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 30 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
- 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
- Alec H. Follmer | Advancing the frontiers of metalloenzymology by designing innovative approaches to understand the non-equilibrium dynamics that drive the catalytic processes of metal-containing enzymes
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Matthew Paszek | Investigating how signaling patterns emerge from spatial arrangements outside of thermodynamic equilibrium and what role mechanical forces and biophysical interactions play in organizing biomolecules at molecular length scales
- 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
- 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
- Aijun Wang | Stem cells, biomaterials, tissue regeneration, vascular disease, birth defects
- 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
Christopher Fraser | Cellular and viral mRNA translation in humans
Bruce Hammock | Biological chemistry of regulatory lipids, medicinal chemistry
David Segal | Genome engineering tools and therapeutics - Biomedical Engineering
- Randy Carney | Nanoplasmonics, Raman spectroscopy/SERS, exosomes, cancer diagnostics
Kit Lam | Lymphoma, targeted therapy for cancer, molecular imaging, drug development and combinatorial chemistry
Angelique Louie | Molecular imaging and novel imaging probes
Matthew Paszek | Investigating how signaling patterns emerge from spatial arrangements outside of thermodynamic equilibrium and what role mechanical forces and biophysical interactions play in organizing biomolecules at molecular length scales
Cheemeng Tan | Synthetic biology, artificial cellular systems, gene regulation, cellular heterogeneity, antibiotic treatment
Aijun Wang | Stem cells, biomaterials, tissue regeneration, vascular disease, birth defects
- Biophysics
- James Ames | Biophysical chemistry and structural biology
James Letts | Membrane protein electron transport complexes in bioenergetics and immunity
Justin Siegel | Computational enzyme design
Cheemeng Tan | Synthetic biology, artificial cellular systems, gene regulation, cellular heterogeneity, antibiotic treatment
Igor Vorobyov | Molecular modeling and simulations of molecular systems - Chemistry
- James Ames | Biophysical chemistry and structural biology
Shota Atsumi | Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
Peter Beal | Nucleic acids chemical biology
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
Alec H. Follmer | Advancing the frontiers of metalloenzymology by designing innovative approaches to understand the non-equilibrium dynamics that drive the catalytic processes of metal-containing enzymes
Annaliese Franz | Organic synthesis, catalysis, and biofuels
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
Elizabeth Neumann | Understanding the molecular and cellular architecture behind neurological diseases
David Olson | Organic synthesis and chemical neuroscience
Jared Shaw | Synthetic methods, natural products, chemical biology
Justin Siegel | Computational enzyme design
Dean Tantillo | Theoretical organic chemistry, natural products biosynthesis - 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
Aijun Wang | Stem cells, biomaterials, tissue regeneration, vascular disease, birth defects
Heike Wulff | Design of potassium channel modulators - Integrative Genetics and Genomics
- Randy Carney | Nanoplasmonics, Raman spectroscopy/SERS, exosomes, cancer diagnostics
David Segal | Genome engineering tools and therapeutics
Nitzan Shabek | Molecular mechanisms of signaling pathways and their regulation by proteolytic systems
Cheemeng Tan | Synthetic biology, artificial cellular systems, gene regulation, cellular heterogeneity, antibiotic treatment
Faculty Trainers, please remember to complete the mentorship survey annually! Please submit information regarding at least one mentorship based workshop/training/activity each academic year here!