All Fields of Science
Academic Internship Program: Click here for more information.
CAMP-UCR -
California Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Engineering and Mathematics
Contact: Jo-Ann Heick (joann.heick@ucr.edu)
Coordinator CAMP-UCR
(951)
827-5326
Now accepting
The Fall Term Research Application
Deadline: OCTOBER 9, 2006
MARC U* Program - Minority Access to Research Careers
For more information, please visit their website: http://www.marcu.ucr.edu
Program Coordinator: Nancy Day
Email: MARCU@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5449
MSRIP - Mentoring Summer Research Internship Program
Deadline: January 16, 2006
UC Center Sacramento Scholar Intern Program, Sacramento, CA
For more information, contact Emily Papavero at Emily.Papavero@ucr.edu, (951)827-4234.
UCDC Program (UC Riverside Washington Center Program). Click Here for more information.
Contact: Trina.Elerts@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2634
Deadline for Fall Program: April 15, 2005
Deadline for Winter 2006: October 14, 2005
Deadline for Spring 2006: November 8, 2005
Deadline for Summer 2006: February 10, 2006
UC LEADS - UC Leadership Excellence in Advanced Degrees
Duration: Two years, beginning summer 2006
Deadline: January 28, 2006 or until all positions are filled.
Award Notification: February 25, 2006 or at the earliest possible time
Biochemistry
Richard Debus,
Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor of Biochemistry
Email: Richard.Debus@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-3483
Michael Dunn, Physical Biochemistry, Molecular Endocrinology
Professor of Biochemistry
Email:Michael.Dunn@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4235
Paul Larsen, Molecular Biology, Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Signal Transduction
Email: Paul.Larsen@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2026
Xuan Liu, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Research
Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Email: Xuan.Liu@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4350
Not accepting undergradute students at this time:
Ernest Martinez, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Research
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry
Email: Ernest.Martinez@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2031
Chemistry (click on name to see their webpage)
Roger Atkinson, Gas-phase atmospheric chemistry of organic compounds
Professor of Atmospheric Chemsitry
Email: Roger.Atkinson@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-4191
Chris Bardeen,
How transport processes occur in complex systems, ranging from live cells to organic semiconductor thin films
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email: Christopher.Bardeen@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2723
Not accepting undergradute students at this time:
Guy Bertrand, Organic and Inorganic Main Group Element Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
Email: Guy.Bertrand@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2719
Quan "Jason" Cheng, Analytical and Materials Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email: Quan.Cheng@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2702
Currently Looking for Undergraduate Chemistry Majors:
Jay Gan, Processes of organic compounds in ecosystems, such as biotic and abiotic degradation, adsorption, transport, aquatic bioaccumulation, plant uptake, and ecotoxicity.
Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Email: jianying.gan@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2712
Cynthia Larive, Analytical Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
Email: Cindy.Larive@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2990
Not accepting undergradute students at this time:
Michael Marsella, Organic, Materials and Polymer Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
EmaiL: Michael.Marsella@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-7223
Thomas Morton, Organic Chemistry & Neuroscience
Professor of Chemistry
Email: Thomas.Morton@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4735
Len Mueller, Physical Chemistry
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Email: Leonard.Mueller@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3565
Not accepting undergradute students at this time:
Michael Pirrung, Organic Chemistry
Professor of Chemistry
Email: Micheal.Pirrung@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-2722
Chris Reed, Inorganic Chemistry,
making molecules that haven't been made before
Professor of Chemistry
Email: Chris.Reed@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5197
Gary Scott, Photophysics and Photochemistry Laser Spectroscopy
Professor of Chemistry
Email: Gary.Scott@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3212
Francisco Zaera,
Surface reactions at the molecular level
Professor of Chemistry
Email: Francisco.Zaera@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5498
Jingsong Zhang, Physical, Analytical and Environmental Chemistry
Associate Professor of Chemistry
Email: Jingsong.Zhang@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4197
Environmental/Earth Science
Roger Atkinson, Gas-phase atmospheric chemistry of organic compounds
Professor of Atmospheric Chemsitry
Email: Roger.Atkinson@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-4191
Currently Looking for Undergraduate Chemistry Majors:
Jay Gan, Processes of organic compounds in ecosystems, such as biotic and abiotic degradation, adsorption, transport, aquatic bioaccumulation, plant uptake, and ecotoxicity.
