People

Administrative Leads

CCBM Co-Director, Professor of Bioengineering Victor Muñoz

Victor Muñoz

CCBM Co-Director & PI, Professor of Bioengineering, Thrust 1

vmunoz3@ucmerced.edu

Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building 261

CCBM Co-Director, Professor of Physics Ajay Gopinathan

Ajay Gopinathan

CCBM Co-Director & Co-PI, Graduate Lead, & Professor of Physics, Thrust 2, 3

agopinathan@ucmerced.edu

Arts & Computational Sciences 252

Sayantani Ghosh

Co-PI & Professor of Physics, Thrust 2

sghosh@ucmerced.edu

Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building

Thrust Leads

Assistant Professor of Physics Kinjal Dasbiswas

Kinjal Dasbiswas

Assistant Professor of Physics, Thrust 2, 3 / Thrust 2 Lead

kdasbiswas@ucmerced.edu

COB 1, Room 313

Eva de Alba

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Thrust 1 Lead

edealbabastarrechea@ucmerced.edu

Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building

Assistant Professor of Molecular Cell Biology Stephanie Woo

Stephanie Woo

Assistant Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Thrust 3 / Thrust 3 Lead

swoo6@ucmerced.edu

SE1 248

Undergraduate Education Lead

Roberto C. Andresen Eguiluz

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Thrust 1&3, Undergraduate Lead

randreseneguiluz@ucmerced.edu

Thrust 1

Mike Colvin

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 1

mcolvin@ucmerced.edu

COB, Room 361

Roberto C. Andresen Eguiluz

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Thrust 1&3, Undergraduate Lead

randreseneguiluz@ucmerced.edu

Aaron Hernday

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Thrust 1

ahernday@ucmerced.edu

SE1, Room 314

Patricia LiWang

Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Thrust 1

pliwang@ucmerced.edu

Castle, Room 95

Andy LiWang

Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 1

aliwang@ucmerced.edu

Castle, Building 1200, Room 36

Andrea Merg

Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Thrust 1

amerg@ucmerced.edu

BSP, Room 167

Tomas Rube

Tomas Rube

Assistant Project Scientist, Thrust 1

trube@ucmerced.edu

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Anand Bala Subramaniam

Anand Bala Subramaniam

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering, Thrust 1

asubramaniam@ucmerced.edu

SE2, Room 291

Shahar Sukenik

Faculty Affiliate (Syracuse University)

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Michael Thompson

Michael C. Thompson

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Thrust 1

mthompson30@ucmerced.edu

Castle, Bldg 1200, Room 96

Thrust 2

Ryan Baxter

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 2

rbaxter@ucmerced.edu

SE2 370

Daniel Beller

Daniel Beller

Faculty Affiliate, Johns Hopkins University

Linda Hirst

Professor of Physics

lhirst@ucmerced.edu

Biomedical Sciences and Physics Building

Kevin Mitchell

Professor of Physics, Thrust 2

kmitchell@ucmerced.edu

COB 343

Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics Maxime Theillard

Maxime Theillard

Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics, Thrust 2

mtheillard@ucmerced.edu

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Tao Ye

Tao Ye

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Thrust 2

tye2@ucmerced.edu

SE1 292

Thrust 3

Daniel Beller

Daniel Beller

Faculty Affiliate, Johns Hopkins University

Roberto C. Andresen Eguiluz

Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Thrust 1&3, Undergraduate Lead

randreseneguiluz@ucmerced.edu

Xuecai Ge

Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Thrust 3

xge2@ucmerced.edu

SE1, Room 260

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Arvind Gopinath

Arvind Gopinath

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Thrust 3

agopinath@ucmerced.edu

SE2 384

Assistant Professor of Physics Bin Liu

Bin Liu

Associate Professor of Physics, Thrust 3

bliu27@ucmerced.edu

BSP 111

Kara McCloskey

Professor of Materials Science Engineering

kmccloskey@ucmerced.edu

SE1 344

Professor, Applied Math Suzanne Sindi

Suzanne Sindi

Professor, Applied Math, Thrust 3

ssindi@ucmerced.edu

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering Joel Spencer

Joel Spencer

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Thrust 3

joel.spencer@ucmerced.edu

SE2 381

Associate Professor Molecular and Cell Biology Fred W. Wolf

Fred W. Wolf

Associate Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, Thrust 3

fwolf@ucmerced.edu

SE1 330

Staff / Contributors

Project Scientist David Gravano

David Gravano

Project Scientist, Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry (to lead BioNano Technology summer module)

dgravano@ucmerced.edu

Petia Gueorguieva

CCBM Undergraduate Coordinator

Carrie Kouadio

Executive Director

(209) 228-4230
ckouadio@ucmerced.edu

BSP 247

David Quint

2016-20 Project Scientist

dquint@ucmerced.edu

Mourad Sadqi

Project Scientist

msadqi@ucmerced.edu

External Evaluation

Ayesha Boyce

Ayesha Boyce

External Evaluator