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Greg Barton joined the faculty at Berkeley in 2005 after graduate training with Alexander Rudensky at the University of Washington and postdoctoral training with Ruslan Medzhitov at Yale University. He is currently Co-Chair of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, C.H. Li Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Immunology and…
Research Bio: Molly Ohainle is an assistant professor of immunology and molecular medicine. Her lab studies how cells are protected from infection by viral pathogens. Viruses and the hosts they infect are locked in an evolutionary arms race in which an array of directly-acting intracellular host defenses are antagonized and evaded by viral pathogens. They…
Research Bio: Dr. Charles Whittaker is an Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at Berkeley Public Health, where he directs the Pandemic and Epidemic Threat Analytics Lab (PETAL). His research focuses on the dynamics, detectability and control of pathogens with pandemic potential, and uses state-of-the-art analytical approaches spanning viral phylodynamics, epidemiological modelling and machine…
Russell Vance obtained his PhD in 2000 under the mentorship of David Raulet at the University of California, Berkeley. He conducted postdoctoral studies in the laboratories of John Mekalanos and Bill Dietrich at Harvard Medical School. He was appointed Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley in 2006, and is currently a Professor and HHMI Investigator. He…
Sarah Stanley, PhD, is a Professor with joint appointments in Molecular and Cell Biology Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine and the School of Public Health Division of Infectious Disease and Vaccinology. Her research focuses strategies for developing new vaccines and therapies for Tuberculosis, an ancient disease that still causes more mortality globally than any…
Research Bio: Tierra Smiley Evans is an assistant professor of Emerging Zoonoses at the School of Public Health with a joint appointment in the department of Integrative Biology. Her research investigates how anthropogenic forest change alters the ecology and evolution of zoonotic viruses. The Smiley Lab studies the relationship between global forest change, biodiversity loss…
Research Bio: Kimberley Seed is an associate professor in the Department of Plant & Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley. Her lab investigates the impact of phages on the evolution and epidemiology of Vibrio cholerae, which is the causative agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera. As a waterborne disease, cholera is a serious threat in…
Research Bio: Dr. Eva Harris is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Director of the Center for Global Public Health, and Chair of the Infectious Diseases and Immunity Graduate Group in the School of Public Health at UC Berkeley. She has developed a multidisciplinary approach to study the molecular virology, pathogenesis, immunology, epidemiology,…
Jeff pursued his graduate studies at UC San Francisco in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Walter, where he made the initial discoveries of the unfolded protein response in yeast and received a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics. He moved to New York for a postdoc. fellowship with Dr. Bill Jacobs at Albert Einstein School of…
Research Bio: The Brook lab uses tools derived from field biology, molecular immunology, and epidemiological modeling to study how pathogens persist, transmit, and evolve in both wild animal and human hosts. Much of our work is focused on zoonotic infections derived from bat reservoirs, and we conduct the majority of our wildlife field studies in…
