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Research Faculty Mentors for Summer 2025

Shaun McKinnie

The McKinnie lab studies biologically significant natural products, how their unique chemical structures impart their respective activities, and how they are chemically and biochemically assembled.

Ted Holman

Utilizing diverse techniques such as enzymology, molecular biology, site-directed mutagenesis, and mass spectroscopy, we discover the intricate role of LOX in critical biological processes and its link to diseases, including blood coagulation, heart disease, and diabetes.

Laura Sanchez

The Sanchez lab’s interest is to elucidate the chemistry by which cells and microbes communicate with one another or with their surroundings to coordinate biological functions in complex background.

Valerie Cortez

The Cortez Lab studies mucosal microbiology and immunology, with research focused on astroviruses, non-enveloped enteric RNA viruses that infect birds and mammals.

Jordan Ward

We focus on nematode molting, a remarkable process where the animal must essentially build a new epidermis underneath the old skin and then rapidly shed the old skin, all in a period of four hours.

Tim Johnstone

We investigate the fundamental properties of biologically relevant inorganic compounds and apply them to the solution of problems related to human health.

Seth Rubin

The Rubin Research Group at UC Santa Cruz studies mechanisms controlling cell division.

Jacqueline Kimmey

We concentrate on how the circadian clock affects immune dynamics in the context of Streptococcus pneumoniae, but also how study how diverse bacteria affect with the host circadian rhythms.

Needhi Bhalla

We combine genetic and biochemical approaches with high-resolution microscopy and cytological techniques in the nematode worm C. elegans to better understand how chromosomes are partitioned correctly during both sexual reproduction (meiosis) and development (mitosis).

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