Faculty

David Ackerly

Dean of Rausser College of Natural Resources and Professor

Integrative Biology

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

Current research in the Ackerly lab is focused on studies of climate change impacts on California biodiversity, including distribution modeling, long-term vegetation dynamics and focal studies of selected plant species. Our primary field site is the Pepperwood Preserve, Santa Rosa, CA. Graduate students and post-docs are working on evolution of physiological traits, demography of alpine plants, and species distributions on fine-scale spatial gradients. For more information, see ackerlylab.org....

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Hillel Adesnik

Associate Professor (Affiliated) of Cell Biology, Development and Physiology

Neuroscience

Molecular and Cell Biology

Division: Neuroscience

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Julien Ayroles

Acting Associate Professor

Integrative Biology

Julien has taken a diverse path throughout his career. As an undergraduate at the University Paul Sabatier in Toulouse (France) and as a Masters student at UI Urbana-Champaign, his training was primarily in ecology and evolutionary biology. During this time, he developed a keen interest in conservation biology that later led him to genetics. He completed his Ph.D. at North Carolina State University under the mentorship of Drs Eric Stone and Trudy Mackay. During his doctorate, he developed various approaches that centered on using a systems genetics approach to dissect the...

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Doris Bachtrog

Professor

Integrative Biology

Division: Center for Computational Biology

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Gregory Barton

Department Co-Chair and Professor

Molecular & Cell Biology

Division: Immunology and Molecular Medicine

For full research description, please visit Greg's Faculty Profile(link is external).

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Helen Bateup

Associate Professor of Molecular Therapeutics

Molecular and Cell Biology

Neuroscience

Divisions: Neuroscience, Molecular Therapeutics

Bateup Lab – Molecular mechanisms of synapse and circuit plasticity

During circuit development and throughout life, neurons express different forms of plasticity that allow them to learn new information and respond to changes in the environment. At the same time they must maintain balanced activity to preserve information flow in the network. To do this neurons integrate fast-acting, local information from synaptic inputs with more long-term, global information about...