Department of Biological Chemistry, UCLA

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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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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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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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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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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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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David S. Eisenberg

David Eisenberg is currently Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry, as well as HHMI Investigator.  Before he came to UCLA, Eisenberg earned an A.B. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College and a D.Phil. from Oxford...

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Edward M. De Robertis

Born in Boston, Mass., Edward M. De Robertis grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay where he received his M.D. in 1971.  After completing a Ph.D. in Chemistry at the Leloir Institute in Argentina, he trained in Xenopus embryology under Sir John Gurdon in...

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James A. Wohlschlegel

James Wohlschlegel, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.  He attended Texas A&M University in College Station, TX as an undergraduate and received his Bachelor...

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Alexander M. van der Bliek

Alexander M. van der Bliek, Ph.D., is Professor of Biological Chemistry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. After gaining experience with plant...

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Leonard H. Rome

Leonard H. Rome, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Biological Chemistry and Associate Director of the California NanoSystems Institute. He served as the Senior Associate Dean for Research in the School of Medicine from 1997 to 2012. Dr. Rome...

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