*Asterisk indicates faculty who have taken mentor training and/or implicit bias training.
MBIDP CHAIR AND HOME AREA DIRECTORS
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Coller.jpeg)
Hilary Coller*
MBIDP Interim Chair
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/08/DSC_0056-Feng-Guo_small509.jpg)
Feng Guo*
Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology (BBSB)
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2024/04/Hallem-Elissa-10r4x.jpg)
Elissa Hallem*
Immunity, Microbes, and Molecular Pathogenesis (IMMP)
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/asagasti.jpg)
Alvaro Sagasti*
Cell and Developmental Biology (CDB)
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/Vallim.jpg)
Thomas Vallim*
Gene Regulation, Epigenomics and Transcriptomics (GREAT)
FACULTY ADVISORS
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Abramson.jpg)
Jeffrey Abramson
BBSB
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/03/afshar-yalda-1629497763.jpeg)
Yalda Afshar*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/10/1661984370446.jpeg)
George Agak
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2019/10/OrkunAkin_photo-1.jpg)
Orkun Akin*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/10/photo-1.jpg)
Keriann Backus*
BBSB, IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/08/Banerjee2.jpg)
Utpal Banerjee
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Bensinger.jpg)
Steven Bensinger*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2021/07/Bhaduri.png)
Aparna Bhaduri*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/dblack.jpg)
Douglas Black*
BBSB, CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/09/Bouchard_Louis.jpeg)
Louis Bouchard
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/04/Mehdi-Bouhaddou.jpg)
Mehdi Bouhaddou*
CDB, GeneReg, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/11/boutros.jpg)
Paul Boutros*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2018/10/download.jpg)
Peter Bradley*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2019/03/Braybrook.jpg)
Siobhan Braybrook*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/05/Samantha-Butler.jpg)
Samantha Butler*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/11/manish_face.jpg)
Manish Butte
BBSB, IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/09/Hua-Linda-Cai-400x400-1.jpeg)
Linda Hua Cai
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Chen-jau-nian.jpg)
Jau-Nian Chen*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/05/yvonne-chen.jpg)
Yvonne Chen*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2022/12/cheng-quen-1194091298.jpeg)
Quen Cheng*
IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Christofk-Heather.jpg)
Heather Christofk*
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/08/Rob-01-1.jpg)
Robert Clubb*
BBSB, IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Cohn-Dan.jpg)
Daniel Cohn*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/10/Anthony-Photo-scaled-1.jpeg)
Anthony Covarrubias*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Crooks-Gay.png)
Gay Crooks*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/08/Rachelle-Crosbie-2020.jpg)
Rachelle Crosbie*
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/02/Daboussi-2-scaled-2.jpeg)
Lydia Daboussi*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Dawson-David.jpg)
David Dawson*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/11/Luis2.jpg)
Luis De La Torre-Ubieta*
GeneReg
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2021/06/De-Robertis_9296_400x400.jpg)
Edward De Robertis
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Deb.jpg)
Arjun Deb
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2024/05/deng-sophie-1194775890.jpeg)
Sophie Deng
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/StevenDubinett.jpg)
Steven Dubinett*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/photo.jpg)
David Eisenberg*
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/ernst_jason.png)
Jason Ernst*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Frand-Ali.jpg)
Alison Frand
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/05/Fregoso-Headshot.jpg)
Oliver Fregoso*
GeneReg, IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Gelbart.jpeg)
William Gelbart*
BBSB
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Gomperts.jpg)
Brigitte Gomperts
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/Tamir-Gonen.jpg)
Tamir Gonen*
BBSB
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Graeber.jpg)
Thomas Graeber*
CDB
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/08/DSC_0056-Feng-Guo_small509.jpg)
Feng Guo*
BBSB, GeneReg, IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Guo-Ming.jpg)
Ming Guo*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2024/04/Hallem-Elissa-10r4x.jpg)
Elissa Hallem*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/volker.jpg)
Volker Hartenstein
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/02/ASM-photo.jpg)
Kent Hill*
BBSB, CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/09/Hoffman1.jpg)
Alexander Hoffmann*
CDB, GeneReg, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2018/11/houk-portrait-2018.jpeg)
Kendall Houk*
BBSB
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/11/photo.jpg)
Elaine Hsiao*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/11/jimmy-hu.png)
Jimmy Hu*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/jhuang.jpg)
Jing Huang*
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/sjacobsen.jpg)
Steven Jacobsen
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/jiang-lin.jpg)
Lin Jiang*
BBSB
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/tjohnson2.jpg)
Tracy Johnson*
BBSB, CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/10/Mireille-Kamariza-1.jpg)
