Graduate Programs in Bioscience (GPB) mentors and educators are crucial to our training mission.  Those who serve as primary mentors are GPB Home Area Members, and others who participate in the educational mission are general members.

To provide a supportive learning environment for our trainees, many GPB-affiliated faculty have completed an optional UCLA mentor training that covers six primary mentoring competencies, or they have participated in mentor training as a Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellow mentor, and they have stayed current by taking a refresher course every 3-4 years. Those faculty are indicated below with a star (*). To learn more about faculty mentor training, visit our faculty mentor webpage.

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Systems Biology
Abderemane-AliFayal Abderemane-Ali*
AbelE. Dale Abel
AbramsonJeffrey Abramson
AdamsJohn S. Adams
AdhikariAvishek Adhikari
AgakGeorge Agak
AgazaryanNzhde Agazaryan
AharoniDaniel Aharoni
AjijolaOlujimi Ajijola*
AlberFrank Alber
AlfaroMichael Alfaro
AllardPatrick Allard*
AlwardBeau Alward
AndrewsAnne M. Andrews*
AracAhmet Arac*
AraujoJesus Araujo
ArboledaValerie Arboleda*
ArdellJeffrey Ardell
ArnoldArthur Arnold
ArnoldCorey Arnold
ArumugaswamiVaithilingaraja Arumugaswami
AskaryAmjad Askary*
BackusKeriann Backus
BalliuBrunilda Balliu*
BanerjeeUtpal Banerjee
BariAusaf Bari
BaumLinda Baum
BaviNavid Bavi
BellDoug Bell
BenjaminDaniel Benjamin*
BensingerSteven Bensinger*
BertholetAmbre Bertholet*
BhaduriAparna Bhaduri*
BighamAbigail Bigham*
BisleyJames W Bisley
BitanGal Bitan*
BlackDouglas L. Black*
BlairThomas Blair
BlaisdellAaron Blaisdell
BlankIdan Blank*
BlockGene Block
BlowerSally Blower
BostaniMaryam Bostani
BoutrosPaul C. Boutros*
BradleyPeter Bradley*
BraybookSiobhan Braybrook*
BrechaNicholas Brecha
BronsteinJeff Bronstein
BrownMatthew Brown*
BuiAlex Bui*
BuonomanoDean Buonomano
ButlerSamantha Butler*
ButteManish Butte
CacalanoNicholas A Cacalano
CahillCatherine Cahill
CaiHua Linda Cai
CareyMichael F. Carey*
Carmichael Jr.S. Thomas Carmichael Jr.
CastrellonJaime Castrellon
ChanfreauGuillaume Chanfreau*
ChangAlbert Chang
ChangKai-Wei Chang
ChangTimothy Chang
ChenIrene Chen
ChenJau-Nian Chen*
ChenYvonne Chen*
ChengQuen Cheng*
ChiangChih-Sheng Jason Chiang
ChienAichi Chien*
ChouTom Chou
ChristodoulouAnthony Christodoulou
ChristofkHeather Christofk
ChurchlandAnne Churchland
ClarkAmander Clark*
ClarkPeter Clark*
ClewettDavid Clewett*
ClubbRobert T. Clubb *
CohnDaniel H. Cohn
ColeyAustin Coley
CollerHilary A Coller*
ColwellChristopher Colwell
ConwayStuart Conway
CooperZiva Cooper
CorreaStephanie Correa*
CovarrubiasAnthony Covarrubias *
CramerSteven Cramer
