Adam Abate

Adam Abate

arabate@gmail.com

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: Microfluidic technologies for ultrahigh-throughput single cell analysis

Mentorship:
7/2021 DEI Champions Training

https://www.abatelab.org/

David Agard

David Agard

david@agardlab.org

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Structure, function, and folding of proteins, chromosomes, and centrosomes

Mentorship:
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
03/2022 DEI Champions Training

http://www.msg.ucsf.edu/agard

Bassem Al-Sady

Bassem Al-Sady

he/him/his

bassem.al-sady@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Research summary: Mechanisms of formation and maintenance of epigenetic elements

Mentorship:
3/2019 Promoting Student Mental Health
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
6/2019 Implicit Bias Workshop
Initiated the faculty peer-to-peer training effort of the Graduate Mentor Development Program
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
11/2021 Defining Distance Traveled: A Working Session
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
5/2022 Effective Strategies for IDPs
11/2022 Faculty Development Training: Inclusivity is a design question. Which practices will you use?
4/2024 Supporting Learners in Distress

https://al-sadylab.ucsf.edu/

Steven Altschuler

Steven Altschuler

he/him/his

steven.altschuler@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Systems pharmacology and quantitative cell biology for drug discovery in cancer, intestinal and neurodegenerative diseases

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS) with Sharon Milgram
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
6/2021 Promoting Learner Mental Health
7/2021 DEI Champions Training
7/2021 Career Conversations
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now

http://www.AltschulerWuLab.org

Michelle Arkin

Michelle Arkin

michelle.arkin@ucsf.edu

Professor and Chair, Pharmaceutical Chemistry; Co-Director, Small Molecule Discovery Center, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Chemical biology of protein-protein interactions and small-molecule drug discovery using biophysical and biological approaches

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS) with Sharon Milgram
9/2020 DEI Champion Training
2/2021 Instructed Mentoring to RCR for Postdocs
5/2021 Sharpening Your Research Mentoring Skills
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
11/2022 Faculty Development Training: Inclusivity is a design question. Which practices will you use?
11/2023 Inclusive Mentor/Manager Training
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/arkin

Daniele Canzio

Daniele Canzio

he/him/his

Daniele.Canzio@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor in Residence, Neurology

Research summary: Transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms generating neural cell-surface diversity

Mentorship:
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
9/2020 Mentoring Across Differences
9/2021 Disabilities Awareness Training

https://canziolab.ucsf.edu/

Tony Capra

Tony Capra

tony@capralab.org

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: Using the tools of computer science and statistics to address problems in evolution, genetics, and biomedicine

Mentorship:
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
4/2022 Setting Expectations with a "Welcome to the Lab" Letter
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now
4/2024 Supporting Learners in Distress
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

http://www.capralab.org/

Fred Chang

Fred Chang

he/him/his

fred.chang@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cell & Tissue Biology

Research summary: Cell morphogenesis, regulation of cell shape and size, and cell mechanics

Mentorship:
4/2019 Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab, Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
6/2021 DEI Champions Training
4/2023 Graduate Faculty Development Program (GFDP): When Someone isn't meeting your expectations

http://fredchanglab.ucsf.edu/

Yifan Cheng

Yifan Cheng

yifan.cheng@ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Using molecular electron microscopy as a tool, we are interested in the structural and functional characterizations of macromolecules assemblies, including endocytotic machinery, clathrin coated vesicles, and protein degradation machinery, proteasome.

Mentorship:
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
4/2021 DEI Champions Training
4/2022 Setting Expectations with a "Welcome to the Lab" Letter
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

http://cryoem.ucsf.edu

Jan Christoph

Jan Christoph

Jan.Christoph@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute

Research summary: Physics of complex biological systems, artificial intelligence, emergent phenomena in cells and (cardiac) tissues, self-organization, biomechanics and electrophysiology.

https://cardiacvision.ucsf.edu/

Willow Coyote-Maestas

Willow Coyote-Maestas

willow.coyote-maestas@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: High throughput quantitative approaches for studying membrane proteins folding, function, and trafficking and how mutations tune these processes in evolution and disease.

