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Biomolecular Science and Engineering

Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences
2703 Ellison Hall
Telephone: (805) 893-2290
Admission Inquiries Email: BMSE-gradasst@lifesci.ucsb.edu
General Program Inquiries Email: BMSEprog@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Website: www.bmse.ucsb.edu
Program Director: Joel Rothman


 
Faculty
Cherie Briggs, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor (theoretical ecology and systems biology) Joint Appointment: EEMB
Dennis Clegg, PhD, UC Berkeley, Professor (molecular and cellular neurobiology; stem cell biology and engineering; ocular disease) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Zvonimir Dogic, PhD, Brandeis University, Professor (Experimental soft matter physics) Joint Appointment: PHYS
Deborah Fygenson, PhD, Princeton University, Professor (experimental biophysics) Joint Appointment: PHYS
Brandon Greene, PhD, Emory University, Assistant Professor (redox biology, enzymology, and bioenergy) Joint Appointment: CHEM
Christopher Hayes, PhD, University of Connecticut, Professor (molecular biology of inter-bacterial competition, type V and VI secretion systems, biochemistry of toxin-immunity protein pairs) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Luc Jaeger, PhD, University Louis Pasteur, Professor (nucleic acid nanotechnology, synthetic biology, nano-biotechnology, RNA structures, RNA evolution, biomaterials, nanomedicine) Joint Appointment: CHEM
Kenneth Kosik, MA, MD, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Professor (neurodegeneration, biophysics of neuroconnectivity, stem cells, synaptic plasticity, microRNAs, evolution of the nervous system) Joint Appointment: MCDB
John Lew, PhD, University of Calgary, Associate Professor (biochemistry, molecular biology, enzymology) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Matthieu Louis, PhD, University of Cambridge, Associate Professor (systems biology, systems neuroscience, behavioral neurogenetics) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Michael Mahan, PhD, University of Utah, Professor (microbial pathogenesis; molecular mechanisms of infectious disease, antibiotic resistance; sepsis; vaccine development) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Cristina Marchetti, PhD, University of Florida, Professor (Theoretical soft matter and biological physics) Joint Appointment: PHYS
Craig Montell, PhD, UC Los Angeles, Professor (biomedical sciences; neuroscience) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Denise Montell, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (biomedical sciences; developmental & stem cell biology) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Beth Pruitt, PhD, Stanford University, Professor (Mechanobiology, microfabrication, engineering and science, engineering microsystems, and biointerfaces for quantitative mechanobiology.) Joint Appointment: ME BIOE
Norbert Reich, PhD, UC San Francisco, Professor (theoretical biophysical chemistry) Joint Appointment: CHEM
Joel Rothman, PhD, University of Oregon, Professor (biochemical and genetic studies of cellular differentiation and reprogramming; regulation of cell signaling, proliferation, and death) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Omar Saleh, PhD, Princeton University, Professor (single-molecule biophysics, motor proteins, DNA-protein interactions) Joint Appointment: MATRL PHYS
Ambuj Singh, PhD, University of Texas, Professor (machine learning and data mining, network science, social networks, databases, bioinformatics, chemoinformatics) Joint Appointment: CMPSC
William Smith, PhD, UC Santa Cruz, Professor (developmental biology of marine invertebrate chordates) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Sebastian Streichan, PhD, University of Saarland, Associate Professor (Biophysics) Joint Appointment: PHYS
Niels Volkmann, Professor Joint Appointment: BIOE ECE
Herbert Waite, PhD, Duke University, Professor (comparative biochemistry, marine biomolecular materials, micro and nanomechanics, bioadhesion) Joint Appointment: MCDB CHEM

 
Emeriti Faculty
John Carbon, PhD, Northwestern University (biochemistry) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Louise Clarke, PhD, UC Santa Barbara (biochemistry, genetics) Joint Appointment: MCDB
James Cooper, PhD, Washington University Joint Appointment: MCDB
John Gerig, PhD, Brown University Joint Appointment: CHEM
David Low, PhD, UC Irvine Joint Appointment: MCDB
Daniel Morse, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (molecular biology, bio-nanotechnology, biomolecular materials, marine biotechnology, biophotonics) Joint Appointment: MCDB
Stanley Parsons, PhD, California Institute of Technology Joint Appointment: CHEM
Charles Samuel, PhD, UC Berkeley Joint Appointment: MCDB
Duane Sears, PhD, Columbia University Joint Appointment: MCDB
Carol Vandenberg, PhD, UC San Diego Joint Appointment: MCDB
Leslie Wilson, PhD, Tufts University (microtubule dynamics, functions, and anticancer drug mechanisms) Joint Appointment: MCDB

 
Affiliated Faculty
Frank Brown, PhD (Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics)
Alison Butler, PhD (Chemistry and Biochemistry)
Rick Dahlquist, PhD (Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology)
Everett Lipman, PhD (Physics)
Cyrus Safinya, PhD (Materials, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology)
Joan-Emma Shea, PhD (Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics)
Boris Shraiman, PhD (Physics)
Galen Stucky, PhD (Chemistry and Biochemistry, Materials)