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Eva de Alba

Eva de Alba

Professor

edealbabastarrechea@ucmerced.edu

BSP 267, Labsite

  • Structural Biology
  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry of macromolecules and macromolecular assemblies (emphasis on inflammation and cellular death)
  • Protein Engineering
  • NMR Spectroscopy

Hirosha Geekiyanage

Assistant Professor

dgeekiyanage@ucmerced.edu

BSP 379, Labsite

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenous small RNAs of 21–22 nucleotides with a significant role in gene regulation. They base-pair with the 3’UTR of a targeted mRNA whilst in association with Argonaute, the effector protein of the miRNA mediated silencing complex (miRISC), and causes translation repression and/or degradation. We are interested in understanding the fundamental properties of cell intrinsic miRNA and extracellular miRNA that are found in cell free body fluids and their contribution to viral infections, disease pathologies, disease diagnosis and treatment.
Arvind Gopinath

Arvind Gopinath

Associate Professor

agopinath@ucmerced.edu

BSP 323, Labsite

  • Mechanics in biology
  • Biomechanics, Mechanobiology and signaling in Chlamydomonas cilia
  • Phototaxis in algae
  • Biofluids and Biothermodynamics
  • Multicellular motility and mechanics
  • Statistical physics of active systems
  • Biophysic
Victor Muñoz

Victor Muñoz

Professor

vmunoz3@ucmerced.edu

BSP 261, Labsite

  • Biophysics
  • Quantitative and synthetic biology
  • Protein folding, evolution and design
  • Protein engineering
  • Optical spectroscopy
  • Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy (NMR)
  • Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
  • Laser spectroscopy and ultrafast kinetics
  • Single molecule fluorescence
  • Statistical mechanics
  • Computational chemistry and biology

Sushma Shrinivasan

Acting Assistant Teaching Professor

sshrinivasan@ucmerced.edu

Biomedical Sciences and Physics (BSP) 313, Labsite

  • Disciplinary: Data-driven Control of Dynamical Systems, Dynamic mode decomposition, Equation-free modeling
  • Pedagogical: Engineering Education Research, Artificial Intelligence in Education, STEM Workforce Development
Joel Spencer Portrait

Joel Spencer

Associate Professor

joel.spencer@ucmerced.edu

SE2 381, Labsite

Professor Spencer seeks to to develop novel optical imaging and sensing systems for applications in tissue regeneration, transplantation, and cancer. 

Current Research Topics:

  • investigating new ways to image the thymus in live mice with subcellular resolution
  • developing faster oxygen sensing methods for in vivo applications
  • applying whole tissue imaging methods for studying immune reconstitution
  • developing imaging assays for regenerative medicine and other applications
Anand Subramaniam

Anand Subramaniam

Associate Professor and Dept Chair (BioE)

asubramaniam@ucmerced.edu

BSP 335, Labsite

Professor Subramaniam seeks to understand the fundamental physicochemical mechanisms that govern the assembly and function of biomembranes. His lab group combines experimental tools from soft matter physics, chemistry, and molecular biology to tackle cutting-edge challenges in biomembrane engineering and bottom-up synthetic biology.  

 Current Research Topics:

  • developing methods for high throughput fabrication of semi-synthetic cells 
  • developing cost effective vesicle-based therapeutics and diagnostics to improve public health
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