Our Faculty

BIOENGINEERING

CORE FACULTY

wei-chun chin

Polymer physics and engineering of cellular and environmental systems

Email: wchin2@ucmerced.edu

eva de alba

Protein structure/dynamics and mechanistic studies. Protein engineering for biotechnological applications.

Email: edealbabastarrechea@ucmerced.edu

ariel escobar

Calcium in cardiac cellular signaling and techniques to study cardiac cells in vivo

Email: aescobar4@ucmerced.edu

arvind gopinath

Mechanobiology, structural biology and biochemical aspects of single-cell and collective motility and phototaxis in microorganisms

Email: agopinath@ucmerced.edu

changqing li

Biomedical imaging methods for cancer and drug delivery

Email: cli32@ucmerced.edu

victor munoz

Protein biophysics, engineering and design, protein folding, biosensors, design of allosteric macromolecular assemblies, single-molecule spectroscopy

Email: vmunoz3@ucmerced.edu

chih-wen ni

Mechanical and genetic aspects of cardiovascular diseases, vascular development, remodeling and angiogenesis

Email: cni3@ucmerced.edu

joel spencer

Biomedical optics, intravital imaging and sensing, tissue regeneration, transplantation, hematopoietic stem cells

Email: joel.spencer@ucmerced.edu

anand subramaniam

Colloidal, polymeric and biologically active interfaces for design of biomimetic materials and semi-synthetic cells

Email: asubramaniam@ucmerced.edu

AFFILIATED FACULTY

mike colvin

Molecular and cell biophysics, biological modeling

Email: mcolvin@ucmerced.edu

aaron hernday

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology, biological modeling

Email: ahernday@ucmerced.edu

Katrina hoyer

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology

Email: khoyer2@ucmerced.edu

kirk jensen

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology

Email: kjensen5@ucmerced.edu

patricia liwang

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology, biological imaging and spectroscopy

Email: pliwang@ucmerced.edu

andy liwang

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology, biological imaging and spectroscopy

Email: aliwang@ucmerced.edu

nestor oviedo

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology

Email: noviedo2@ucmerced.edu

Stephanie Woo

Endoderm development and epithelial morphogenesis in zebrafish

Email: swoo6@ucmerced.edu

tao ye

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology, biological imaging and spectroscopy

Email: tye2@ucmerced.edu

maria elena zoghbi

Molecular and cell biophysics, synthetic molecular and cell biology, biological imaging and spectroscopy

Email: mzoghbi@ucmerced.edu

Contact

changqing li

Bioengineering Graduate Program Chair

Email: cli32@ucmerced.edu

Website: bioe.ucmerced.edu

GRADUATE STUDIES | BIOENGINEERING