Mentorship:

11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://www.wcoyotelab.com/

Charles Craik

Charles Craik

he/him/his

charles.craik@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Protein engineering, mutagenesis, heterologous gene expression, enzyme mechanisms and inhibitor design.

Mentorship:
2016 HHMI Gilliam Training
12/2019 ACRA: Setting Training Expectations for Trainees on the Academic Career Track
7/2021 DEI Champions Training
7/2021 Career Conversations
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now
11/2022 Faculty Development Training: Inclusivity is a design question. Which practices will you use?
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/craik

Bill DeGrado

Bill DeGrado

he/him/his

william.degrado@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Molecular design as an approach to understanding macromolecule structure and function.

Mentorship:
2017 HHMI Gilliam Training
2019 NSF Application Training Leader
3/2021 NIH OITE Mental Health and Wellbeing series: Depression and Depressive Disorders
3/2022 Avoiding Social Bias Detours
5/2022 DEI Champions Training
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/degrado

Nicole DelRosso

Nicole DelRosso

Nicole.Delrosso@ucsf.edu

Sandler Faculty Fellow, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Developing high-throughput methods to measure and manipulate protein interactions in human gene regulation.

https://www.delrossolab.com/

Joseph DeRisi

Joseph DeRisi

joe@derisilab.ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Infectious Disease, Genomics

Mentorship:
5/2021 DEI Training for MSTP Council & Students
8/2021 DEI Champions Training
11/2021 Defining Distance Traveled: A Working Session
11/2024 11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://derisilab.ucsf.edu

Sophie Dumont

Sophie Dumont

she/her/hers

sophie.dumont@ucsf.edu

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: How cellular machines generate and respond to mechanical force to coordinate cell division; imaging and biophysical perturbations of cells

Mentorship:
2018 UCSF Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award
4/2019 Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab
5/2020 Faculty - Grad Division Task Force #1 on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion
6/2020 Biophysics Graduate Program Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Working Group
6/2020 UCSF Science Action Network for Equity (SANE)
8/2020 Tetrad Graduate Program Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Committee
9/2020 Biophysics Rotation Advice Workshop organizer
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
10/2020 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
5/2021 Sharpening Your Research Mentoring Skills
2/2023 Faculty Development Training: Strategies to Transparently Set Expectations in your Lab

http://dumontlab.ucsf.edu/

Robert Edwards

Robert Edwards

he/him/his

robert.edwards@ucsf.edu

Professor, Neurology

Research summary: Mechanism and regulation of neurotransmitter release; neurotransmitter uptake by synaptic vesicles; role of alpha-synuclein in neurodegeneration.

Mentorship:
9/2020 Gathering in Community: A Training for Faculty & Staff
9/2020 Mentoring Across Differences
8/2021 DEI Champions Training
9/2021 Disabilities Awareness Training

https://edwardslab.ucsf.edu/

Hana El-Samad

Hana El-Samad

helsamad@gmail.com

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Computational biology/stochastic biological dynamics; modeling of biological systems

Mentorship:
4/2020 Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A for Faculty

Pamela England

Pamela England

pamela.england@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Ion channel structure-function, synaptic plasticity.

Mentorship:
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab
9/2020 Mentoring Across Differences
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
3/2022 DEI Champions Training
5/2022 Effective Strategies for IDPs

http://englandlab.ucsf.edu/

Alan Frankel

Alan Frankel

frankel@cgl.ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Assembly and function of RNA-protein complexes; structure and mechanisms of HIV Tat and Rev; HIV-host protein interactions

Mentorship:
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab
10/2020 DEI Champions Training
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices

https://frankellab.ucsf.edu/

James Fraser

James Fraser

he/him/his

jfraser@fraserlab.com

Professor and Chair, Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences Department, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: Determining how engineering protein conformational ensembles change in response to chemical, physical, and genetic perturbations using structural, computational, and evolutionary approaches

