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DEPARTMENT OF CELL BIOLOGY
Chariman's Overview
STAFF
Sandra L. Schmid, Ph.D.*	Chairman and Professor
Francisco Asturias, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor
William E. Balch, Ph.D.**	Professor
Benjamin Cravatt, Ph.D.***	Assistant Professor
Philip E. Dawson, Ph.D.****	Assistant Professor
Matthias Falk, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor
Colin Fletcher, Ph.D.*****	Assistant Professor
Velia Fowler, Ph.D.	Professor
Martin Friedlander, M.D., Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Larry R. Gerace, Ph.D.*	Professor
Xiaohua Gong, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor
Klaus Hahn, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Shelley Halpain, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Anne M. Hanneken, M.D.	Associate Professor
Jeffrey Harper, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Steve Kay, Ph.D.*****	Professor
Nalin M. Kumar, D.Phil.	Associate Professor
Pamela Maher, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Ichiro Maruyama, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Stephen P. Mayfield, Ph.D.****	Associate Professor
Mark Mayford, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Alan McLachlan, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Ronald A. Milligan, Ph.D.	Professor
Alok K. Mitra, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor
Ardem Patapoutian, Ph.D.*****	Assistant Professor
Vito Quaranta, M.D.	Associate Professor
Kevin F. Sullivan, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Peter N.T. Unwin, Ph.D.	Professor
Clare Waterman-Storer, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Winzeler, Ph.D.*****	Assistant Professor
John Yates III, Ph.D.	Associate Professor
Mark J. Yeager, M.D., Ph.D.⁺	Professor
ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS
Roger Beachy, Ph.D.	Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO
Herbert Boyer, Ph.D.	Indian Wells, CA
Steven Briggs, Ph.D.	Torrey Mesa Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Bertil Daneholt, M.D.	Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Humphrey Gardner, M.D.	Biogen, Cambridge, MA
Jane Glazebrook, Ph.D.	Torrey Mesa Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Stephen Goff, Ph.D.	Torrey Mesa Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Mich B. Hein, Ph.D.	Epicyte, San Diego, CA
Fumiaki Katagiri, Ph.D.	Torrey Mesa Research Institute, San Diego, CA
Edward Korzus, Ph.D.	University of California, San Diego, CA
David Richards, D.D.S.	San Diego, CA
Kenneth M. Tokita, M.D.	Medici Foundation, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
SENIOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Meir Aridor, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Serguei Bannykh, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Diego, CA
Claire Delahunty, Ph.D.
Scott E. Franklin, Ph.D.
Edith Hintermann, Ph.D.
Youngsheng Liu, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Activx, San Diego, CA
Rashmi S. Nunn, Ph.D.⁺⁺⁺
Maria C. Subauste, Ph.D.
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
Brian D. Adair, Ph.D.
David Alabadi, Ph.D.
Flavio Alcantara, M.D.⁺⁺⁺
Bernard B. Allan, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Metabolix, San Francisco, CA
Angels Almenar, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Diego, CA
Christelle Alory, Ph.D.
Yu An, Ph.D.
Masatake Asano, Ph.D.
Danuta Balicki, M.D., Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
Amos Baruch, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Francisco, CA
Janna Bednenko, Ph.D.
Gangamani Beligere, Ph.D.
Iris Ben-Efraim, Ph.D.
Sophie Beraud-Dufour, Ph.D.
Christopher Boddy, Ph.D.
Michael Bracey, Ph.D.
Larry M. Brill, Ph.D.
Emma Brown, Ph.D.
Karin Brunschwig-Dietrich, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Brian Ceresa, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Maria F. Ceriani, Ph.D.
Ci-Di Chen, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
An-Chi Cheng, Ph.D.
Woo Sik Chung, Ph.D.
Gino Cingolani, Ph.D.
Angela Clement, Ph.D.
Juliana Conkright, Ph.D.
Sean Conner, Ph.D.
Laura Crane, Ph.D.⁺⁺⁺
Christian Dammann, Ph.D.
Mark J. Daniels, Ph.D.
Leif Dehmelt, Ph.D.
Kristin Demarest, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Division of Animal Resources, TSRI
Lan Ding, Ph.D.
Kelly A. Dryden, Ph.D.
Ming Duanmu, M.D.⁺⁺⁺
Eberhard Durr, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Sidney-Kimmel Cancer Center, San Diego, CA
Ekem Efuet, Ph.D.
Robert S. Fischer, Ph.D.
Kenneth Fish, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Department of Neuropharmacology, TSRI
Laurence Florens, Ph.D.
Alexandrine Froger, Ph.D.
Kazuhito Fukuoka, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Diego, CA
Kumiko Fukuoka, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Diego, CA
Frederique Gaits, Ph.D.
