People

People

Our faculty members are united by a shared dedication to innovative, multidisciplinary, and collaborative research aimed at advancing scientific frontiers.

Faculty Adjunct Research Staff Postdocs

Faculty

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Chris Amemiya

Chris Amemiya

Professor

camemiya@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 262/261

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David Ardell

David Ardell

Associate Professor

dardell@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 392

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Miriam Barlow

Miriam Barlow

Professor

mbarlow@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 310

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Laura Beaster-Jones

Laura Beaster-Jones

Teaching Professor

lbeaster-jones@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 316

Ruben Michael Ceballos

Ruben Michael Ceballos

Associate Professor

rceballos@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 491

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Michael D. Cleary

Michael D. Cleary

Associate Professor

mcleary4@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 328

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Bercem Dutagaci

Bercem Dutagaci

Assistant Professor

bdutagaci@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 394/396

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Juris Grasis

Juris Grasis

Assistant Professor

jagrasis@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 2 Building, Room 371

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Aaron Hernday

Aaron Hernday

Assistant Professor

ahernday@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 479

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Katrina Hoyer

Katrina Hoyer

Professor

khoyer2@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 473

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Kirk Jensen

Kirk Jensen

Associate Professor

kjensen5@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 2 Building, Room 373

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Patricia LiWang

Patricia LiWang

Professor

pliwang@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 275

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Jennifer Manilay

Jennifer Manilay

Professor

jmanilay@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 467

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Stefan Materna

Assistant Professor

smaterna@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 350

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Michele Nishiguchi

Michele Nishiguchi

Professor

nish@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 435

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Clarissa Nobile

Clarissa Nobile

Professor

cnobile@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 481

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Rudy Ortiz

Rudy Ortiz

Professor

rortiz@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 244

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Nestor Oviedo

Nestor Oviedo

Professor

noviedo2@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 332

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Ramen Saha

Ramen Saha

Associate Professor

rsaha3@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 346

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Fred Wolf

Fred Wolf

Associate Professor

fwolf@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 330

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Stephanie Woo

Stephanie Woo

Associate Professor

swoo6@ucmerced.edu

Office: Science and Engineering 1 Building, Room 348

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Maria-Elena Zoghbi

Maria-Elena Zoghbi

Associate Professor

mzoghbi@ucmerced.edu

Office: Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building, Room 291

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Adjunct Faculty

Amy Rasley

Amy Rasley

Adjunct Professor

arasley@ucmerced.edu

Axel Visel

Axel Visel

Adjunct Professor

avisel@ucmerced.edu

Office: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - DOE Joint Genome Institute

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Zhong Wang

Zhong Wang

Associate Adjunct Professor

zwang37@ucmerced.edu

Office: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Academic Research Staff

E. Maggie Sogin

E. Maggie Sogin

Assistant Professional Researcher

esogin@ucmerced.edu

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Postdoctoral Scholars

Elham Bahramian

Elham Bahramian

Postdoctoral Scholar

ebahramian@ucmerced.edu

Madelaine Brown

Postdoctoral Scholar

madelainebrown@ucmerced.edu

Pegah Mosharaf Ghahfarokhy

Postdoctoral Scholar

pmosharafghahfarok@ucmerced.edu

Deepika Gunasekaran

Postdoctoral Scholar

dgunasekaran@ucmerced.edu

Vivian Rojas

Vivian Rojas

Postdoctoral Scholar

vivianrojas@ucmerced.edu

Ryoichi Sono

Postdoctoral Scholar

msono@ucmerced.edu

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