Location(s)
Valley Life Sciences Building, Life Sciences Addition, Barker Hall, Koshland Hall, Stanley Hall
Web site
http://mcb.berkeley.edu
Contact Information
http://mcb.berkeley.edu/main/contact/

Divisions

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Cell and Developmental Biology Genetics, Genomics, and Development Immunology Neurobiology

Faculty

Tom Alber

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structure/function correlates in tuberculosis, molecular recognition and signaling

Mark Alper

Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biochemistry; biomolecular materials

Sharon Amacher

Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Cell fate determination in vertebrate embryonic development

Bruce N. Ames

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mechanisms of aging. Mitochondrial decay in aging. Oxidants and antioxidants in DNA damage. Micronutrient deficiencies and DNA damage. Chronic inflammation and Cancer.

Clinton E. Ballou

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Georjana Barnes

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Microtubule cytoskeleton and cell cycle controls

Greg Barton

Assistant Professor of Immunology

Innate immune system

Diana Bautista

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Molecular mechanisms of transduction in touch and pain receptors

Steven Beckendorf

Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Molecular biology of development

James Berger

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural and mechanistic biochemistry of macromolecular assemblies and machines that regulate the initiation of DNA replication and chromosome and superstructure

Carolyn R. Bertozzi

Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular basis of cell surface interactions

David Bilder

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Genetics of cell and tissue architecture

Michael Botchan

Department Co-Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Eukaryote gene expression

Rachel Brem

Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Genetics of Regulatory Variation

Steven E. Brenner

Associate Professor (Affiliated) of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Computational Genomics

Mary Beth Burnside

Vice Chancellor for Research and Chancellor's Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cell biology of photoreceptors

Carlos Bustamante

Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural characterization of nucleo-protein assemblies

Richard Calendar

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular genetics of viruses

W. Zacheus Cande

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cell and developmental biology

Jamie H. D. Cate

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular Basis for Protein Synthesis by the Ribosome

Michael Chamberlin

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Nucleic acids; gene expression

Lu Chen

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology

Mechanisms of synapse formation during development and synapse modification in plasticity

Steven Chu

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular Physics

Thomas Cline

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Sex determination in Drosophila

Kathleen Collins

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Telomere structure, function and replication

Laurent Coscoy

Assistant Professor of Immunology

Molecular mechanisms of immune evasion in viral infection

Yang Dan

Professor of Neurobiology

Information processed by neuronal circuits

Abby Dernburg

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Chromosome remodeling and reorganization during meiosis

Jennifer A. Doudna

Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Ribozymes and RNA machines

David G. Drubin

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Actin and microtubule cytoskeletons in yeast and mammalian cells

Peter Duesberg

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Genetic structure of retroviruses

Michael B. Eisen

Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Genomics/Bioinformatics

Daniel Feldman

Associate Professor of Neurobiology

Sensory processing and plasticity in cerebral cortex

Marla Feller

Associate Professor of Neurobiology

The role of neural activity in the assembly of retinal circuits

Gary Firestone

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Molecular endocrinology; tumor biology

John G. Flannery

Affiliated Professor of Neurobiology

Molecular mechanisms underlying diseases of the retina

John Forte

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Membrane proteins, transport and energetics

Walter Freeman

Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology

Neurophysiology; nonlinear brain dynamics

James Fristrom

Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Role of transmembrane proteins in cell-cell adhesion and the actin cytoskeleton

Gian Garriga

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Developmental neurobiology; molecular genetics

John Gerhart

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Cell and Developmental Biology

Developmental biology

Robert Glaeser

Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Membrane proteins; structural biology

Donald Glaser

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology

Psychophysics of vision

Alexander Glazer

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Macomolecular complexes; photosynthetic systems

Iswar Hariharan

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Mechanisms of control of growth and cell proliferation

Richard Harland

C.H. Li Distinguished Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Molecular biology of development

Lin He

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

microRNA functions in cancer development, mouse tumor models

Rebecca Heald

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Mitotic spindle assembly and function in Xenopus laevis

Ehud Isacoff

Professor of Neurobiology

Ion channel function and synaptic plasticity

Caroline Kane

Professor in Residence of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Eukaryotic gene regulation during transcript elongation

Gary Karpen

Adjunct Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Chromosome structure and function

Nicole King

Assistant Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Choanoflagellates and the evolution of multicellular animals from their unicellular ancestors

Jack Kirsch

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Enzymology; site-directed mutagenesis

Judith Klinman

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Principles of catalytic and regulatory mechanisms in enzyme-catalyzed reactions

Arash Komeili

Assistant Professor (Affiliated) of Cell and Developmental Biology

Assembly and Subcellular Organization of Bacterial Organelles

Richard H. Kramer

Associate Professor of Neurobiology

Chemical signaling within and between neurons

Bryan A. Krantz

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular Mechanism of Protein Translocation Across Membranes

