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Director
![]() | RICHARD MICHELMORE, Ph.D. Professor Novozymes Inc. Endowed Chair in Genomics UC Davis Genome Center Department of Plant Science, CA&ES Section of Cellular and Molecular Biology, DBS Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, SOM email: rwmichelmore Website Plant genomics, disease resistance in plants |
Associate Directors
![]() | PEGGY FARNHAM, Ph.D. Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology School of Medicine email:pjfarnham Website | CV Genome-wide characterization of transcription factor binding sites and chromatin modifications |
![]() | BRUCE RANNALA, Ph.D. Professor UC Davis Genome Center Section of Evolution and Ecology College of Biological Sciences email:brannala@ualberta.ca Website Mathematical modeling and statistical inference with application to human genetics, population genetics and phylogenetics Upcoming Courses: Principles of Biological Data Analysis |
Faculty
![]() | CRAIG BENHAM, Ph.D. Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Mathematics College of Letters and Sciences Section of Math and Physical Sciences Department of Biomedical Engineering College of Engineering email:cjbenham Website Analysis of DNA structural transitions to investigate their roles in biological regulation. |
![]() | KEN BURTIS, Ph.D. Professor Dean of the College of Biological Sciences UC Davis Genome Center Section of Molecular Biology College of Biological Sciences email: kcburtis DNA repair in Drosophila; Drosophila genomics |
![]() | LUCA COMAI, Ph.D. Professor College of Biological Sciences UC Davis Genome Center Plant Biology email: lcomai website We study how changes in chromosome number and type affect regulation and function of genes and genomes using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. We are developing TILLING services (targeted induced point mutations) for rice and wheat. |
![]() | YONG DUAN, Ph.D. Associate Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Applied Sciences College of Engineering email:duan website | Postdoc Positions Computational biology and computational biophysics |
![]() | JONATHAN EISEN, Ph.D. Professor UC Davis Genome Center Section of Evolution and Ecology College of Biological Sciences Dept. of Medical Microbiology and Immunology School of Medicine email:jaeisen website | Blog Microbial Genomics |
![]() | MARC FACCIOTTI, Ph.D. Assistant Professor UC Davis Genome Center Biomedical Engineering College of Engineering email:mtfacciotti website Systems biology, structure and dynamics of gene regulatory networks, biological systems engineering, protein structure and engineering, microbial systems, archaea |
![]() | KRZYSZTOF FIDELIS, Ph.D. Research Faculty UC Davis Genome Center email:kfidelis website Modeling of protein structure; CASP: Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction; Gene regulation |
![]() | OLIVER FIEHN, Ph.D. Associate Professor UC Davis Genome Center Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology College of Biological Sciences email: ofiehn Website | Postdoc Positions Improving metabolomic methods with respect to analytics, data extraction and data mining,and applying these methods to select biological questions. |
![]() | PATRICE KOEHL, Ph.D. Associate Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Computer Science College of Engineering email:koehl@cs.ucdavis.edu Website | CV Computational protein sequence design, protein structure prediction |
![]() | IAN KORF, Ph.D. Assistant Professor UC Davis Genome Center Section of Molecular Biology College of Biological Sciences email:ifkorf Website Developing accurate computational models of genomic sequence features for predicting and understanding biological function Upcoming Courses Gene Finding |
![]() | BERTRAM LUDAESCHER, Ph.D. Associate Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Computer Science College of Engineering email: ludaesch Website Management of scientific data, in particular ontology-enabled data integration and scientific workflows. |
![]() | KATIE POLLARD Ph.D. Assistant Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Statistics email:kspollard Website Primate genomics,Human variation,High dimensional data,Statistical programming Upcoming Courses: Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics Seminar in Statistics & Biostatistics. |
![]() | DAVID SEGAL Ph.D. Assistant Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology School of Medicine email:djsegal Website | Postdoc Positions |
![]() | MICHAEL WRIGHT Ph.D. Assistant Professor UC Davis Genome Center Department of Medical Pharmacology and Toxicology School of Medicine email:mewright Website Utilizing mass spectrometry based methods to study protein networks/modifications in cancer |
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