CrooksGay M. Crooks*
CrosbieRachelle Crosbie
CrossKathryn Cross
CzerninJohannes Czernin
DaboussiLydia Daboussi*
DahlbomMagnus Dahlbom
DamoiseauxRobert Damoiseaux
De BiaseLindsay De Biase *
De La Torre-UbietaLuis De La Torre-Ubieta*
De RobertisEdward M. De Robertis
DebArjun Deb
DeedsEric Deeds
DemerJoseph Demer
DemerLinda Demer*
DeNardoLaura DeNardo*
DengMario C. Deng*
DengSophie Deng*
DetersKacie Deters
DevaskarSherin U Devaskar
DipoppaMario Dipoppa*
DivakaruniAjit Divakaruni *
DonahueTimothy Donahue
DonaldsonGregory Donaldson
DongHong Wei Dong
DonleaJeff Donlea
DreierLars Dreier
DubinettSteven M. Dubinett
EconomouJames Economou
EghbaliMansoureh Eghbali
EisenbergDavid S. Eisenberg
ElashoffDavid Elashoff
EllingsonBenjamin Ellingson
EmaminejadSam Emaminejad
ErnstJason Ernst*
EskinEleazar Eskin
EvansChristopher Evans
FainGordon Fain
FanGuoping Fan
FanselowMichael Fanselow
FarmerD’Juan Farmer*
FaullKym Faull*
FeigonJuli Feigon
FeldmanJack Feldman
FieldGreg Field
FinnJohn Finn
FlintJonathan Flint
FogelBrent L. Fogel*
FrancoElissa Franco
FregosoOliver Fregoso*
FreimerNelson Freimer
FrenchSamuel French
FriedItzhak Fried
FryeMark Frye*
GalvanAdriana Galvan
GanzTomas Ganz
GaoFeng Gao
GarfinkelAlan Garfinkel
GarudNandita Garud*
GelbartWilliam M. Gelbart*
GeschwindDaniel Geschwind
GhafarianMelissa Ghafarian
GhoshKaustabh Ghosh
GizaChristopher Giza
GlanzmanDavid L. Glanzman
GlasgowBen Glasgow
GoldinJonathan Goldin
GoldsteinAndrew Goldstein*
GolshaniPeyman Golshani
Gomez-PinillaFernando Gomez-Pinilla*
GompertsBrigitte Gomperts*
GonenTamir Gonen*
GorinMichael Gorin
GraeberThomas Graeber *
GreenShulamite Green
GrodyWayne Grody
GuoFeng Guo
GuoMing Guo
GuoZhefeng Guo
GwackYousang Gwack*
HadjioannouArion Hadjioannou
HallemElissa A Hallem*
HankinsonOliver Hankinson
HarperRonald Harper
HarrisNeil Harris
HartensteinVolker Hartenstein
HayesTikvah Hayes
HermanJonathan Herman
HevenerAndrea Hevener
HillKent Hill*
HinmanJason Hinman
HirschAnn M. Hirsch
HoTiffany Ho
HoffmanAlexander Hoffmann*
HoffmanJohn Hoffman*
HoftmanGil Hoftman
HsiaiTzung Hsiai
HsiaoElaine Hsiao*
HsuJeffrey Hsu
HsuWilliam Hsu*
HuJimmy Hu*
HuangJing Huang
HukAlex Huk
IkotunOluwatayo Ikotun*
IwamotoKeisuke Iwamoto
IzquierdoAlicia Izquierdo*
JacobsJonathan P. Jacobs
JacobsenSteven Jacobsen
JamshidiNeema Jamshidi*
JendersRobert Jenders
JohnVarghese John
JohnsonTracy Johnson*
JoshiShantanu Joshi*
JungSu Yon Jung
KamChen Kam
KamarizaMireille Kamariza*
KaoJonathan Kao
KaufmanDaniel L. Kaufman
KhakhBaljit S. Khakh
KimHyun Grace Kim
KnowltonBarbara Knowlton
KoehlerCarla Koehler*
KohnDonald Kohn
KornblumHarley Kornblum
KrakowDeborah Krakow
KrantzDavid Krantz
KruglyakLeonid Kruglyak*
KulkarniDevesha Kulkarni
