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
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
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
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
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
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
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.