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Research: Organic, Bioorganic, and Materials Chemistry — Self-assembling networks of inorganic nanocrystals from modified cytoskeletal proteins, functionalized viral capsids for drug delivery and 3-D nanomaterial construction, and new synthetic methods for site-specific protein modification Research in the Francis group is focused on the development of new synthetic methods for the construction of nanoscale materials. The…
Education Matt Traxler received his BS and PhD in microbiology from the University of Oklahoma,and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School. His PhD studies used whole-genometranscriptomics and network analyses to understand stress responses in E. coli.His postdoctoral studies have included the use of NanoDESI and MALDI-TOF imagingmass spectrometry to examine chemical exchange during…
Research Interests Our research program focuses on understanding how microbial pathogens target the machinery of their host cells during infection, with the overall goals of revealing crucial mechanisms of infectious disease and uncovering fundamental cellular mechanisms of general biological importance. The tiny microbes that cause disease often colonize their larger host cells through an ability to target important cellular structures and pathways. Thus, understanding how microbes…
Research Interests Within each of our cells, the genetic control of metabolism is split between the nuclear genome and a multitude of small, circular mitochondrial genomes. The co-inheritance and -regulation of these genomes is required for aerobic life. Mitochondrial DNA defects cause hereditary metabolic diseases that impact tissues with high energy demand, such as the brain,…
Sanjay Kumar, M.D., Ph.D., is the E.H. and Mary E. Pardee Professor and Director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at UC Berkeley (QB3-Berkeley). His primary appointment is in the Department of Bioengineering (which he chaired from 2019-22), with joint appointments in the UC Berkeley Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, the UCSF Department…
Research Bio Ziyang Zhang is an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology in the Department of Chemistry. His lab creates chemical tools to tweak our immune system and enable new therapeutic mechanisms for cancer and autoimmune diseases. The Zhang lab integrates organic chemistry, chemical proteomics and functional genomics to discover new mutant-specific covalent ligands and chemical modulators of…
Daniel Fletcher is the Purnendu Chatterjee Chair in Engineering Biological Systems and a professor of Bioengineering. He joined the bioengineering faculty in 2002 and advanced from Associate Professor to Professor in mid 2010. He is also currently serving as Vice Chair for Bioengineering. His research interests include optical and force microscopy, microfabrication, mechanical properties of…
Research Bio Britt Glaunsinger is a molecular virologist whose research investigates how virus–host interactions influence gene expression during infection. She is best known for her work on herpesviruses, revealing how viral proteins manipulate cellular RNA synthesis and fate. Glaunsinger’s lab integrates molecular biology, genomics, and cell biology to study how viruses co-opt host machinery and…
Research Interests Communication between stem cells and their niche (stem-niche) is foundational for the collective cellular behavior of tissue repair and regeneration. The variable capacity to repair organs across different species is often dictated by differential stem-niche communication, highlighting the vast potential of modulating this cellular crosstalk towards regenerative therapies. However, the failure of clinical…
Research Description The Streets lab is interested in applying lessons from mathematics, physics, and engineering, to invent tools that help us dissect and quantify complex biological systems. Our goal is to uncover laws that govern the interactions of molecules inside the cell and the interactions between cells in a tissue or organism, by making precision…
