Cell Biology and Neuroscience

Subject abbreviation: CBNS College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences

David A. Eastmond, Ph.D., Chair Department Office, 2710 Life Sciences, Psychology Bldg.

• (951) 827-5903; cbns.ucr.edu

Professors

Michael E. Adams, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and

Neuroscience/Entomology) Maksim Bazhenov, Ph.D. David A. Eastmond, Ph.D. Sarjeet S. Gill, Ph.D. Manuela Martins-Green, Ph.D. Frances M. Sladek, Ph.D. B. Glenn Stanley, Ph.D. (Cell Biology and

Neuroscience/Psychology) Prudence Talbot, Ph.D. Raphael Zidovetzki, Ph.D. Professors Emeritus

Katharine D. Atkinson, Ph.D. Associate Professors

Jeffrey B. Bachant, Ph.D. Margarita C. Currás-Collazo, Ph.D. Scott N. Currie, Ph.D. Karine G. Le Roch, Ph.D. Constance I. Nugent, Ph.D. Assistant Professors

Todd Fiacco, Ph.D. I-Chueh Huang, Ph.D. Fedor V. Karginov, Ph.D. Nicole zur Nieden, Ph.D. Martin Riccomagno, Ph.D.

** Adjunct Associate Professors

André Obenaus, Ph.D.

Research in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience uses multidisciplinary approaches to understanding basic cellular processes in various tissues, including the nervous system, as well as more integrative levels of analysis, including behavior. Areas of research represented in the department include the following:

• • Biophysical properties of excitable

membranes

• • DNA repair

• • Transcriptional regulation

• • Mechanisms of toxicity

• • Insect development

• • Membrane transport

• • Mechanisms of mitotic chromosome

transmission

• • Telomere maintenance

• • Synaptic structure and function

• • Changes in nervous system with experience

• • Interactions of nervous and endocrine

systems

• • Reproductive biology and fertilization

• • Chemokine function in wound healing and

tumor development

• • Glia-neuron signaling and sensory and motor

integrative processes

• • RNA Biology