Faculty

The Genetics Graduate Group faculty members have a wide-range of research interests. These interests have been broken down into five specialties.

An alphabetical list of all faculty members affiliated with the Genetics Graduate Group is on this Web page, or you may view a list of faculty by specialization and research interests through the drop-down menu.

Chair of Genetics: David Neale

Faculty in Focus Group:



Name Department Email
Steffen Abel Plant Science sabel@ucdavis.edu
Danika Bannasch Vet Med - Population Health and Reproduction dlbannasch@ucdavis.edu
Diane Maria Beckles Plant Science dmbeckles@ucdavis.edu
David Begun Evolution and Ecology djbegun@ucdavis.edu
Craig Benham Biomedical Engineering (Grad) cjbenham@ucdavis.edu
Alan B. Bennett Plant Science abbennett@ucdavis.edu
Linda Bisson Viticulture & Enology lfbisson@ucdavis.edu
John L. Bowman Plant Biology jlbowman@ucdavis.edu
Simeon Boyd Pediatrics - Medicine simeon.boyd@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Siobhan Brady Plant Biology sbrady@ucdavis.edu
Anne B. Britt Plant Biology abbritt@ucdavis.edu
Sean M. Burgess Molecular & Cellular Biology smburgess@ucdavis.edu
Kenneth C. Burtis Molecular & Cellular Biology kcburtis@ucdavis.edu
Judy Callis Molecular & Cellular Biology jcallis@ucdavis.edu
Simon Chan Plant Biology srchan@ucdavis.edu
Frederic Chedin Molecular & Cellular Biology flchedin@ucdavis.edu
Hongwu Chen Biological Chemistry -Medicine hwzchen@ucdavis.edu
Roger T. Chetelat Plant Science trchetelat@ucdavis.edu
Gitta Coaker glcoaker@ucdavis.edu
Luca Comai UC Davis Genome Center lcomai@ucdavis.edu
Douglas Cook drcook@ucdavis.edu
Gino Cortopassi VM Molecular Biosciences gcortopassi@ucdavis.edu
Abhaya M. Dandekar Plant Science amdandekar@ucdavis.edu
Mary E. Delany medelany@ucdavis.edu
Bruce Draper Molecular & Cellular Biology bwdraper@ucdavis.edu
Jorge Dubcovsky Plant Science jdubcovsky@ucdavis.edu
Jan Dvorak Plant Science jdvorak@ucdavis.edu
JoAnne Engebrecht Molecular & Cellular Biology jengebrecht@ucdavis.edu
Holly B. Ernest Vet Med - Population Health and Reproduction hbernest@ucdavis.edu
Thomas R. Famula trfamula@ucdavis.edu
Peggy J Farnham Pharmacology - Medicine
Charles S. Gasser Molecular & Cellular Biology csgasser@ucdavis.edu
Paul Gepts Plant Science plgepts@ucdavis.edu
Robert L. Gilbertson rlgilbertson@ucdavis.edu
David Gilchrist dggilchrist@ucdavis.edu
Thomas Gradziel Plant Science tmgradziel@ucdavis.edu
Nobuko Hagiwara Cardiovascular Physio(IntMed) nhagiwara@ucdavis.edu
John J. Harada Plant Biology jjharada@ucdavis.edu
Jim Harding Plant Science jaharding@ucdavis.edu
Stacey Harmer Plant Biology slharmer@ucdavis.edu
Wolf-Dietrich Heyer Microbiology wdheyer@ucdavis.edu
Liping Huang lhuang@ucdavis.edu
Neil Hunter Microbiology nhunter@ucdavis.edu
Marie Jasieniuk Plant Science mjasien@ucdavis.edu
Clarence Kado cikado@ucdavis.edu
Sree Kanthaswamy California National Primate Research Center skanthaswamy@ucdavis.edu
Kenneth Kaplan Molecular & Cellular Biology kbkaplan@ucdavis.edu
Dan Kliebenstein Plant Science
Paul Knoepfler Cell Biology & Human Anatomy knoepfler@ucdavis.edu
