Hughes Undergraduate Research Lab Advisory Committee

 

Tracy L. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Biology, UC San Diego

B.A., Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UC San Diego

Ph.D., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley

Jane Coffin Childs Fellow, California Institute of Technology

Elizabeth Ross Fellow, California Institute of Technology

Roy Campanella Humanitarian Award

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

 

Biochemical mechanisms of splicing and transcription

 

 

Joseph L. DeRisi, Associate Professor of Biophysics and Biochemistry, UC San Francisco

B.A., Biochemistry UC Santa Cruz

Ph.D., Biochemistry, Stanford University

Priscella Parkins Award

Sandler Fellow, UC San Francisco

JP Morgan Chase Health Award

Searle Scholar

Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA

MacArthur Fellow

 

Genomics of infectious agents

 

 

Douglas L. Black, Professor of Molecular Genetics, UC Los Angeles

B.A., Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz

Ph.D., Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University

Jane Coffin Childs Fellow, Whitehead Institute

Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCLA

Packard Scholar

 

Regulation of alternative splicing

 

 

David Haussler, Professor of Computer Science, UC Santa Cruz

B.A., Mathematics, Connecticut College

M.S., Applied Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, UCSC

UC Presidential Chair in Computer Science

 

Machine learning, bioinformatics, genomics