Professor of Environmental Chemistry
Email:
jianying.gan@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2712
Robert Green, Defines irrigation requirements of turfgrasses and studying methods, including plant selection and modifications to irrigation and turfgrass management practices, leading to increased irrigation water efficiency and conservation (http://ucrturf.ucr.edu)
Specialist in Botany
Email: Robert.Green@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2107
Brian Lanoil, Life in Extereme Environments, Geomicrobiology, Microbioal Ecology
Assistant Professor of Evironmental Science and Evironmental Microbiology
Email: Brian.Lanoil@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2711
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Tim Lyons,
Sedimentary Geochemistry, Biogeochemical Cycles, Astrobiology
Professor of Biogeochemistry
Email: timothy.lyons@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3106
David Oglesby,
Earthquake physics (in particular, the effects of fault geometry and stress inhomogeneity on earthquake dynamics), computational models of faulting, wave propagation, and earthquake ground motion
Assistant Professor in Earth Science
Email:
david.oglesby@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-
2036
Alan Williams,
Stable isotope geochemistry; meteoric origin, fractionation mechanisms, and transport of ground waters. Chemical hydrology; chemical and isotopic interaction of water and rock in environmental, groundwater and hydrothermal circulation systems.
Associate Professor in Earth Sciences
Email:
alan.williams@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-
4611
Life Sciences
Michael F. Allen, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology and Plant Pathology
Email: Michael.Allen@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5494
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Douglas Altshuler,
Evolutionary and physiological ecology, with emphasis on the aerodynamics, neural control, and behavior of flight
Assistant Professor of Biology
Email: Douglas.Altshuler@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4286
Currently Looking for Undergraduates (work study, too):
Edith Allen,
Restoration Ecology,
Nitrogen Deposition
Professor of Plant Ecology
Email: Edith.Allen@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2123
Peter Atkinson,
Genetics of medical and agricultural important insects;
Development of transposable elements as gene vectors in insects
Professor of Entomology
Email: Peter.Atkinson@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-4782
Julia Bailey-Serres,
Signal Transduction and Gene Regulation
Professor of Genetics
Email: Julia.Bailey@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-3738
Nancy Beckage,
Biochemical host-parasite and host-pathogen relationships;
Insect proteins, Immunity, Endocrinology and Virology
Professor of Entomology and Neuroscience
Email:Nancy.Beckage@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-3521
Kathy Borkovich, Signal transduction pathways used by fungi to respond to their environment
Associate Professor of Plant Pathology
Email:
katherine.borkovich@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2753
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Ring Carde,
insect responses to semiochemicals,
evolution of communication systems,
use of semiochemicals in pest management
Professor of Entomology
Email: Ring.Carde@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-4492
Richard A. Cardullo, Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Richard.Cardullo@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-6457
Mark A. Chappell, Physiology, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Mark.Chappell@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-7709
Timothy Close, Genetics of environmental stress tolerance
Professor of Genetics
Email: Timothy.Close@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-3318
Michael Coffey,
Phytophthora systematics, genetics, and pathology
Professor of Plant Pathology
Email:Michael.Coffey@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-4764
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Margarita Curras-Collazo
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
Email:
Margarita.Curras@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3960
Currently Looking for Undergraduates (especially Freshmen and Sophomores)
Paul De Ley
Assistant Professor of Nematology
Email: Paul.DeLey@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2280
Daphne J. Fairbairn, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Daphne.Fairbairn@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-4791
Theodore Garland, Jr., Physiology, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Theodore.Garland@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3524
John Gatesy, Evolutionary Biology
Assistant Professor of Biology
Email: John.Gatesy@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3800
Robert Green,
Defines irrigation requirements of turfgrasses and studying methods, including plant selection and modifications to irrigation and turfgrass management practices, leading to increased irrigation water efficiency and conservation (http://ucrturf.ucr.edu)
Specialist in Botany
Email: Robert.Green@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2107
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Sarjeet Gill,
Cellular and molecular approaches to elucidate the mechanisms of toxicity and cell membrane transport
Professor and Chair
Cell Biology and Entomology
Email: Sarjeet.Gill@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3087
Leah Haimo, Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Leah.Haimo@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5632
Kimberly A. Hammond, Phsyiology, Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor of Biology
Email: kimberly.hammond@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4767
Dan Hare, Evolutionary ecology of plant-herbivore and tritrophic interactions,Chemical ecology, Ecological genetics
Professor of Entomology
Email: Daniel.Hare@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2858
Cheryl Hayashi, Evolutionary Biology, Cell and Molecular Biology
Assistant Professor of Biology
Email: Cheryl.Hayashi@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4322
Requirement: Must have completed most of BIOL 5 series and BIOL 105 (Genetics).
