The chemical biology community at UC Davis includes a large group of productive, well funded and collaborative faculty members with a strong history of mentoring pre-doctoral students. Our faculty comprises 29 trainers with primary appointments in six different departments across five different colleges.
Alphabetical Listing
- James Ames | Biophysical chemistry and structural biology
- Shota Atsumi | Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
- Peter Beal | Nucleic acids chemical biology
- R. David Britt | Biological and synthetic energy catalysis, metalloenzymes, EPR spectroscopy
- Randy Carney | Nanoplasmonics, Raman spectroscopy/SERS, exosomes, cancer diagnostics
- Xi Chen | Chemical biology/glycoscience
- Sheila David | Chemical biology of DNA repair
- Oliver Fiehn | Mass spectrometry and computation chemistry for metabolomics
- Andrew Fisher | Protein structure-function and X-ray crystallography
- Annaliese Franz | Organic synthesis, catalysis, and biofuels
- Christopher Fraser | Cellular and viral mRNA translation in humans
- Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague | Natural products synthesis, tea chemistry, and phytoceuticals
- Bruce Hammock | Biological chemistry of regulatory lipids, medicinal chemistry
- Marie Heffern | Bioinorganic chemistry in nutrition and diseases, chemical biology and imaging
- Christina Kim | Functional and biochemical mapping of neural circuits using in vivo imaging, single-cell RNA sequencing, and proteomics
- Kit Lam | Lymphoma, targeted therapy for cancer, molecular imaging, drug development and combinatorial chemistry
- Carlito Lebrilla | Bioanalytical mass spectrometry
- James Letts | Membrane protein electron transport complexes in bioenergetics and immunity
- Angelique Louie (Biomedical Engineering) | Molecular imaging and novel imaging probes
- Elizabeth Neumann | Understanding the molecular and cellular architecture behind neurological diseases
- David Olson | Organic synthesis and chemical neuroscience
- David Segal | Genome engineering tools and therapeutics
- Nitzan Shabek | Molecular mechanisms of signaling pathways and their regulation by proteolytic systems
- Jared Shaw | Synthetic methods, natural products, chemical biology
- Justin Siegel | Computational enzyme design
- Alexei Stuchebrukhov | Electron and proton transfer dynamics in condensed phases
- Cheemeng Tan | Synthetic biology, artificial cellular systems, gene regulation, cellular heterogeneity, antibiotic treatment
- Dean Tantillo | Theoretical organic chemistry, natural products biosynthesis
- Igor Vorobyov | Molecular modeling and simulations of molecular systems
- David Wilson | Structural biochemistry
- Heike Wulff | Design of potassium channel modulators
- Philipp Zerbe | Unveiling the diversity of plant metabolism for plant and human health
By Graduate Group Affiliation
The faculty listings below are sorted by graduate group affiliations. Graduate groups embody the collaborative spirit of discovery at UC Davis by bringing together scholars from different areas of study who share common research interests, which means many of our faculty belong to more than one graduate program.
- Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
- Shota Atsumi | Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
Peter Beal | Nucleic acids chemical biology
Sheila David | Chemical biology of DNA repair
Oliver Fiehn | Mass spectrometry and computation chemistry for metabolomics
Andrew Fisher | Protein structure-function and X-ray crystallography
Annaliese Franz | Organic synthesis, catalysis, and biofuels
Christopher Fraser | Cellular and viral mRNA translation in humans
Bruce Hammock | Biological chemistry of regulatory lipids, medicinal chemistry
James Letts | Membrane protein electron transport complexes in bioenergetics and immunity
Jamal Lewis | Biomaterials, drug delivery, immuno-engineering
Dylan Murray | Physical chemistry of low sequence complexity protein domains
David Segal | Genome engineering tools and therapeutics
Nitzan Shabek | Molecular mechanisms of signaling pathways and their regulation by proteolytic systems
Jared Shaw | Synthetic methods, natural products, chemical biology
Justin Siegel | Computational enzyme design
Patrick Shih | Engineering and investigating the evolution of metabolic pathways using synthetic biology
Cheemeng Tan | Synthetic biology, artificial cellular systems, gene regulation, cellular heterogeneity, antibiotic treatment
David Wilson | Structural biochemistry
Philipp Zerbe | Unveiling the diversity of plant metabolism for plant and human health - Biomedical Engineering
- Randy Carney | Nanoplasmonics, Raman spectroscopy/SERS, exosomes, cancer diagnostics
Christina Kim | Functional and biochemical mapping of neural circuits using in vivo imaging, single-cell RNA sequencing, and proteomics
Kit Lam | Lymphoma, targeted therapy for cancer, molecular imaging, drug development and combinatorial chemistry
Angelique Louie | Molecular imaging and novel imaging probes
Jamal Lewis | Biomaterials, drug delivery, immuno-engineering
Cheemeng Tan | Synthetic biology, artificial cellular systems, gene regulation, cellular heterogeneity, antibiotic treatment
Igor Vorobyov | Molecular modeling and simulations of molecular systems - Biophysics
- James Ames | Biophysical chemistry and structural biology
R. David Britt | Biological and synthetic energy catalysis, metalloenzymes, EPR spectroscopy
Andrew Fisher | Protein structure-function and X-ray crystallography
James Letts | Membrane protein electron transport complexes in bioenergetics and immunity
Dylan Murray | Physical chemistry of low sequence complexity protein domains
Justin Siegel | Computational enzyme design
Alexei Stuchebrukhov | Electron and proton transfer dynamics in condensed phases
Cheemeng Tan | Synthetic biology, artificial cellular systems, gene regulation, cellular heterogeneity, antibiotic treatment
Igor Vorobyov | Molecular modeling and simulations of molecular systems
David Wilson | Structural biochemistry - Chemistry
- James Ames | Biophysical chemistry and structural biology
Shota Atsumi | Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
Peter Beal | Nucleic acids chemical biology
R. David Britt | Biological and synthetic energy catalysis, metalloenzymes, EPR spectroscopy
Xi Chen | Chemical biology/glycoscience
Sheila David | Chemical biology of DNA repair
Oliver Fiehn | Mass spectrometry and computation chemistry for metabolomics
Andrew Fisher | Protein structure-function and X-ray crystallography
Annaliese Franz | Organic synthesis, catalysis, and biofuels
Jacquelyn Gervay-Hague | Natural products synthesis, tea chemistry, and phytoceuticals
Marie Heffern | Bioinorganic chemistry in nutrition and diseases, chemical biology and imaging
Kit Lam | Lymphoma, targeted therapy for cancer, molecular imaging, drug development and combinatorial chemistry
Carlito Lebrilla | Bioanalytical mass spectrometry
Angelique Louie | Molecular imaging and novel imaging probes
Dylan Murray | Physical chemistry of low sequence complexity protein domains
David Olson | Organic synthesis and chemical neuroscience
Jared Shaw | Synthetic methods, natural products, chemical biology
Justin Siegel | Computational enzyme design
Alexei Stuchebrukhov | Electron and proton transfer dynamics in condensed phases
Dean Tantillo | Theoretical organic chemistry, natural products biosynthesis
Igor Vorobyov | Molecular modeling and simulations of molecular systems
Heike Wulff | Design of potassium channel modulators - Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Sheila David | Chemical biology of DNA repair
Oliver Fiehn | Mass spectrometry and computation chemistry for metabolomics
Bruce Hammock | Biological chemistry of regulatory lipids, medicinal chemistry
Kit Lam | Lymphoma, targeted therapy for cancer, molecular imaging, drug development and combinatorial chemistry
David Segal | Genome engineering tools and therapeutics
Justin Siegel | Computational enzyme design
Heike Wulff | Design of potassium channel modulators