Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA

Emilie Marcus

Dr. Emilie Marcus, joined the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in March 2018 as Executive Strategy Officer and Adjunct Professor, Biological Chemistry.  As ESO her responsibilities are centered on envisioning the future of a diverse and...

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Aparna Bhaduri

Aparna Bhaduri, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Bhaduri received her B.S. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology and B.A. in Political Science from Rice University in 2007. Dr...

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Michael Elowitz

Programming cellular behaviors with biological circuits Living cells use circuits of interacting genes and proteins to sense and respond to signals, communicate, remember information, and develop into multicellular organisms. These circuits often...

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Kelsey C. Martin

Kelsey C. Martin, M.D., Ph.D., is the Dean for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She received her undergraduate degree in English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University. After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in...

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Hilary A. Coller

Hilary Coller, Ph.D., is Professor of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA and Professor of Biological Chemistry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology...

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John J. Colicelli

John Colicelli grew up in New Jersey and obtained his undergraduate chemistry degree from Rutgers University in 1979.  After two years of service as a teacher in the Peace Corp, Dr. Colicelli studied retrovirus replication with Dr. Stephen Goff...

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Michael F. Carey

Dr. Carey studies biochemical mechanisms of gene activation and silencing. In 1990, Dr. Carey established biochemical systems for studying gene regulation based on a model transcriptional activator termed GAL4-VP16. Using that system, Dr. Carey...

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Utpal Banerjee

Utpal Banerjee is the Irving and Jean Stone Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Los Angeles with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the...

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Jason Ernst

Jason joined the faculty at UCLA in the Department of Biological Chemistry, the Computer Science Department, and the Bioinformatics Program in 2012. Prior to that, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Manolis Kellis’ Computational Biology Group...

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Feng Guo

Dr. Guo is a structural biologist and biochemist who joined the UCLA School of Medicine faculty in July 2004. He earned his B.S. in Biophysics at the Nankai University and M.S. in Physical Chemistry at the Peking University, both in China. Dr...

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Alison R. Frand

Alison joined the faculty of the Department of Biological Chemistry in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in March of 2007. She began studying the molting cycle of C. elegans as a post-doctoral research associate in the laboratory of...

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