CCBM Faculty, Project Scientists and Staff

Dr. Chin

Wei-Chun Chin
Associate Professor
wchin2@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 2
Polymer physics and engineering of cellular and environmental systems​

 

 

Nora M. Cole
Programs Manager
ncole2@ucmerced.edu
(209) 228-3603

 

 


Mike Colvin
Professor
mcolvin@ucmerced.edu
Chemistry and Chemical biology, Thrust 1
models of biological processes and molecular dynamics of disordered proteins

 

 


Ariel Escobar
Professor
aescobar4@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 1
Calcium in cardiac cellular signaling and techniques to study cardiac cells in vivo

 

 


Anand Gadre
agadre@ucmerced.edu
Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry, Thrust 2
Nanotechnology, medical device development, sensor development, drug delivery
 

 


Sayantani Ghosh
Associate Professor
sghosh@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
experimental condensed matter physics, magnetism, metamaterials, nanoscience and quantum systems
 

 


​Ajay Gopinathan
Co-Director, Professor
agopinathan@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2 Lead, Thrust 1, 2, 3
theoretical biophysics, biopolymers, transport and collective behavior

 

 


Arvind Gopinath

agopinath@ucmerced.edu
Mechanical Engineering, Thrust 3
fluid dynamics, polymers and active soft matter – theory and simulations

 

 


Linda Hirst
Professor
lhirst@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
experimental soft matter physics and biophysics

 

 

Carrie Kouadio
Executive Director
ckouadio@ucmerced.edu
(209) 228-3608

 

 


Bin Liu
Assistant Professor
bliu27@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 3
bacterial motility in complex media and single-cell behavior in biological processes​

 

 

Andy LiWang
Professor
aliwang@ucmerced.edu
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 1
structural biology of circadian clock proteins and nucleic acids, NMR spectroscopy

 

 


Kara McCloskey
Associate Professor
kmccloskey@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 3 Lead
stem cell and tissue engineering for regenerative medicine applications

 

 


​Victor Muñoz
Co-Director, Professor
vmunoz3@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 1 Lead
protein folding, structure prediction and design, protein aggregation

 

 

David Quint
Project Scientist
dquint@ucmerced.edu
 

 

Mourad Sadqi
Project Scientist
msadqi@ucmerced.edu

 

 


Anand Bala Subramaniam
Assistant Professor
asubramaniam@ucmerced.edu
Biological Engineering, Thrust 2
experimental biophysics, cellular reconstitution, experimental synthetic biology

 

 


​Lin Tian
Associate Professor
ltian@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
theoretical quantum optics, quantum information processing and quantum simulation in condensed matter systems

 

 


Jing Xu
Assistant Professor
jing.xu@ucmerced.edu
Physics, Thrust 2
experimental biophysics, quantitative biology single-molecule analysis of molecular motors

 

 


Tao Ye
Assistant Professor
tye2@ucmerced.edu
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 2
​Biomolecular science and engineering, nanotechnology