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The Interfaces Training Program brings together 37 outstanding faculty members with academic appointments in over a dozen departments in the Schools of Medicine and Engineering and the Divisions of Biological Sciences and Physical Sciences. They include appointed representatives from all participating degree programs plus the Radiology Department, core leaders and co-instructors for the six new graduate laboratory courses, three investigators of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and two faculty with appointments at the neighboring Salk and Burnham Institutes. These faculty members are responsible for the operation of the program, for teaching the new curriculum and for serving as co-mentors to the selected trainees.


Name Email Title  Role

Andrew McCulloch amcculloch@ucsd.edu Program Director Bioengineering
Labs 1,3,5,6 

Mark Ellisman mhellisman@ucsd.edu Co-Program Director Neurosciences
Labs 1,2,3,4
 

Terrence Sejnowski terry@salk.edu Co-Program Director Biological Sciences
Labs 1,3
 

Susan Taylor staylor@ucsd.edu Co-Program Director Chemistry & Biochemistry
Labs 3,6
 

Gaurav Arya garya@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Nanoengineering & Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Labs 1,4 

Vineet Bafna vbafna@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Bioinformatics
Systems Biology Program
Lab 1
 

Timothy Baker tsb@chem.ucsd.edu Program Faculty Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lab 3 

Michael Berns mberns@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Bioengineering
Labs 3,4,6 

Richard Buxton rbuxton@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Radiology
Labs 2,3,6
 

Gert Cauwenberghs gcauwenberghs@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Biological Sciences
Labs 1,2,3,4 

Karen Christman kchristman@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Bioengineering
Labs 3,4,5,6
 

Anders Dale amdale@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Radiology
Lab 2 

Pieter Dorrestein pdorrestein@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lab 3
 

Sylvia Evans syevans@ucsd.edu Program Faculty School of Pharmacy
Pharmacological Sciences
Labs 3,5,6
 

Lawrence Frank lfrank@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Radiology
Labs 2,3,6 

Anirvan Ghosh aghosh@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Neurosciences
Labs 2,3 

Tracy Handel thandel@ucsd.edu Program Faculty School of Pharmacy
Pharmacological Sciences
Lab 3
 

Dorit Hanein dorit@burnham.org Program Faculty Biomedical Sciences
Labs 1,3 

Michael Holst mholst@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Mathematics
Lab 1
 

David Kleinfeld dkleinfeld@ucsd.edu Core Leader Physics
Labs 2,3,4
 

Elizabeth Komives ekomives@ucsd.edu Core Leader Chemistry & Biochemistry
Labs 1,3
 

William Kristan wkristan@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Biological Sciences
Labs 2,5
 

Thomas Liu ttliu@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Radiology
Bioengineering
Labs 2,3 

Alison Marsden amarsden@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
Labs 1,6
 

Maryann Martone maryann@ncmir.ucsd.edu Core Leader Neurosciences
Lab 1,2,3,4

J. Andrew McCammon jmccammon@ucsd.edu Core Leader Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lab 1 

Terunaga Nakagawa nakagawa@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Chemistry & Biochemistry
Labs 2,3
 

Sanjay Nigam snigam@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Biomedical Sciences
Labs 1,5
 

Stanley Opella sopella@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lab 3
 

Robert Sah rsah@ucsd.edu Core Leader Bioengineering
Labs 3,5
 

Michael Sailor msailor@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Chemistry & Biochemistry
Lab 4
 

Gabriel Silva gsilva@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Bioengineering
Labs 1,2,3,4,5

  
Gina Sosinsky gina@ncmir.ucsd.edu Core Leader Neurosciences
Labs 2,3,6 

Shyni Varghese svarghese@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Bioengineering
Labs 4,5
 

Jing Wang jw800@biomail.ucsd.edu Program Faculty Biological Sciences
Labs 2,3


Leor Weinberger lsweinberger@ucsd.edu Program Faculty Chemistry & Biochemistry
Labs 1,3
 

Eric Wong ecwong@ucsd.edu Core Leader Radiology
Labs 2,3 



 

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