Mentorship:
2019 Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab, DEI Champions Training
2020 Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion, QBC Diversity Workshop Leader, DEI Bookclub Moderator, Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels, Growing Healthy Mentorship in these Unforgetable Times, Promoting Learner Mental Health, HHMI Mentorship Skills Development
2022 Effective Strategies for IDPs, Dis/ability Awareness Training, QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now
2024 Supporting Learners in Distress, The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring

https://fraserlab.com/

Jennifer Fung

Jennifer Fung

jennifer.fung@ucsf.edu

Professor In Residence, Ob/ Gyn CRS Division

Research summary: Chromosome Segregation in Meiosis

Mentorship:
7/2021 DEI Champions Training
7/2021 Career Conversations

http://funglab.ucsf.edu/

Danica Galonic Fujimori

Danica Galonic Fujimori

she/her/hers

danica.fujimori@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Chemical Approaches to Investigate Enzymatic Function

Mentorship:
3/2020 Promoting Students' Mental Health
4/2020 Mental Health in a Pandemic
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
10/2021 Sharpening Your Research Mentoring Skills
4/2023 Graduate Faculty Development Program (GFDP): When Someone isn't meeting your expectations
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

http://fujimorilab.ucsf.edu

Zev Gartner

Zev Gartner

zev.gartner@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: New methods for synthesizing and perturbing functional biological structures

Mentorship:
NSF GRFP Workshop Leader
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab
12/2019 ACRA: Setting Training Expectations for Trainees on the Academic Career Track
7/2021 DEI Champions Training
10/2021 CCMBM - "Welcome to the Lab" Letter workshop

https://gartnerlab.ucsf.edu/

Hani Goodarzi

Hani Goodarzi

he/him/his

hani@arcinstitute.org

Core Investigator, Arc Institute; Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Cancer Systems Biology and Translational Genomics

Mentorship:
4/2019 Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab
10/2020 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
1/2021 DEI Champions Training

http://goodarzilab.ucsf.edu/

Michael Grabe

Michael Grabe

michael.grabe@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Computational methods for understanding ion channel and transporter function

Mentorship:
07/2021 DEI Champions Training
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://cvri.ucsf.edu/people/michael-grabe-phd

Carol Gross

Carol Gross

cgrossucsf@gmail.com

Professor, Cell & Tissue Biology

Research summary: Regulation of gene expression.

Mentorship:
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab

John Gross

John Gross

he/him/his

jdgross@cgl.ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Structural biology and mechanism of gene specific translation control; RNA turnover; macromolecular NMR spectroscopy.

Mentorship:
4/2019 Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab
3/2020 Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion
4/2020 Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A for Faculty
4/2020 Effective Strategies for IDPs for Partial Resumption of Lab Research
10/2020 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
2/2021 DEI Champions Training
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels

https://grosslab.ucsf.edu

Bo Huang

Bo Huang

he/him/his

bo.huang@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Using super-resolution optical microscopy to understand the molecular architecture inside a cell.

Mentorship:
4/2020 Effective Strategies for Individual Development Plans Workshop
10/2020 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
11/2020 Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
6/2021 DEI Champions Training
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
4/2022 Setting Expectations with a "Welcome to the Lab" Letter

http://huanglab.ucsf.edu

Matthew Jacobson

Matthew Jacobson

matt.jacobson@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Fundamental principles of physical chemistry and biological applications specifically modeling proteins and protein-ligand complexes using physics-based methods

Mentorship:
6/2021 DEI Champions Training

https://jacobsonlab.wordpress.com

Lily Jan

Lily Jan

lily.jan@ucsf.edu

Professor, Physiology & Howard Hughes

Research summary: Structure-function studies of potassium channels in mammalian heart and hippocampus.

