Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA

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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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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Utpal Banerjee

Utpal Banerjee is the Irving and Jean Stone Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles with a joint appointment in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine. In addition, he serves as Co-Director of...

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Leonid Kruglyak

Leonid Kruglyak, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics and Biological Chemistry at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Diller-von Furstenberg Endowed Chair in Human Genetics. Dr. Kruglyak received his A.B. degree...

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Steven E. Jacobsen

Steve Jacobsen did his PhD at the University of Minnesota and postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology with Elliot Meyerowitz. He joined the department of Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology in 1998. He has recieved two...

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Gabriel H. Travis

Gabriel H. Travis is a biochemist and molecular biologist who has been on the faculty at UCLA in Ophthalmology and Biological Chemistry since 2001. Dr. Travis earned his BS degree in chemistry at UCLA, and his MD at UCLA School of Medicine. After...

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Tamir Gonen

Dr Gonen is an expert in electron crystallography and cryo EM. He determined the 1.9Å resolution structure of the water channel aquaporin-0 by electron crystallography, the highest resolution for any protein determined by cryo EM techniques at...

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Peter Tontonoz

Dr. Tontonoz is Professor and the Francis and Albert Piansky Endowed Chair in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. He received his B.A. from Wesleyan University and his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School. His Ph.D. thesis was carried out at...

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