Needhi Bhalla

• Department: MCD Biology
• Sponsor: NIH/NIGMS
• Title: Cell cycle checkpoint control in C. elegans

Emily Brodsky

• Department: Earth & Planetary Sciences
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Title: AccelNet-Implementation: SZNet – A Coordinated Global Effort to Understand Subduction Geohazards

Susan Carpenter

• Department: MCD Biology
• Sponsor: NIH/NIAID
• Title: Determining the conserved molecular mechanisms contributing to inflammation during Sepsis

Viktor Ginzburg

• Department: Mathematics
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Title: Collaborative Proposal: Floer Theory and Topological Entropy

Kristy Kroeker

• Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Sponsor: David and Lucile Packard Foundation
• Title: Improving retention of underrepresented undergraduates in marine biology using authentic field experience

Raphael Kudela

• Department: Ocean Sciences
• Sponsor: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – NOAA
• Title: Emerging Algal Toxins in the California Current System: Responding to Known Threats, Preparing for the Future

Shaun McKinnie

• Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Sponsor: NIH/NIGMS
• Title: Identification, characterization, and application of bacterial site-specific vanadium-dependent haloperoxidase enzymes

Glenn Millhauser

• Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Sponsor: NIH/NIGMS
• Title: Discovering How Cu(II)/Zn(II) Uptake by the Prion Protein Controls Structure, Function and Neurotoxicity

Harry Noller

• Department: MCD Biology
• Sponsor: NIH/NIGMS
• Title: Ribosome Structure and Function

Jevgenij Raskatov

• Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Sponsor: NIH/NIA
• Title: Using Chirality to Understand and Control Amyloid Beta Neuronal Uptake and Toxicity

Ana Ravelo

• Department: Ocean Sciences
• Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Title: Collaborative Research: Top-down vs. bottom-up: Deciphering the Subantarctic South Pacific Ocean’s Role in Pleistocene Climate Evolution with IODP Expedition 383 Sediments

Seth Rubin

• Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Sponsor: (1) Stanford University, (2) NIH/NIGMS
• Title: (1) Determining and targeting mechanisms controlling cancer cell division, (2) The MARC Program at UCSC

Laura Sanchez

• Department: Chemistry & Biochemistry
• Sponsor: University of Illinois at Chicago
• Title: Imaging mass spectrometry methodologies for studying the metabolites of cancer metastasis

Shaheen Sikandar

• Department: MCD Biology
• Sponsor: NIH/NCI
• Title: Molecular mechanisms regulating LMO2+ metastasis initiating cells

Fitnat Yildiz

• Department: Microbiology & Environ. Tox.
• Sponsor: NIH/NIAID
• Title: Vibrio cholerae biofilms: structure, function, regulation and role in infection

Yi Zuo

• Department: MCD Biology
• Sponsor: NIH/NIMH
• Title: Fronto-insular network in cognitive-affective interactions during decision-making