Research

Faculty mentors in CCBGAP have research programs that span the breadth of chemistry — including chemical biology and structural biology, biofuels, organic synthesis, materials, catalysis, analytical and computational chemistry, and more. All have outstanding records as mentors of undergraduate students. Please use the hotlinks below to learn more about their interests and work.
Atsumi, Shota Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering satsumi@ucdavis.edu 218 Chemistry
Beal, Peter A. Nucleic acids chemical biology pabeal@ucdavis.edu 5469 Chemistry Annex
Berben, Louise A. Synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry laberben@ucdavis.edu 3465 Chemistry Annex
Charette, Bronte Bio-inspired photoactive transition metal chemistry bjcharette@ucdavis.edu 226 Chemistry
Chen, Xi Chemical biology/glycoscience xiichen@ucdavis.edu  212 Chemistry
Crabtree, Kyle N. Astrochemistry, microwave spectroscopy and low-temperature kinetics kncrabtree@ucdavis.edu 190 Chemistry
David, Sheila S. Chemical biology of DNA repair ssdavid@ucdavis.edu 312 Chemistry
Donadio, Davide Theory of nanostructures, interfaces and transport phenomena ddonadio@ucdavis.edu 163A Chemistry
Fisher, Andrew J. Protein structure-function and X-ray crystallography ajfisher@ucdavis.edu 4462 Chemistry Annex
4A Briggs Hal
Franz, Annaliese Organic synthesis, catalysis, and medicinal chemistry akfranz@ucdavis.edu 314 Chemistry
Feihn, Oliver Mass spectrometry and computation chemistry for metabolomics ofiehn@ucdavis.edu 1313 GBSF (Genome Center)
Heffren, Marie Bioinorganic chemistry in nutrition and diseases, chemical biology and imaging mcheffern@ucdavis.edu 210 Chemistry
Kauzlarich, Susan M. Synthesis and characterization of inorganic solid state and nanomaterials for emerging technologies smkauzlarich@ucdavis.edu 206 Chemistry
Lebrilla, Carlito B. Bioanalytical mass spectrometry cblebrilla@ucdavis.edu 2465 Chemistry Annex
Louie, Angelique Molecular imaging and novel imaging probes aylouie@ucdavis.edu 3317 GBSF (Genome Center)
Murray, Dylan Protein phase separation and aggregation, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, structural biology, biophysical chemistry dtmurray@ucdavis.edu 208 Chemistry
Newmann, Elizabeth Developing multimodal imaging approaches for exploring the molecular and cellular architecture of complex diseases ekneumann@ucdavis.edu 5465 Chemistry Annex
Nguyen, Tran Fundamental atmospheric oxidation; cloud/fog and aerosol chemistry; e-cigarette and combustion chemistry tbn@ucdavis.edu 4113 Meyer Hall
Olson, David E. Organic Synthesis and Chemical Neuroscience deolson@ucdavis.edu 2463 Chemistry Annex
Osterloh, Frank E. Inorganic nanomaterials for solar energy conversion fosterloh@ucdavis.edu 2467 Chemistry Annex
Pitts, Cody Synthetic Chemistry and Physical Organic Chemistry crpitts@ucdavis.edu 320 Chemistry
Shaw, Jared T. Synthetic methods, natural products, chemical biology jtshaw@ucdavis.edu 326 Chemistry
Song, Chenchen
theoretical and computational methods to understand excited state phenomena and photochemical processes
 ccsong@ucdavis.edu 4469 Chemistry Annex
Siegel, Justin B. Computational enzyme design jbsiegel@ucdavis.edu 1315 GBSF (Genome Center)
Tantillo, Dean J. Theoretical organic chemistry, natural products biosynthesis djtantillo@ucdavis.edu 4465 Chemistry Annex
Taufour, Valentin Synthesis and characterization of new quantum materials, magnetism, superconductivity vtaufour@ucdavis.edu 217 Physics
Velázquez, Jesús M. Synthesis and characterization of materials at the meso/nanoscale for energy conversion and environmental remediation. jevelazquez@ucdavis.edu
 5432 Chemistry Annex
Wang, Lee-Ping Energy conversion in catalysis and biomolecules; theoretical and computational chemistry leeping@ucdavis.edu
 163C Chemistry