Mentorship:
9/2020 Mentoring Across Differences
12/2020 DEI Champions Training

Bill Jia

Bill Jia

bill.jia@ucsf.edu

Sandler Fellow, Physiology

Research summary: Non-neural cellular computation using ion physiology (Not accepting students until 7/2025)

https://jialab.org

David Julius

David Julius

david.julius@ucsf.edu

Professor, Physiology

Research summary: The Molecular Biology of Nociception and Pain

Mentorship:
9/2021 Disabilities Awareness Training

http://physio.ucsf.edu/julius/

Natalia Jura

Natalia Jura

she/her/hers

natalia.jura@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Structure/function studies of proteins kinases and their signaling networks

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
4/2021 DEI Champions Training
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices

https://cvri.ucsf.edu/people/natalia-jura-phd

Martin Kampmann

Martin Kampmann

he/him/his

martin.kampmann@ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Protein homeostasis in normal & disease states of human cells, in particular neurodegeneration. We integrate CRISPR-based functional genomics & bioinformatics with mechanistic biochemistry & biophysics to identify disease mechanisms & therapeutic targets.

Mentorship:
4/2019 Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions Inherent in the Research Lab
4/2020 Mental Health in a Pandemic
6/2020 Tools and Tips for Virtual Learning
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
9/2020 Mentoring Across Differences
10/2020 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
7/2021 Career Conversations
9/2021 Disabilities Awareness Training
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
2/2023 Faculty Development Training: Strategies to Transparently Set Expectations in your Lab
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

http://kampmannlab.ucsf.edu

Laurel Kinman

Laurel Kinman

she/her/hers

laurel.kinman@ucsf.edu

Sandler Fellow, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Understanding the structural basis for cellular information processing via multi-site phosphorylation; developing structural methods to study highly dynamic protein complexes

https://kinmanlab.ucsf.edu/

Tanja Kortemme

Tanja Kortemme

she/her/hers

tanjakortemme@gmail.com

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: Computational biology, prediction and design of protein interactions and networks, synthetic biology

Mentorship:
2019 Acknowledging and Negotiating the Mentee-Mentor Tensions
Inherent in the Research Lab, Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS), ACRA: Setting Training Expectations for Trainees on the Academic Career Track
2020 Effective Strategies for IDPs, Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A for Faculty, Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff, Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab, Setting Expectations with a "Welcome to the Lab" Letter, DEI Champions Training
2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
2023 Faculty Development Program: Supervising People Who Aren't You: Mentoring/Managing different work styles, Faculty Development Training: Strategies to Transparently Set Expectations in your Lab, Graduate Faculty Development Program (GFDP): When Someone isn't meeting your expectations
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

http://kortemmelab.ucsf.edu/

Nevan Krogan

Nevan Krogan

he/him/his

nevan.krogan@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Functional Insights from Genetic and Physical Interaction Maps

Mentorship:
6/2021 DEI Champions Training

http://kroganlab.ucsf.edu

Wendell Lim

Wendell Lim

wendell.lim@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Design principles of cellular signaling systems

5/2022 DEI Champions Training

http://limlab.ucsf.edu/

Hiten Madhani

Hiten Madhani

hitenmadhani@gmail.com

Professor & Vice-Chair, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: (1) Silencing of transposons and repeats by chromatin and RNAi; (2) fungal pathogenesis

Mentorship:
4/2021 Allyship: Taking Action
8/2021 DEI Champions Training

http://madhanilab.ucsf.edu

Aashish Manglik

Aashish Manglik

he/him/his

aashish.manglik@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Molecular basis of transmembrane signaling using integrative techniques in structural biology, biophysics, pharmacology, and protein engineering.

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
11/2020 Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
2/2021 DEI Champions Training
Setting Expectations with a "Welcome to the Lab' Letter (Parts 1 and 2)
Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
Growing Healthy Mentorship in these Unforgetable Times
Promoting Learner Mental Health
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now

http://www.mangliklab.com

Wallace Marshall

Wallace Marshall

wallace.ucsf@gmail.com

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: How the three-dimensional geometry of cells can be generated from the one-dimensional genome. Engineering and physical principles that underlie cellular morphogenesis.