Bradley Hyman, Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Bradley.Hyman@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5911
Seung-Chul Kim, Plant molecular systematics and evolutionary genetics
Professor of Systematics
Email: Seung-Chul.Kim@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2403
John Klotz, Ant control and ant behavior
Professor, Urban Entomologist
Email:john.klotz@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3898
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Bob Krieger, Extension toxicology,Human chemical encounters, Chemical risk assessment
Extension Toxicologist, Department of Entomology
Email: bob.krieger@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3724
Project: We will review chemical constituents of
food, food consumption patterns, and natural and synthetic chemical
contributions to diet. It can be a project for credit and/or cash (a little).
Requirements: Good library skills and chemical literacy are required.
Betty Lord, Pollination, Pollen Tube Guidance, Pistil ECMs, Adhesion
Professor of Botany
Email: Elizabeth.Lord@ucr.edu
Phone:
(951)827-4441
Morris Maduro, Developmental Biology
Assistant Professor of Biology
Email: Morris.Maduro@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-7196
Not accepting undergradute students at this time:
Manuela Martins-Green, Cell and Molecular Biology
Associate Professor of Cell Biolgy
Email:Manuela.Martins@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2585
Dmitri Maslov, Molecular and Evolutionary Biology
Associate Professor of Biology
Email: Dmitri.Maslov@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-6485
Jocelyn Millar, Identification and synthesis of pheromones, kairomones and other semiochemicals mediating insect behavior;Insect behavior; Biological control of pests of Eucalyptus
Professor of Entomology
Email: Jocelyn.Millar@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5821
Requirements:
The student(s) that I might need for the coming year should be either:
1. upper level chemistry majors who have taken and done well in both organic chemistry lecture and lab courses, so that they can do some straightforward synthesis work safely and responsibly.
2. Biology majors with an interest in organismal biology and ecology
Eugene Nothnagel, Arabinogalactan Proteins, Cell Wall Structure,Plasma Membrane Structure and Dynamics
Professor of Plant Physiology and Plant Physiologist
Email: Eugene.Nothnagel@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3777
Leonard Nunney, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Leonard.Nunney@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5011
Currently Looking for Undergraduates (work study, too):
Martha L. Orozco-Cardenas,
transforming plants of interest to researchers at UCR
Plant Transformation Research Center-PTRC, Director
Email:
mlorozco@citrus.ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2885
Thomas Perring, Arthropod Vectors of Plant Pathogens; Biology, Ecology, and Control of Agriculturally-Important Mites; Integrated Pest Management
Professor of Entomology
Email: Thomas.Perring@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-4562
Edward Platzer, Cell Biology, Physiology
Professor of Nematology and Biology
Email: Edward.Platzer@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4352
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Antoon Ploeg,
Nematode control: this includes research on the use of cover crops, soil solarization, biofumigation, bio-rational nematicides, and nematode resistant rootstocks.
