Faculty

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics PhD Faculty

Budin, Itay

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Biochemistry and synthetic biology of cell membranes

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 3119
Phone: 858-246-5328
Email: ibudin@ucsd.edu
Web: www.budinlab.com
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Burkart, Michael

Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Associate Director, California Center for Algae Biotechnology
Teddy Traylor Faculty Scholar

Research Topics

Natural product synthesis/biosynthesis, Biological chemistry and enzymology, Metabolic engineering.

Office: Pacific Hall 6100A
Phone: 858-534-5673
Email: mburkart@ucsd.edu
Web: burkartlab.ucsd.edu
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Accepting Rotation Students: Yes

Bussey, Thomas

Associate Teaching Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education

Research Topics

Chemical Education: Visual Literacy in Science, Biochemistry Education, Nano Science Education, K-20 Professional Development, and STEM Career Development

Office: Urey Hall 2258
Phone: 858-822-6665
Email: tbussey@ucsd.edu
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Debelouchina, Galia

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

NMR Spectroscopy, Structural Biology, Chemical Biology, Aging, Gene Regulation

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 4322
Phone: 858-534-3038
Email: gdebelouchina@ucsd.edu
Web: debelouchinalab.ucsd.edu/
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Accepting Rotation Students: Yes

Deshmukh, Lalit

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Solution NMR spectroscopy, Amyloids, Neurodegenerative diseases, Posttranslational modifications, Viruses

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 3113
Phone: 858-246-3343
Email: ldeshmukh@ucsd.edu
Web: https://deshmukhgroup.ucsd.edu/
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Devaraj, Neal

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Murray Goodman Endowed Chair in Chemistry and Biochemistry
Section Chair, Biochemistry and Biophysics

Research Topics

Biomimetic Chemistry, Artificial Cells, Chemical Biology

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 3328
Phone: 858-534-9539
Email: ndevaraj@ucsd.edu
Web: devarajgroup.ucsd.edu
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Donoghue, Daniel

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Co-Director, NIH Training Grant

Research Topics

Receptor Tyrosine Kinases in Human Cancer

Office: Urey Hall 4130
Phone: 858-534-7146
Email: ddonoghue@ucsd.edu
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Ferguson, Fleur

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Assistant Professor, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Office: Tata Hall 1204
Phone: 858-246-4462
Email: fmferguson@ucsd.edu
Web: fergusonlab.ucsd.edu
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Ghosh, Gourisankar

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Biochemistry and biophysics: transcription, signaling, pre-mRNA splicing, mRNA transport, protein-protein, protein-DNA and protein-RNA interactions

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 3103
Phone: 858-822-0469
Email: gghosh@ucsd.edu
Web: gghosh.ucsd.edu
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Ghosh, Partho

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Mechanisms of bacterial and protozoan pathogenesis, and host response against infectious microbes.

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 3105
Phone: 858-822-1139
Email: pghosh@ucsd.edu
Web: pghosh.ucsd.edu
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Gilson, Michael

Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

Research Topics

The physical basis of drug design and development of computational methods

Office: Skaggs/Pharmaceutical Sci Bldg3224
Phone: 858-822-0622
Email: mgilson@ucsd.edu
Web: gilson.ucsd.edu

Guseman, Alex

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Office: Urey Hall
Phone: 858-534-3577
Email: aguseman@ucsd.edu
Web: aguseman.weebly.com
Accepting Rotation Students: Yes

Herzik, Mark

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Elucidating the mechanisms of macromolecular transport into and within mitochondria

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 4105
Phone: 858-246-5875
Email: mherzik@ucsd.edu
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Jennings, Patricia

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Biophysical chemistry: protein structure, dynamics and folding; 2, 3 and 4D NMR spectroscopy; PCR; equilibrium and kinetic-fluorescence, absorbance and circular dichroism spectroscopies

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 3111
Phone: 858-534-6417
Email: pajennings@ucsd.edu
Web: jenningslab.ucsd.edu
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Adrian Jinich

Office: Skaggs/Pharmaceutical Sci Bldg 4246
Phone: 858-534-5362
Email: ajinich@ucsd.edu

Lisa Jones

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

The Jones lab uses oxidative labeling for the structural characterization of proteins in their native cellular environment

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 4103
Phone: 858-534-6455
Email: lijones@ucsd.edu
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Joseph, Simpson

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Molecular Mechanism of Protein Synthesis

Office: Urey Hall 4102
Phone: 858-822-2957
Email: sjoseph@ucsd.edu
Web: josephgroup.ucsd.edu/
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Kim, Judy

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Biophysical chemistry: Spectroscopic studies of membrane protein folding and dynamics

