Genome Center Faculty

In addition to the genome center faculty listed here who reside in the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility, there are over 40 genome center members who are actively engaged in genomics research across campus. To apply for membership click here.

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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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