KulkarniHrishikesh Kulkarni
KumarRajesh Kumar
KuoCaroline Kuo
KurdistaniSiavash K. Kurdistani
LabusJennifer Labus
LaiAlbert Lai*
LambJames Lamb*
LangeKenneth L. Lange
LaskiFrank A. Laski
LauriaMichael Lauria
LavretskyHelen Lavretsky
LawrenceRosalie Lawrence
LazazzeraBeth Lazazzera*
LealStephanie Leal
LechnerMelissa Lechner
LeeJohn Lee
LeitchDuncan Leitch
LeuchterAndrew Leuchter
LevineMichael S. Levine
LevineRaphael D. Levine
LiHuiying Li *
LiJingyi Jessica Li*
LiMelody Li
LiZhaoping Li
LiauLinda Ming-Huei Liau
LinChentao Lin
LinNeil Lin
LipshutzGary Lipshutz
LiuZili Liu
Lloyd-SmithJames Lloyd-Smith*
LoRoger Sheng-Chieh Lo
LohmuellerKirk Lohmueller*
LongJeff A. Long*
LooJoseph A. Loo
LooSandra K Loo
LowDaniel Low*
LowryWilliam Lowry
LuDaniel Lu*
LuoChongyuan Luo
LusisAldons J Lusis*
MaceyPaul Macey*
MackJulia Mack
Mackenzie-GrahamAllan Mackenzie-Graham
MaidmentNigel Maidment
MarbanEduardo Marban
MartinKelsey Martin
Martinez-AgostoJulian A Martinez-Agosto*
MasmanidisSotiris Masmanidis*
MassalyNicolas Massaly*
MathewsPaul Mathews*
MayerEmeran A Mayer
MazieroDanilo Maziero
McEvoyMegan McEvoy
McNitt-GrayMichael F. McNitt-Gray
MehtaMayank Mehta
MemarzadehSanaz Memarzadeh
MendizabalAdys Mendizabal
MetznerWalter Metzner
MeyerAaron Meyer *
MeyerCaffi Anne Louise Meyer
MiceliM. Carrie Miceli
MicevychPaul Micevych
MikkolaHanna Mikkola
MillerJeff F. Miller
MittelmanSteven Mittelman
ModyIstvan Mody
MonaChristine Mona*
MontiMartin M. Monti
MurphyJennifer Murphy
NakanoAtsushi Nakano*
NarrKatherine Narr
NathansonDavid A Nathanson
NelsonStanley F. Nelson
NemethElizabeta Nemeth
NeylonJohn Neylon*
NguyenKim-Lien Nguyen*
NovitchBennett Novitch*
NowickiTheodore Nowicki
NurmiErika Nurmi
O'ConnellDylan O’Connell
O'DellThomas O’Dell
O'SullivanTim O’Sullivan*
OgunyemiLola Ogunyemi
OlceseRiccardo Olcese
Olde LoohuisLoes Olde Loohuis*
OphoffRoel A. Ophoff*
OshiroThomas Oshiro
OttoliaMichela Ottolia
OzcanAydogan Ozcan
PackardRene Packard
PajonkFrank Pajonk
PajukantaPaivi Pajukanta*
PapazianDiane M. Papazian
PappJeanette C. Papp *
ParkSang-June Park
PasaniucBogdan Pasaniuc*
PaulKetema Paul
PellegriniMatteo Pellegrini*
PengChao Peng*
PengYi-Rong Peng*
PenichetManuel Penichet
PernasLena Pernas
PetersenNicole Petersen
PhelpsPatricia E. Phelps
PimentelHarold Pimentel
Pinter-WollmanNoa Pinter-Wollman
PiriNatik Piri
PisegnaJoseph Pisegna
PlathKathrin Plath
PoeGina Poe
Portera-CailliauCarlos Portera-Cailliau*
PrinsMayumi Prins
PrinsRobert Prins*
ProsperAshley Prosper
Puig-SausCristina Puig-Saus
PyleApril Pyle*
QiXiangrong Qi*
QuijadaPearl Quijada
QuinlanMargot E. Quinlan
RaduCaius G. Radu
RaduRoxana Radu*
RandoTom Rando
RaoDinesh S. Rao
RaoJian Yu Rao
ReavisEric Reavis