Artyom Kopp Evolution and Ecology akopp@ucdavis.edu
Ian F Korf Molecular & Cellular Biology ifkorf@ucdavis.edu
Stephen Kowalczykowski Microbiology sckowalczykowski@ucdavis.edu
Dietmar Kueltz dkueltz@ucdavis.edu
Hsing-Jien Kung Biological Chemistry -Medicine hkung@ucdavis.edu
Kit Lam Hematology-Oncology (Int Med) kit.lam@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Charles H. Langley Evolution and Ecology chlangley@ucdavis.edu
Janine M. LaSalle Microbiology - Medicine jmlasalle@ucdavis.edu
F. Thomas Ledig Plant Science tledig@ucdavis.edu
Ronald Li Cell Biology & Human Anatomy ronaldli@ucdavis.edu
Su-Ju Lin Microbiology slin@ucdavis.edu
William John Lucas Plant Biology wjlucas@ucdavis.edu
Leslie Ann Lyons Vet Med - Population Health and Reproduction lalyons@ucdavis.edu
Julin N Maloof Plant Biology jnmaloof@ucdavis.edu
Bernie May bpmay@ucdavis.edu
Juan F. Medrano jfmedrano@ucdavis.edu
Frederick Meyers Internal Medicine - Medicine fjmeyers@ucdavis.edu
Richard W Michelmore UC Davis Genome Center rwmichelmore@ucdavis.edu
Maria Mudryj Microbiology - Medicine mmudryj@ucdavis.edu
James D. Murray jdmurray@ucdavis.edu
Jeanette E. Natzle Molecular & Cellular Biology jenatzle@ucdavis.edu
David Neale Plant Science dbneale@ucdavis.edu
Anita M. Oberbauer amoberbauer@ucdavis.edu
Dan Parfitt Plant Science deparfitt@ucdavis.edu
Martin L. Privalsky Microbiology mlprivalsky@ucdavis.edu
Carlos Quiros Plant Science cfquiros@ucdavis.edu
Kathryn Radke klradke@ucdavis.edu
Pamela Christine Ronald pcronald@ucdavis.edu
Alan Rose Molecular & Cellular Biology abrose@ucdavis.edu
Lesilee S. Rose Molecular & Cellular Biology lsrose@ucdavis.edu
Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra Plant Science rossibarra@ucdavis.edu
John R. Roth Microbiology jrroth@ucdavis.edu
Earl Sawai Pathology - Veterinary Med etsawai@ucdavis.edu
David Jay Segal Pharmacology - Medicine djsegal@ucdavis.edu
Michael Seldin Biological Chemistry -Medicine mfseldin@ucdavis.edu
Barbara L. Shacklett Microbiology - Medicine blshacklett@ucdavis.edu
Frank R Sharp Neurology - Medicine frsharp@ucdavis.edu; frank.sharp@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Douglas Shaw Plant Science dashaw@ucdavis.edu
Neelima R. Sinha Plant Biology nrsinha@ucdavis.edu
Dina St. Clair Plant Science dastclair@ucdavis.edu
Daniel A Starr Molecular & Cellular Biology dastarr@ucdavis.edu
Venkatesan Sundaresan Plant Science sundar@ucdavis.edu
Michael Syvanen Microbiology - Medicine msyvanen@ucdavis.edu
Thomas H. Tai Plant Science thtai@ucdavis.edu
Larry Teuber Plant Science lrteuber@ucdavis.edu
Alison Van Eenennaam alvaneenennaam@ucdavis.edu
M. Andrew Walker Viticulture & Enology awalker@ucdavis.edu
Craig Warden Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior chwarden@ucdavis.edu
Valerie Williamson vmwilliamson@ucdavis.edu
Reen Wu Internal Medicine - Medicine rwu@ucdavis.edu
Lifeng Xu Microbiology lfxu@ucdavis.edu
John I. Yoder Plant Science jiyoder@ucdavis.edu
Chengji Zhou Cell Biology & Human Anatomy cjzhou (AT) ucdavis.edu

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