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Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

All courses, faculty listings, and curricular and degree requirements described herein are subject to change or deletion without notice.

Participating Faculty

School of Engineering:

Department of Bioengineering

Xiaohua Huang, Associate Professor

Kevin King, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Department of Medicine

Prashant Mali, Associate Professor

Andrew McCulloch, Professor

Christian Metallo, Associate Professor

Bernhard Palsson, Professor

Benjamin Smarr, Assistant Professor

Shankar Subramaniam, Professor

Yingxiao Wang, Professor

Kun Zhang, Professor

Sheng Zhong, Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Vineet Bafna, Professor

Nuno Bandeira, Professor, Computer Science and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Melissa Gymrek, Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Medicine

Niema Moshiri, Assistant Teaching Professor

Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Chair, Professor

Qi (Rose) Yu, Assistant Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Siavash Mirarab, Associate Professor

Yatish Turakhia, Assistant Professor

Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Tiffany Amariuta, Assistant Professor

School of Biological Sciences:

Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Steven Briggs, Professor

Amy Kiger, Associate Professor

Julian Schroeder, Professor

Department of Molecular Biology

Nan Hao, Associate Professor

Jeff Hasty, Professor, Molecular Biology and Department of Bioengineering

Gurol Suel, Professor

Department of Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution

Scott Rifkin, Associate Professor

La Jolla Institute for Immunology

Ferhat Ay, Associate Professor and UC San Diego Assistant Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics

Anjana Rao, Professor and UC San Diego Adjunct Professor, Pharmacology

Pandurangan Vijayanand, Professor and UC San Diego Associate Adjunct Professor, Medicine

Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Wolfgang Busch, Professor and UC San Diego Associate Adjunct Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Joseph Ecker, Professor and UC San Diego Adjunct Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Ronald M. Evans, Professor and UC San Diego Adjunct Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Fred Gage, President and Professor and UC San Diego Adjunct Professor, Neurobiology

Susan Kaech, Professor and UC San Diego Adjunct Professor, Molecular Biology

Pallav Kosuri, Assistant Professor and UC San Diego Assistant Adjunct Professor, Molecular Biology

Julie Law, Associate Professor and UC San Diego Assistant Adjunct Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology

Graham McVicker, Assistant Professor and UC San Diego Assistant Adjunct Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Andrew Allen, Professor

Simone Baumann-Pickering, Associate Professor

Terry Gaasterland, Professor, Program Director

School of Physical Sciences:

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Andrew McCammon, Professor

Susan Taylor, Professor

Wei Wang, Professor

Department of Mathematics

Michael Holst, Professor

Glenn Tesler, Professor

Ruth Williams, Professor

Ronghui Xu, Professor, Mathematics, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Department of Physics

Terence Hwa, Professor

Suckjoon Jun, Professor

School of Social Sciences:

Department of Cognitive Science

Eran Mukamel, Assistant Professor

School of Medicine:

Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Ludmil Alexandrov, Associate Professor

Bogdan Bintu, Assistant Professor

Christopher Glass, Professor

Wendy Huang, Assistant Professor

Bing Ren, Professor

Gene Yeo, Professor and Program Associate Director

Huilin Zhou, Professor

Department of Medicine

Christopher Benner, Assistant Professor

Hannah Carter, Associate Professor

Lukas Chavez Kuss, Assistant Adjunct Professor

Neil Chi, Professor

Kathleen Curtius, Assistant Professor

Matteo D’Antonio, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Division of Biomedical Informatics

Robert El-Kareh, Associate Clinical Professor

Emma Farley, Assistant Professor

Rodney Gabriel, Assistant Clinical Professor

Alon Goren, Assistant Professor

Sven Heinz, Assistant Professor

Michael Hogarth, Clinical Professor

Trey Ideker, Professor and Program Associate Director

Richard Kolodner, Professor

Jejo Koola, Assistant Clinical Professor

Tsung-Ting Kuo, Assistant Professor

Amit Majithia, Assistant Professor

Jill Mesirov, Professor, Medicine

Shamim Nemati, Assistant Professor, Medicine and Division of Biomedical Informatics

Lucila Ohno-Machado, Professor

Michael Rosenfeld, Professor

Amy Sitapati, Professor, Medicine and Interim Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics

Pablo Tamayo, Professor

Joel Wertheim, Associate Professor

Department of Neurosciences

Joseph Gleeson, Professor

Department of Reproductive Medicine

Heidi Cook-Andersen, Assistant Professor, Reproductive Medicine and Biological Sciences

Kathleen Fisch, Assistant Professor

Louise Laurent, Professor

Department of Surgery

Joseph Califano, Physician Chief

Theresa Guo, Assistant Professor

Department of Pathology

Gen-Sheng Feng, Professor, Pathology and Molecular Biology

Department of Pediatrics

Vikas Bansal, Associate Professor

Alejandro Chavez, Associate Professor

Kelly Frazer, Professor

Kyle Gaulton, Assistant Professor

Olivier Harismendy, Associate Professor

Robin Knight, Professor

Nathan Lewis, Associate Professor

Tariq Rana, Distinguished Professor

Debashis Sahoo, Associate Professor

Elizabeth Winzeler, Professor

Karsten Zengler, Adjunct Professor

Department of Psychiatry

Christine Cheng, Associate Professor in Residence

Lilia Iakoucheva, Associate Professor

Abraham Palmer, Professor

Nicholas Schork, Adjunct Professor

Jonathan Sebat, Professor

Department of Pharmacology

Mohit Jain, Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Medicine

Johannes Schoeneberg, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology, Chemistry and Biochemistry

Department of Radiology

Chi-Hua Chen, Associate Adjunct Professor, Radiology

Albert Hsiao, Associate Professor in Residence, Radiology

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Ruben Abagyan, Professor

Pieter Dorrestein, Professor

Michael Gilson, Professor

Vivian Hook, Professor

Palmer Taylor, Professor