
Neil A. and Rochelle A. Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovations in Science Education; Distinguished Professor of Genetics;
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor; Home Secretary, U.S.National Academy of Sciences
Botany and Plant Sciences
Area(s) of Expertise: Transposable Elements in Plants with a Focus on the Characterization of Active Transposable Elements and a Determination of How They Contribute to Genome Evolution and Adaptation
Ian Wheeldon
Associate Professor of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Area(s) of Expertise: Protein and Metabolic Engineering; Biocatalysis; Synthetic Biology
S. Hollis Woodard
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Entomology
Area(s) of Expertise: Bees; Behavior; Genomics; Evolution; Nutritional Ecology
Zhenbiao Yang
Professor of Cell Biology
Botany and Plant Sciences
Emeritus
Area(s) of Expertise: Molecular Cell Biology; G Protein-mediated Signaling Networks and Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Polarity and Cell Morphogenesis in Arabidopsis
Wenwan Zhong
Professor of Chemistry
Chemistry
Area(s) of Expertise: Bioanalytical Chemistry; Chromatographic Separation; High-throughput Screening; Biosensing