Mentorship:
10/2020 The Science of Mentoring
11/2020 Optimizing the Practice of Mentoring
12/2020 Leveling the Playing Field by Articulating Expectations
1/2021 Improving Communication with your Mentee
2/2021 Sharing Mentoring Challenges and Solutions: Peer mentoring for mentors/Talkback session
3/2021 Reflecting on cultural diversity, inclusion, and equity and their role in your mentoring relationships
3/2021 Two-day mentorship development skills workshop
10/2021 HHMI Mentorship Skills Development Course in DEI

https://cellgeometry.ucsf.edu/

Daniel Minor

Daniel Minor

daniel.minor@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cardiovascular Research Institute

Research summary: Molecular Basis of electrical signaling; Ion channel structure, function, and modulation. Membrane protein structure.

https://cvri.ucsf.edu/people/daniel-minor-phd

Dyche Mullins

Dyche Mullins

he/him/his

dyche.mullins@ucsf.edu

Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Cellular signaling systems controlling the three-dimensional organization of the actin cytoskeleton.

Mentorship:
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
10/2020 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices

http://mullinslab.ucsf.edu/

Geeta Narlikar

Geeta Narlikar

geeta.narlikar@ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Chromatin Remodeling

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
10/2020 Gathering in Community: a Training for Faculty & Staff
2/2021 DEI Champions Training

https://narlikarlab.ucsf.edu

Angela Phillips

Angela Phillips

she/her/hers

angela.phillips@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Research summary: Biophysical constraints on protein evolution at the host-virus interface

https://aphillipslab.ucsf.edu/

Mark Pownall

Mark Pownall

he/him/his

Mark.Pownall@ucsf.edu

Sandler Fellow, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: The Pownall lab is combining advanced microscopy and developmental biology to understand how chromatin and transcription are organized during cell-fate specification in vivo.

https://www.pownall-lab.org

Andrej Sali

Andrej Sali

sali@salilab.org

Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: Computation grounded in the laws of physics and evolution to study the structure and function of proteins

Mentorship:
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
03/2022 DEI Champions Training

http://www.salilab.org/

Jason Sello

Jason Sello

jason.sello@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Discovery, design, and synthesis of biologically small molecules and elucidation of their modes of action

Mentorship:
1/2022 Equity Based Interview Practices
5/2022 Effective Strategies for IDPs
4/2024 Supporting Learners in Distress
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

Seth Shipman

he/him

seth.shipman@gladstone.ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences

Research summary: Molecular technologies to better understand and treat disease.

https://www.shipmanlab.org/

Brian Shoichet

Brian Shoichet

bshoichet@gmail.com

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Molecular docking, structure-based inhibitor discovery, G Protein Coupled Receptors, colloidal aggregation and phospholipidosis in drug discovery and formulation, drug discovery for analgesia and psychiatric disorders.

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
4/2019 NIH-Mandated and directed 3 hr diversity training workshop
2019 NSF Application Training Leader
1/2021 DEI Champions Training
5/2022 Effective Strategies for IDPs
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now

https://bkslab.org/

Kevan Shokat

Kevan Shokat

he/him/his

kevan.shokat@ucsf.edu

Professor & Dept. Chair, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Development of Novel Tools to Study Signal Transduction

Mentorship:
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab
12/2020 DEI Champions Training

http://shokatlab.ucsf.edu/

Xiaokun Shu

Xiaokun Shu

he/him/his

xiaokun.shu@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Protein engineering, reporter design, drug discovery, cellular and animal imaging, protein liquid-liquid phase separation, visualizing subcellular processes and enzyme activities such as protease, kinase and small GTPase.

Mentorship:
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
9/2021 DEI Champions Training

https://shulab.ucsf.edu/

Dan Southworth

Dan Southworth

daniel.southworth@ucsf.edu

Associate Professor, Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Research summary: Cryo-electron microscopy and the structure/function of molecular chaperones and AAA+ proteins involved in protein quality control and cell signaling

Mentorship:
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now

Jeff Spence

Jeff Spence

he/him/his

Jeff.Spence@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Research summary: We primarily develop methods and theory to understand how evolution shapes the genetic architecture of complex traits at different biological scales, but we are also broadly interested in any biological puzzles that present interesting computational or statistical challenges.