Gianluigi Giannelli, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Sibylla Grahn, Ph.D.
Lisa A. Hannan, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Munksgaard International Publishers, Ltd., La Jolla, CA
Stacy Harmer, Ph.D.
Frank Harmon, Ph.D.
Hsiu-Cheng Hung, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Department of Immunology, TSRI
Takato Imaizumi, Ph.D.
Miwako Ishido, Ph.D.
Thomas Jahn, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Elizabeth Kaback, M.D.
Martha Kanemitsu, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Arena Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
Naohiko Koshikawa, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Vadim Kraynov, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Beckman Instruments, San Diego, CA
Valerie Lagree, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Andria Lee, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Acadia Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA
Hanjo Lim, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Aventis Pharmaceuticals, Bridgewater, NJ
Rita Lim, Ph.D.⁺⁺⁺
Klara Limbaeck-Stokin, Ph.D.
Dayin Lin, Ph.D.
Ryan Littlefield, Ph.D.⁺⁺	The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Hongbin Liu, Ph.D.
Patricia Lopez, Ph.D.
Susan K. Lyman, Ph.D.
Michael MacCoss, Ph.D.
Uma Manjappara, Ph.D.
Michelle Mardahl-Dumesnil, Ph.D.
Paloma Mas, Ph.D.
William Hayes McDonald, Ph.D.
Kirsten McIntosh, Ph.D.
Colleen J. McKiernan, Ph.D.⁺⁺⁺
E. John Meharra, Ph.D.⁺⁺⁺⁺
Stephan Miller, Ph.D.
Karine Monier, Ph.D.
Carolyn Moores, Ph.D.
Abdelaziz Moqrich, Ph.D.
Brian Moyer, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Senomyx, Inc., La Jolla, CA
Perihan Nalbant, Ph.D.
Sherri L. Newmyer, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Francisco, CA
Peter Nielsen, Ph.D.
John Offer, Ph.D.
Tomoyuki Oba, Ph.D.
Atsushi Otani, M.D.
Tokitaka Oyama, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
Lesley Page-Chappell, Ph.D.
Binaya Panda, Ph.D.
Ambra Pozzi, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Susana Prieto, Ph.D.
Natalie Prigozhina, Ph.D.
Leon Reijmers, Ph.D.
John F. Reilly, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Neurome, La Jolla, CA
Gang Ren, Ph.D.
Matthew Ritter, Ph.D.
Tracy A. Romano, Ph.D.
Pei Rong, Ph.D.
Isabelle Rouiller, Ph.D.
Anita Saraf, Ph.D.
Toshiaki Sakisaka, Ph.D.
Karina Sampson, Ph.D.
Susann Schenk, Ph.D.
Eric C. Schirmer, Ph.D.
Iris Schmitt, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Thomas Schröter, Ph.D.
Thomas Schultz, Ph.D.
Audra Scully, Ph.D.
Maithili Shah, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Diego, CA
Fiona Smart, Ph.D.
Aravind Somanchi, Ph.D.
Gina Story, Ph.D.
Greg Szulgit, Ph.D.⁺⁺	University of California, San Diego, CA
Hong Tang, M.D.
Mariana Tihova-Petrova, Ph.D.
Alexei Toutchkine, Ph.D.
Sudha Veeraraghavan, Ph.D.
Astrid Visser, Ph.D.
Marlon Watson, Ph.D.
Frank Weber, Ph.D.
Torsten Wittmann, Ph.D.
Harald Wodrich, Ph.D.
Kenichi Yamaguchi, Ph.D.
Liang Zeng Yan, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN
Ming Yan, Ph.D.⁺⁺	Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, TSRI
Neng Yang, Ph.D.
Marcelo Yanovsky, Ph.D.
Masahiro Yasudo, Ph.D.
Rie Yasudo, Ph.D.
Jin-San Yoo, Ph.D.⁺⁺⁺
Wenhong Zhu, Ph.D.
SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATES
Hilda Edith Aguilar de Diaz, M.D.
Tinglu Guan, Ph.D.
Robert Summers, Jr., Ph.D.⁺⁺⁺
STAFF SCIENTISTS
Hanna Damke, Ph.D.
Mary Morrison, Ph.D.
Elizabeth Wilson, B.S.
VISITING INVESTIGATORS
Christine Van Broeckhoven, Ph.D.	University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
* Joint appointment in the Department of Molecular Biology
** Joint appointments in the Department of Molecular Biology and Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases
*** Joint appointments in the Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
**** Joint appointment in The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology
***** Joint appointment in Institute for Childhood and Neglected Diseases
⁺ Joint appointments in the Departments of Molecular Biology and Vascular Biology
⁺⁺ Appointment completed; new location shown
⁺⁺⁺ Appointment completed
⁺⁺⁺⁺ Deceased