Professor of Nematology
Email: Antoon.Ploeg@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3192
David Reznick, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: David.Reznick@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5820
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Derek Roff, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Derek.Roff@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2437 Mikeal Roose, Identification of genes causing apomixis in citrus, Breeding and evaluation of new asparagus cultivars
Professor of Genetics
Email:Mikeal.Roose@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-4137
John Rotenberry, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email:John.Rotenberry@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3953
Wendy Saltzman, Physiology, Evolutionary Biology
Asst. Adjunct Professor of Biology
Email: Wendy.Saltzman@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-6356
Clay Sassaman, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email:Clay.Sassaman@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5932
Frances Sladek, DNA Binding,
Protein-Protein Interactions,
Post-translational modifications,
Genome-wide analysis of HNF4 target genes
Associate Professor of Cell Biology & Associate Toxicologist
Email: Frances.Sladek@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2264
Mark Springer, Molecular and Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Mark.Springer@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-6458
Patricia Springer, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Plant Development Associate Professor of Genetics
Email:Patricia.Springer@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-5785
Daniel Straus, Cell and Molecular Biology
Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Biology
Email: Daniel.Straus@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5612
Not accepting undergradute students at this time:
Prudence Talbot,
reproductive biology using mammalian systems;
effect of mainstream and sidestream cigarette smoke on the oviduct, uterus, and corpus luteum of hamsters
Professor of Cell Biology
Email:Prudence.Talbot@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-3768
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Nick Toscano,
develop information about insect-crop pests, insect pest interactions with their hosts, insecticides, insect and crop phenology
Specialist &
Extension Entomologist
Email: nick.toscano@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5826
Currently Looking for Undergraduates to work
in his laboratory in Bachelor Hall, the Botanic Gardens, or/and the University Herbarium.
Giles Waines
Director, Botanic Gardens, and Herbarium
Professor of Genetics and Geneticist
Email: Giles.Waines@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3706
Linda Walling, Plant/pest Interactions, Defense Mechanisms, Aminopeptidases and Transferases That Modify the N-terminus of Proteins
Professor of Genetics
Email:Linda.Walling@ucr.edu
Phone:(951)827-4437
William Walton, IPM of vector and pest arthropods particularly mosquitoes; Biogeography of freshwater flora and fauna; Trophic interactions of freshwater food webs
Professor of Entomology
Email: William.Walton@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3919
Frank Wong,
Urban plant pathology
Assistant CE Specialist & Assistant Plant Pathologist
Email:Frank.Wong@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-2936
Raphael Zidovetzki,
study of the lipid bilayer membrane structure in transmembrane transduction of biological signals
Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Email: Raphael.Zidovetzki@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5628
Marlene Zuk, Evolutionary Biology
Professor of Biology
Email: Marlene.Zuk@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3952
Math and Statistics
Subir Ghosh, Statistical design and analysis of experiments, Linear models, Industrial statistics, Sample surveys
Professor of Statistics
Email:Subir.Ghosh@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3781
Dan Jeske
Associate Professor of Statistics, Director of Statistical Collaboratory
Email: Daniel.Jeske@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-3014
Dr. Jianzhong Wu, UCR College of Engineering, For more information, Click here.
Physics
Gabriela Canalizo, Astrophysics:
Observational extragalactic astrophysics, active galactic nuclei (AGN), quasar host galaxies and their environments, broad absorption line quasars, ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs)
Professor of Earth Sciences
Email: Gabriela.Canalizo@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5310
Roland Kawakami, Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Professor of Physics
Email: Roland.Kawakami@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5343
Currently Looking for Undergraduates:
Allen Mills,
Experimental Solid State and Atomic Physics
Professor of Physics
Email: Allen.Mills@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-9469 Terrence O'Neill,
Physicist
Email: Terrence.ONeill@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5021
Ben Shen,
Distinguished Professor of Physics
Email: Benjamin.Shen@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5309 Allen Zych, Space physics and astrophysics; atmospheric and solar neutron sources; celestial gamma-ray sources
Professor of Physics
Email: Allen.Zych@ucr.edu
Phone: (951)827-5642
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