Katherine Susa

Katherine Susa

katherine.susa@ucsf.edu

Sandler Fellow, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Mechanisms of transmembrane signaling within the immune system (Students co-mentored by faculty in program.)

Mentorship:
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://www.susalab.com/

Jeannette Tenthorey

Jeannette Tenthorey

she/her/hers

jeannette.tenthorey@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Mechanistic evolution of innate antiviral immunity

Mentorship:
2023 Inclusive Research Mentor Training
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://tenthoreylab.ucsf.edu/

John Vaughen

John Vaughen

John.Vaughen@ucsf.edu

Sandler Fellow, Anatomy

Research summary: Tracking and manipulating lipids in the brain
(Students co-mentored by faculty in program)

Mentorship:
2021 Community College Research Mentor Training
2020 Inclusive Research Mentor Training

https://www.membrainlab.com/

Kliment Verba

Kliment Verba

kliment.verba@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Using cryo-EM to understand how protein kinases use inherent structural plasticity for information processing in cell signaling.

Mentorship:

11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://www.verbalab.science/

Peter Walter

Peter Walter

he/him/his

walter@cgl.ucsf.edu

Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics

Research summary: Protein sorting and organelle biogenesis.

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
3/2020 Promoting Student Mental Health: A Presentation and Discussion (Staff and Faculty)

http://walterlab.ucsf.edu/

Lei Wang

Lei Wang

he/him/his

lei.wang2@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry & the Cardiovascular Research Institute

Research summary: Design and genetically encode unnatural amino acids for in vivo investigation of cellular signaling and for the development of new biotherapeutics.

Mentorship:
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
4/2021 Foundations of DEI
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/wang

Orion Weiner

Orion Weiner

orion.weiner@ucsf.edu

Professor in Residence, Cardiovascular Research Institute

Research summary: How cells generate polarity; cell migration; chemotaxis.

Mentorship:
9/2020 DEI Champions Training
4/2022 Setting Expectations with a "Welcome to the Lab" Letter
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

http://weinerlab.com

James Wells

James Wells

jim.wells@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Small molecule drug discovery; drug mechanisms as they relate to apoptosis and cancer.

Mentorship:
3/2020 Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/wells

Allison Williams

Allison Williams

allison.williams@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology

Research summary: Bacterial cell wall nanomachines

https://williamslab.ucsf.edu/

Torsten Wittmann

Torsten Wittmann

torsten.wittmann@ucsf.edu

Cell & Tissue Biology

Research summary: Microtubule cytoskeleton dynamics and function in cell dynamics and morphogenesis such as cancer and hiPSC-derived neurons using advanced microscopy, optogenetics and microfabrication.

https://profiles.ucsf.edu/torsten.wittmann

Lani Wu

Lani Wu

she/her/hers

lani.wu@ucsf.edu

Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Drug discovery, cancer drug resistance, neurodegeneration, high-throughput imaging, machine learning, organoid models of disease

Mentorship:
4/2019 Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
2/2021 Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels
6/2021 Promoting Learner Mental Health
7/2021 DEI Champions Training
7/2021 Career Conversations
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now

http://www.altschulerwulab.org

Balyn Zaro

Balyn Zaro

balyn.zaro@ucsf.edu

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry

Research summary: Chemical biology and mass spectrometry-based approach to optimizing drug selectivity and studying the innate immune system and blood formation

Mentorship:
11/2019 Equity and Inclusion in the Lab
2/2020 DEI Champions Training
5/2021 Sharpening Your Research Mentoring Skills
3/2022 Avoiding Social Bias Detours
6/2022 Career Conversations
11/2022 QBC Retreat DEI Workshop w/ Carlos Hoyt: ...inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now
11/2024 The 4 Touchstones of a High-Functioning Mentoring Relationship

https://pharm.ucsf.edu/zaro