Welcome to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Irvine.  We are a community of 14 faculty and approx. 60 senior researchers, postdoctoral fellows, and Ph.D. graduate students actively engaged in innovative research, discovery, and training in modern microbiology and molecular genetics, supported by about 20 staff members.  The research in the Department covers a wide range of topics with special emphasis on:

bacterial gene expression and pathogenesis,
viral gene expression and host interactions,
trypanosome molecular biology, vector-borne malaria and dengue fever transmission, nuclear-cytoplasmic transport and intracellular signaling, regulation of eukaryotic gene expression, mRNA splicing and processing, cancer genetics and tumor suppressors, ion channel expression, and functional genomics and bioinformatics.

Our research is supported by both public and private funding agencies, and our interdisciplinary research programs are complemented by interactions with students, staff, and faculty in other departments in the School of Medicine, the School of Biological Sciences, and the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences.  For our teaching activities, we offer lecture and laboratory courses for medical students and Ph.D. graduate students as well as research opportunities for graduate students, undergraduate students, visiting scholars, and summer students.

I hope you find our site to be a useful window through which you can glimpse into the life of the Department and learn about our graduate program and research projects.

Thanks for visiting,

Rozanne Sandri-Goldin
Professor and Department Chair