Office: Urey Hall Addn 3040B
Phone: 858-534-8080
Email: judyk@ucsd.edu
Web: galileo.ucsd.edu
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Komives, Elizabeth

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Structure, function, dynamics and thermodynamics of protein-protein interactions: NMR, mass spectrometry and kinetics

Office: Tata Hall 1200B
Phone: 858-534-3058
Email: ekomives@ucsd.edu
Web: komiveslab.ucsd.edu
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Accepting Rotation Students: Yes

Komor, Alexis

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

DNA damage and repair; Genome editing

Office: Urey Hall 4120D
Phone: 858-246-2608
Email: akomor@ucsd.edu
Web: komorlab.ucsd.edu
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McHugh, Colleen

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

RNA-protein interactions; Assembly of RNPs; Structural biology of multimeric complexes

Office: Urey Hall 6206
Phone: 858-822-1995
Email: c1mchugh@ucsd.edu
Web: mchughlab.com
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Mishanina, Tatiana

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Transcription and its regulation; RNA polymerase structure and function in bacteria and human mitochondria

Office: Natural Sciences Bldg 4320
Phone: 858-246-5883
Email: tmishanina@ucsd.edu
Web: mishaninalab.ucsd.edu
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Muller, Ulrich

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Evolution of catalytic RNAs, and the Origin of Life

Office: Urey Hall 5218
Phone: 858-534-6823
Email: ufmuller@ucsd.edu
Web: www.ucsd.edu
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Schoeneberg, Johannes

Assistant Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Roger Tsien Chancelor’s Faculty Fellow

Research Topics

4D adaptive optics lattice light-sheet imaging, petabyte scale image processing, machine learning, mitochondrial dynamics, organoids

Office: CNCB 106
Phone:
Email: jschoeneberg@ucsd.edu
Web: https://www.schoeneberglab.org/
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Schurmeier, Kimberly

Associate Teaching Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Office: Urey Hall 2220
Phone: 858-534-3577
Email: kschurmeier@ucsd.edu

Stallings, Dontarie

Associate Teaching Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Faculty Director, Physical Science Cohort Program

Research Topics

Science Policy (w.r.t. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) | Programmatic Evaluation

Office: Urey Hall 2226
Phone: 858-534-3577
Email: dstallings@ucsd.edu

Stauber, Julia

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Inorganic synthesis, organometallic synthesis, bioinorganic chemistry

Office: Tata Hall 1202
Phone: 858-246-4461
Email: jstauber@ucsd.edu
Web: stauberlab.ucsd.edu/
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Taylor, Susan

Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology
Chancellor's Distinguished Professorship

Research Topics

Structure, Function, Dynamics, and Localization of PKA as a Prototype for the Protein Kinase Superfamily.

Office: Leichtag Bldg 415
Phone: 858-534-3677
Email: staylor@ucsd.edu
Web: susantaylorlab.ucsd.edu
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Tezcan, Akif

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Bioinorganic and biophysical chemistry; Materials and Biomaterials Chemistry, Protein Structure, Function and Evolution

Office: Urey Hall 6202
Phone: 858-534-4862
Email: tezcan@ucsd.edu
Web: tezcan.ucsd.edu
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Accepting Rotation Students: Yes

Toor, Navtej

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Structure and Function of Introns and Retroelements

Office: Urey Hall 5234
Phone: 858-534-3211
Email: ntoor@ucsd.edu
Web: rna.ucsd.edu/
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Wang, Dong

Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science

Research Topics

Transcription, Epigenetics, Chromatin Biology, DNA repair

Office: Skaggs/Pharmaceutical Sci Bldg2266
Phone: 858-822-5561
Email: dow003@ucsd.edu
Web: https://dongwang.ucsd.edu

Wang, Wei

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Research Topics

epigenomics, cellular reprogramming, protein recognition, computational biology, systems biology

Office: Urey Hall 4254
Phone: 858-822-4240
Email: wei-wang@ucsd.edu
Web: wanglab.ucsd.edu
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Yang, Jerry

Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Science and Engineering

Research Topics

Bioorganic Chemistry, Molecular Self-Assembly, Molecular Synthesis, Materials Chemistry, Bionanotechnology

Office: Pacific Hall 6100C
Phone: 858-534-6006
Email: jerryyang@ucsd.edu
Web: yanglab.ucsd.edu
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Zid, Brian

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Research Topics

Gene Expression Control During Stress; mRNA Localization to Membrane-Less Compartments

Office: Urey Hall 5206
Phone: 858-822-6045
Email: zid@ucsd.edu
Web: zidlab.ucsd.edu
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