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