Mireille Kamariza*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/ckoehler.jpg)
Carla Koehler*
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/dkohn.jpg)
Donald Kohn
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/hkornblum2.jpg)
Harley Kornblum*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Krakow.jpg)
Deborah Krakow
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/11/Kruglyak2.jpg)
Leonid Kruglyak*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/10/Caroline-Kuo.jpg)
Caroline Kuo
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/11/Kurdistani2.jpg)
Siavash Kurdistani*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/IMG_9080.jpg)
Melody Li*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/Lipshutz-2.jpg)
Gerald Lipshutz*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/08/photo.jpg)
Jeffrey Long*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/09/download.jpg)
Bill Lowry*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2021/12/JuliaMack.jpg)
Julia Mack
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Martinez-1.jpg)
Julian Martinez-Agosto*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/09/Memarzadeh-1.jpg)
Sanaz Memarzadeh
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/cmiceli.jpg)
M. Carrie Miceli
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/hmikkola.jpg)
Hanna Mikkola*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Nakano.jpg)
Atsushi (Austin) Nakano
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/bnovitch.jpg)
Bennett Novitch*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/03/Theodore-Nowicki.png)
Theodore Nowicki
IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/IMG_1301-1-1.jpg)
Tim O’Sullivan*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Pajonk.jpg)
Frank Pajonk
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Payne.jpg)
Gregory Payne
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/MatteoPellegrini.jpg)
Matteo Pellegrini*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2022/11/photo-7.jpeg)
Yirong Peng*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/09/lena.jpeg)
Lena Pernas*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/09/Plath1.jpg)
Kathrin Plath*
BBSB, CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Pyle.jpg)
April Pyle*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/08/Quinlan_Margot_2016_HighRez2.jpg)
Margot Quinlan*
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/ElaineReed.jpg)
Elaine Reed*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/rowat-amy.jpg)
Amy Rowat
BBSB, CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/asagasti.jpg)
Alvaro Sagasti*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/Tamer-Sallam.jpg)
Tamer Sallam*
GeneReg
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/03/image-4.png)
Philip Scumpia*
CDB, GeneReg, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/03/Unknown.jpeg)
Karen Sears*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2019/10/Unknown.jpeg)
David Shackelford
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/10/photo.jpeg)
Pavak Shah*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/09/Daria-Siekhaus3.jpeg)
Daria Siekhaus
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/ssmale2.jpg)
Stephen Smale*
GeneReg, IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/mspencer.jpg)
Melissa Spencer*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/03/PhotoHandler-6.jpeg)
Tanya Stoyanova*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2023/10/Liz_headshot-1.png)
Elizabeth Tarling*
CDB, GeneReg, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/M-Teitell-picture2.jpg)
Michael Teitell*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2018/07/HTT.jpeg)
Hung Ton-That*
IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/ptontonoz.jpg)
Peter Tontonoz*
GeneReg
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Torres.jpg)
Jorge Torres*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/Vallim.jpg)
Thomas Vallim*
GeneReg, IMMP
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Alexander_Van_der_Bliek.jpg)
Alexander van der Bliek
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/12/UUHC_170829_5083-2.jpg)
Claudio Villanueva*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/TomVondriska.jpg)
Thomas Vondriska*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Walker-David.jpg)
David Walker
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2020/11/Weidhaas2.png)
Joanne Weidhaas*
GeneReg
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Williams.jpg)
David Williams*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/jWohlschlegel.jpg)
James Wohlschlegel
BBSB, CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/xiaograce.jpg)
Xinshu Grace Xiao*
GeneReg
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/zLiliYang-Portrait1.jpg)
Lili Yang*
CDB, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2021/02/xia-yang.jpg)
Xia Yang*
GeneReg
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/11/XYang_2015MBI.jpg)
Xian-Jie Yang
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Todd-O.-Yeates.jpg)
Todd Yeates*
BBSB
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/08/Zamudio.jpg)
Jesse Zamudio*
CDB, GeneReg, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2016/08/Ye-Zhang.jpg)
Ye Zhang*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2017/07/Jie-Zheng-PhD-18_a.jpg)
Jie Zheng*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/hzhou.jpg)
Hong Zhou*
BBSB, CDB, GeneReg, IMMP, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2021/10/Zhenqi-Zhou.jpg)
Zhenqi Zhou*
CDB, MBI
![](https://sites.lifesci.ucla.edu/mbi-home/wp-content/uploads/sites/191/2015/10/Lawrence-Zipursky.jpg)
S. Larry Zipursky
CDB, MBI