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Jennifer L Derr

Jennifer L Derr

Associate Professor; Founding Director, Center for the Middle East and North Africa at UC Santa Cruz

History Department

Areas of expertise: Disease and Immunity, Science Studies, Environmental Studies, Biomedical Sciences, Capitalism, Colonialism, History, Water


Biography, Education and Training

Education B.S. in Biological Sciences, Stanford University M.A. in Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University Ph.D. in History, Stanford University


Areas of expertise: Conservation, Disease and Immunity, Ecology, Mathematical Modeling, Population Biology, Population Dynamics, Biomedical Sciences, Endangered Species


Biography, Education and Training

B.A. Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles 1995 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles  1995 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1997 Ph.D. Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison 2003 Senior Research Scientist, Ecohealth Alliance (Consortium for Conservation Medicine) 2003-2008 Assistant Professor, UCSC 2008-2013 Associate Professor, UCSC 2014-2018 Professor, UCSC 2019-present


Areas of expertise: Chemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Biophysics, Biochemistry


Biography, Education and Training

B.S., California State University, Los Angeles Ph.D., Cornell University Postdoc, Cornell University


Areas of expertise: Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Biomedical Sciences


Biography, Education and Training

B.A., University of California, San Diego Ph.D., University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, Harvard Medical School

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Raquel Prado

raquel@soe.ucsc.edu

831-459-1488


Areas of expertise: Statistics, Biomedical Sciences



Areas of expertise: Biology, Cell Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Biophysics, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Neuroscience


Biography, Education and Training

Education  1975            B.S., Microbiology, University of Minnesota 1982            M.S., Biology, California State University, Northridge 1986            Ph.D., Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder   Positions  1990-97      Assistant Professor, De... more »

Donald R Smith

Donald R Smith

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs, Distinguished Professor

Microbiology & Environmental Toxicology Department, Institute of Marine Sciences, Chemistry & Biochemistry Department

Areas of expertise: Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience



Areas of expertise: Bioengineering, Biophysics, Viruses and Microbes, Biomedical Sciences, Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Immunology, DNA, RNA, Proteins


Biography, Education and Training

Rebecca studies the molecular mechanisms of human virus surface antigens and antiviral antibodies using a diverse toolkit of structural and biochemical techniques. She uses her discoveries to design novel vaccines and antiviral therapeutics. Before joining UCSC, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, and at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. She received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry at UC San Diego and her bachelor's degree from the Univer... more »

Sofie Reda Salama

Sofie Reda Salama

Acting Professor of Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology, Faculty Director of Diversity, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute

Molecular, Cell, & Developmental Biology Department, Genomics Institute

Areas of expertise: Biomedical Sciences, DNA, RNA, Proteins, Evolution, Genomics, Genetics, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Stem Cells


Biography, Education and Training

  My research involves using pluripotent stem cells from a variety of primate species and high throughput sequencing methods to study how genome evolution affects human development and disease. My lab is located in the Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells. With funding from NIH-NHGRI, we are exploring the mechanisms by which transposable elements lead to new gene regulatory programs important for the evolution of new traits. With funding from NIH-NIMH we are studying the role ... more »


Areas of expertise: Bioinformatics, Molecular Biology, Cancer, RNA Biology, Biology, Biomedical Sciences, Diversity


Biography, Education and Training

Ph.D. Molecular and Cell Biology, 2011, UC Berkeley B.S. Biology with a specialization in Bioinformatics, 2005, UC San Diego


Areas of expertise: Chemical Biology, Chemistry, Biomedical Sciences, Biochemistry


Biography, Education and Training

Post-doc: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Ph.D.: University of California, Davis (Chemistry) B.Sc.: University of Iowa (Chemistry) 

Dianne G Hendricks

Dianne G Hendricks

Associate Teaching Professor

Biomolecular Engineering

Areas of expertise: Biomedical Sciences, Biology, Technical Writing, Science Writing


Biography, Education and Training

Dr. Dianne Hendricks began her position as an Associate Teaching Professor in the Biomolecular Engineering Department at UC Santa Cruz in September 2021. She teaches introductory molecular biology lab courses (BME 121L, 122L, and 123L) and technical communication courses.

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