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Faculty

	Michael D. Cahalan Distinguished Professor and Chair Research interests: Ion channels, calcium signaling, cell interaction dynamics in the immune system. Cahalan Lab		Geoffrey Abbott Professor Research interests: Ion channel, KCNE, molecular pharmacology, epithelial biology, cardiac arrhythmia Abbott Lab
	Kevin T. Beier Assistant Professor Research interests: Neuroscience, neural circuits, neural plasticity, molecular neuroscience, behavior, technique development, viral-genetic Beier Lab		D. Huw Davies Associate Professor in Residence Research interests: vaccines, adjuvants, influenza, poxviruses, preclinical studies Vaccine Research & Development Center
	Asuka Eguchi Assistant Professor Research interests:Cardiomyopathies, neuromuscular disorders, gene therapy, human induced pluripotent stem cells, genotoxic stress Eguchi Lab		Phil Felgner Professor in Residence Research interests: Vaccines, gene therapy, drug delivery, liposomes, biophysics, protein microarray, epidemiology Vaccine Research & Development Center
	Steven Goldstein Professor and Vice Chancellor of Health Affairs Research interests: Ion channels, cardiac arrhythmia, sudden death, stroke, neurotoxins, hypoxia, single-molecule spectroscopy		Milton Greenberg Assistant Adjunct Professor Research interests: Medical physiology instruction
	Michael Ryan Hicks Assistant Professor Research interests: human pluripotent stem cells, skeletal muscle, stem cell niche, regeneration, self-renewal, transplantation, single cell biology, Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy		Todd C. Holmes Professor Research interests: Ion channels, cellular physiology, neural circuits and behavior; circadian and visual circuits Holmes Lab
	Lan Huang Professor Graduate Faculty Advisor Research interests: Proteomics/mass spectrometry, protein modifications and interaction, proteasomes UCI High-End Mass Spectrometry Facility Huang Lab		Rongsheng Jin Professor Research interests: Structure and function of synaptic proteins, neurotoxins and receptors, protein complexes.
	Barbara Jusiak Assistant Professor Research interests: Synthetic biology, gene circuits, macrophages, cancer, Drosophila		Vladimir Kefalov Professor Research interests: Photoreceptor physiology, retinal neurobiology, phototransduction, visual pigments, sensory adaptation, retinal degeneration, and eye diseases. Kefalov Lab
	Philip D. Kiser Professor Research interests: Vision science, retinoid biochemistry, structural biology, metalloenzymes		Devon Lawson Associate Professor Research interests: Cancer, stem cells, genomics, intra-tumor heterogenity, metastasis, systems biology Lawson Lab
	Francesco Marangoni Assistant Professor Research interests: Immunology, intravital multiphoton microscopy, signal transduction, bioinformatics, lentiviral and retroviral vectors, gene therapy		Shivashankar Othy Assistant Professor Research interests: Dynamics of Immune Regulation, Neuro-Immune Interactions, CNS Autoimmunity, Mechanoimmunology, Vaccine Biology, and Advanced Multiphoton Imaging Othy Lab
	Mitradas Panicker Associate Adjunct Professor Research interests: Role of Piezo1 in neural stem cell differentiation		Medha Pathak Assistant Professor Research interests: Piezo1, ion channels, stem cells, neural stem cells, differentiation, development, mechanical forces, matrix, environment Pathak Lab
	Eric Pearlman Chancellor's Professor and Director, Institute for Immunology Research interests: Innate immunity, bacterial infections, fungal infections, neutrophils, cornea, eye Institute for Immunology		Hamid M. Said Distinguished Professor Research interests: GI Physiology/Patho-physiology; Membrane transport and intracellular trafficking mechanisms; vitamin transport SCIRE Bio
	Harinder Singh Assistant Adjunct Professor MedEd Course Director Research interests: Medical physiology instruction, STEM Workforce Development, Career & Professional Development		Dorota Skowronsk-Krawczyk Assistant Professor Research interests: Mechanism of aging, age-related macular degeneration, molecular mechanisms of glaucoma, Vision Science
	Francesco Tombola Associate Professor and Vice Chair Research interests: Mechanisms of electrical and mechanical sensing in excitable cells, ion channels and receptor enzymes		Armando Villalta Assistant Professor Research interests: Immune cell and organ system interactions that promote tissue injury and repair
	Lisa Wagar Assistant Professor Research interests: human immunology, organoids, infectious diseases, vaccine development, immune microenvironments, adaptive immunity Wagar Lab		Stephen H. White Professor Emeritus on recall Research interests: Structure of membranes and lipid bilayers; peptide-bilayer interactions; protein folding White Lab ›
	Qin Yang Associate Professor Research interests: Epigenetic regulation of insulin resistance and energy expenditure in obesity and type 2 diabetes		Alvin Yu Assistant Professor Research interests: HIV, Viruses, Neural synapses, proteins, computational biophysics, molecular modeling, multi-scale techniques, theory and computation.

Professor Emeritus

Kenneth M. Baldwin (recall faculty)
Research interests: Cellular and molecular regulation of striated muscle: exercise and hormonal alterations
Ralph A. Bradshaw
Research interests: Tyrosine kinase receptor structure/function; N-terminal processing enzymes
K. George Chandy
Research interests: Potassium channels in T-lymphocytes; design of immunosuppresive agents

J. Jay Gargus
Research interests: Functional genomics; molecular pathophysiology of ion pumps, channels, and signaling

James E. Hall (recall faculty)
Research interests: Aquaporins in the lens; amyloid oligomers in Alzheimer's disease
Harry T. Haigler
Research interests: Annexin calcium-binding proteins; interaction with phospholipid membranes
Frances Jurnak
Research interests: Macromolecular crystallography, protein structure, elongation factor Tu, pectate lyase
Janos K. Lanyi (recall faculty)
Research interests: Structure and function of bacterial rhodopsins
Kenneth J. Longmuir (recall faculty)
Research interests: Novel drug delivery systems and (non-viral) gene delivery systems
Irwin A. Rose
Research interests: Recycling of enzymes after catalysis
Larry Vickery
Research interests: Molecular chaperones, protein structure and folding, iron-sulfur proteins

Albert Zlotnik
Research interests: Chemokines, cancer metastasis, genearray analysis of human diseases and bioinformatics in immunology

Joint Faculty Appointments

Tallie Z. Baram
Pediatrics, Anatomy and Neurobiology
Vince Caiozzo
Orthopaedic Surgery
Alan L. Goldin
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Naoto Hoshi
Pharmacology
Autumn S. Ivy
Pediatrics
Wei Ling Lau
Medicine – Nephrology & Hypertension
Jogeshwar Mukherjee
Radiological Sciences
Krzystof Palczewski
Ophthalmology; Gavin Herbert Eye Institute; Center for Translational Vision Research
Ian Parker
Neurobiology & Behavior
Thomas L. Poulos
Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
Nick Vaziri
Medicine – Nephrology & Hypertension
Ping Wang
Medicine – Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

Adjunct Faculty

Gregory R. Adams
Associate Adjunct Professor (recall faculty)

Research interests: Research interests: Skeletal muscle hypertrophy, atrophy, growth factors, cytokines