ReddySrinivasa T. Reddy
ReedElaine F. Reed
ReueKaren Reue *
RexachJessica Rexach*
RibasAntoni Ribas
RingachDario Ringach
RissmanJesse Rissman
RodriguezJose Alfonso Rodriguez*
RossMindy Ross
RowatAmy Rowat
RuanDan Ruan*
SadeghiSaman Sadeghi
SagastiAlvaro Sagasti*
SallamTamer Sallam*
SamarasingheRanmal Samarasinghe *
SamelsonAvi Samelson
SampathAlapakkam P Sampath
SankararamanSriram Sankararaman*
ScafoglioClaudio Scafoglio*
SchaueDorthe Schaue
SchiestlRobert H. Schiestl
SchlingerBarney Schlinger
SchmittDanielle Schmitt
SchweizerFelix Schweizer
SearsKaren Sears*
SeetChristopher Seet
ShackelfordDavid Shackelford
ShafaatHannah Shafaat
ShahPavak Shah*
ShahanRachel Shahan
ShamsLadan Shams*
ShattuckDavid Shattuck
ShirihaiOrian Shirihai
ShivkumarKalyanam Shivkumar
SiekhausDaria Siekhaus
SilvaAlcino Silva
SilvermanDaniel Silverman
SimMyung-Shin Sim
SinghRam Raj Singh
SobelEric Sobel*
SobreiraDebora Sobreira*
SpencerMelissa J. Spencer
SpigelmanIgor Spigelman
SterniniCatia Sternini
StoyanovaTanya Stoyanova
SuchardMarc Suchard*
SunHui Sun
sunYi Sun
SunYizhou Sun
SungKyung Hyun Sung
TairaRicky Taira
TarlingElizabeth Tarling*
TeitellMichael Teitell
TennStephen Tenn
TeSlaaTara TeSlaa*
ThomasMichael Thomas
TianJide Tian
TidballJames G. Tidball
Ton-ThatHung Ton-That*
TontonozPeter Tontonoz
TorniniValerie Tornini
TorresJorge Torres
ToumaMarlin Touma*
TrachtenbergJoshua Trachtenberg
TsengChi-Hong Tseng
TsengHsian-Rong Tseng
TwardDaniel Tward*
UddinLucina Uddin
UlmertH. David Ulmert
UmarSoban Umar
VallimThomas A. Vallim*
van DamR. Michael van Dam*
van der BliekAlexander M. van der Bliek
Van NormanJaimie Van Norman
VaseghiMarmar Vaseghi
VergaraJulio Vergara
VilainEric Vilain
VillanuevaClaudio Villanueva*
VlashiErina Vlashi*
VondriskaThomas M Vondriska *
VoskuhlRhonda Voskuhl
WalkerDavid Walker
WangCun-Yu Wang
WangWei Wang*
WassumKate M Wassum*
WatsonKarol Watson
WeidhaasJoanne Weidhaas
WeissShimon S. Weiss
WellsMichael Wells*
WiersmaRod Wiersma
WikenheiserAndrew Wikenheiser*
WilkeScott Wilke
WilliamsDavid Williams*
WilsonJennifer Wilson*
WitteOwen N. Witte
WohlschlegelJames A. Wohlschlegel*
WollmanRoy Wollman
WongDavid Wong
WoodsRoger Woods*
WrightErnest Wright
WuHolden Wu *
WuLily Wu
WuTing-Ting Wu *
WuYe Wu
XiaoXinshu Grace Xiao*
XuShili Xu
YangLili Yang*
YangOtto Yang
YangX. William Yang *
YangXia Yang*
YangXian-Jie Yang *
YaoJingwen Yao*
YinYi Yin*
YokotaTomohiro Yokota
YoungStephen G. Young*
ZackJerome Zack
ZaitlenNoah Zaitlen
ZamudioJesse R. Zamudio*
ZeigerWilliam Zeiger*
ZhangChuchu Zhang
ZhangDi Zhang
ZhangYe Zhang
ZhengJie Zheng *
ZhongXiaodong Zhong
ZhouQing Zhou
ZhouXianghong Jasmine Zhou*
ZhouZ. Hong Zhou*
ZipurskyS. Lawrence Zipursky
ZylberbergJoel Zylberberg