RNA CENTER - Key Persons


Al Pisano

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Dean, Jacobs School of Engineering UCSD

Brian Yee

Job Titles:
  • Bioinformatics Software Developer Focuses on Building Tools for Large - Scale Analysis Projects Such As ENCODE and the U19 Metadata Database Initiative.

Chris Glass

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD / Professor of Medicine, UCSD

Don Cleveland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Distinguished Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD / Department Chair, Cellular and Molecular Medicine

Gene W. Yeo - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founding Director

Katherine Rothamel

Job Titles:
  • Expert in RNA - Binding

Kit Pogliano

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair of Molecular Biology UCSD / Dean, Biological Sciences UCSD

Richard C. Atkinson

Job Titles:
  • Endowed Chair

Stefan Aigner

Stefan is a senior RNA biochemist, stem cell biologist, and neuroscientist with extensive experience in funding acquisition and project management.

Stephen W. Kuffler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Chairman in Biology, UCSD

Steve Dowdy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD

Steve Garfin

Job Titles:
  • Dean, School of Medicine UCSD / Interim Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences

Sue Ackerman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Scientific Advisory Board
  • Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UCSD

Tao Yu

Job Titles:
  • Expert
Tao is an expert in high-throughput sequencing, functional genomics, circRNA biochemistry, RNA base editing, and molecular engineering. As a postdoc, Tao developed circRNA sequencing methods to measure circRNA expression profiles for biomarker discovery and mechanistic studies (manuscript in preparation). Tao is also developing a method to map the binding sites of RNA binding proteins on circRNAs to investigate the function of circRNA-protein interactions.

Walter J. Zable

Job Titles:
  • Endowed Chair of Engineering / Member NAE, NAI