John Kuriyan

Howard Hughes Investigator and Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structural and functional studies of signal transduction and DNA replication

Harold Lecar

Professor of Neurobiology

Neural biophysics; excitable membranes

Michael Levine

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Regulation of enhancer-promoter interactions

Stuart Linn

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Enzymology of DNA metabolism

Kunxin Luo

Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Signal transduction pathways mediated by receptors and the mechanisms controlling the activity of the receptor kinases

Robert Macey

Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology

Terry Machen

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Epithelial transport; cellular and membrane physiology

Michael Marletta

Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structure/Function Relationships in Proteins

Susan Marqusee

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Determinants of protein structure and folding

G. Steven Martin

Department Chair and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cell biology; tumor virology

Howard Mel

Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology

Barbara Meyer

Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Sex determination in C. elegans

Satyabrata Nandi

Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology

Tumor biology; endocrinology

John Ngai

Professor of Neurobiology

Molecular and cellular mechanisms of olfaction

Hiroshi Nikaido

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Membrane biochemistry; bacterial physiology

Eva Nogales

Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Structure-function of macromolecular assemblies: cytoskeleton self-assembly and nucleic acid transactions

George Oster

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Mathematical modeling of molecular, cellular and developmental systems

W. Geoffrey Owen

Dean of Biological Sciences and Professor of Neurobiology

Membrane biophysics; retinal neurophysiology

Nipam Patel

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Genetic and evolutionary studies of embryonic pattern formation

Mu-ming Poo

Professor of Neurobiology

Neurobiology

Daniel Portnoy

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Molecular and cellular basis of microbial pathogenesis

David Presti

Senior Lecturer of Neurobiology

Neurobiology

Michael Rape

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Protein ubiquitination, degradation and the control of cell division and differentiation

David Raulet

Professor of Immunology

T-cell development and function

Jasper Rine

Howard Hughes Professor and Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Gene regulation; cell biology

Donald Rio

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Molecular genetics; transposable elements; RNA splicing

Ellen Robey

Professor of Immunology

Fate determination in the T-lymphocyte lineage

Daniel S. Rokhsar

Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Collective phenomena and ordering in condensed matter and biological systems

Gerald Rubin

Howard Hughes Investigator and MacArthur Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Molecular genetics; molecular neurobiology

Harry Rubin

Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cell and tumor biology

Howard Schachman

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Physical biochemistry

Randy Schekman

Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Organelle assembly; protein transport

Mark Schlissel

Professor of Immunology

The regulation of lymphocyte development, genetic transcription, chromatin structure, and V(D)J recombination.

Kristin Scott

Associate Professor of Neurobiology

Establishment of nerve cell connectivity in developing nervous systems

William Sha

Associate Professor of Immunology

B cell gene regulation and fate determination

Nilabh Shastri

Professor of Immunology

Mechanisms of immunesurveillance

Herbert Srebnik

Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology

Richard Steinhardt

Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology

Cellular and developmental physiology

Gunther Stent

Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology

Mechanisms underlying embryonic development of the nervous system

Richard Strohman

Professor Emeritus of Cell and Developmental Biology

Cell biology

Mark Tanouye

Professor, Affiliated of Neurobiology

Mechanisms of nervous system structure and function

Jeremy Thorner

William V. Power Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Signal transduction mechanisms; biochemistry; molecular genetics; cell biology

Paola Timiras

Professor Emerita of Cell and Developmental Biology

Neuroendocrinology of development and aging

Robert Tjian

Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Eukaryotic molecular biology; biochemistry

Fyodor Urnov

Associate Adjunct Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development

Engineered zinc finger DNA binding proteins

Russell Vance

Assistant Professor of Immunology

Host-pathogen interactions

Karsten Weis

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Macromolecular transport into and out of the nucleus in eukaryotic cells

David Weisblat

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Developmental biology

Matthew Welch

Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

The role of the actin cytoskeleton in cell locomotion

Frank Werblin

Professor of Neurobiology

Neurophysiology of vision

Gerald Westheimer

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Neurobiology

Neurobiology; psychophysics

Fred Wilt

Professor of the Graduate School Division of Cell and Developmental Biology

Molecular embryology; cell biology

Jeffery Winer

Professor of Neurobiology

Neuroanatomy; comparative neurobiology; neurochemistry

Astar Winoto

Director of Cancer Research Laboratory and Professor of Immunology

Signal transduction, apoptosis, autoimmunity, and chromatin gene regulation

Andrew Wurmser

Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Differentiation of Neural Stem Cells

Qing Zhong

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Programmed cell death

Qiang Zhou

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Biochemistry of HIV gene expression and transcriptional elongation

Robert Zucker

Professor of Neurobiology

Cellular neurophysiology; synaptic biophysics

David Zusman

Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Microbial development; molecular genetics