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Core MCB Faculty Profiles: Cell Biology

• Ralph Backhaus, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., California, Davis, 1977. Biology of rubber formation; lipid peroxidation and signaling; plant tissue culture.
  
• David G. Capco, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1980. Cell and developmental biology; Protein kinase C intracellular signals and their role in the cell cycle; mammalian development, cytoskeletal regulation in mammalian cells.
  
• Douglas E. Chandler, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., California, San Francisco, 1977. Cell biology; fertilization in echinoderm and amphibian eggs; calcium signals and exocytosis; freeze-fracture electron microscopy.
  
• Stephen Massia, Associate Professor (Biomedical Engineering); Ph.D., U of Texas,1992. Cell-Biomaterial Interactions, Biomimetic surface modifications for biomaterials, local drug and gene therapy for improved implant performance, tissue engineered cardiovascular and neural implants.
  
• Jeffrey R. Hazel, Professor (Biology); Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1971. Physiology; thermal adaptations of poikilotherms; regulation of membrane function and lipid metabolism.
  
• Alyssa Panitch, Assistant Professor(Bioengineering) Molecular biology to design and synthesize novel materials for use as artificial extra-cellular matrices, newly synthesized proteins are then purified from E.coli and tested for drug delivery, support of mammalian cell adhesion, proliferation and differentiation.
  
• Robert W. Roberson, Associate Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Georgia, 1989. Biology of hyphal growth and spore development in fungi.
  
• Greg D. Smith, Assistant Professor (Mathematics) Ph.D. U of CA, Davis, 1996. Mathematical aspects of neurophysiology and cellular biophysics, neuronal network models of sensory filtering by visual thalamus, mathematical aspects of global and local calcium signaling in neurons and myocytes.
  
• Richard N. Trelease, Professor (Plant Biology); Ph.D., Texas at Austin, 1969. Plant cell and molecular biology; organelle biogenesis; targeting of intracellular protein and membrane components to oilseed peroxisomes.

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