Faculty
The PiBS Training Program provides a unique, multi-institute / multi-department training environment that includes faculty from the School of Biological Sciences at UC San Diego, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, and the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at UC San Diego. The spirit of community that is embodied in this program leads to a higher quality of science and serves as an excellent model to the trainees of the many benefits of working in a cooperative manner.
Program Directors
Executive Committee
Training Faculty
- Susan Ackerman, Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine
- Omar Akbari, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Johnatan (Yonatan) Aljadeff, Assistan Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Eric Allen, Professor, Scripps Institute of Oceanography
- Nicola Allen, Associate Professor, Salk Institute
- Rommie Amaro, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Kenta Asahina, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- Vineet Augustine, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Eiman Abdel-Azim, Associate Professor, Salk Institute
- Matthew Banghart, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Brenda Bloodgood, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Alex Chaim, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Sreekanth Chalasani, Associate Professor, Salk Institute
- Andrew Chisholm, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Elsa Cleland, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Heidi Cook-Andersen, Assistant Professor, OBGYN & Reproductive Sciences
- Kimberly Cooper, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Arshad Desai, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Alexandra Jazz Dickinson, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Jesse Dixon, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- Joseph Ecker, Professor, Salk Institute
- Dannielle Engle, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- Andreas Ernst, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Mark Estelle, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Ronald Evans, Professor, Salk Institute
- Emma Farley, Assistant Professor, Medicine
- Fred Gage, Professor, Salk Institute
- Stacey Glasgow, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Susan Golden, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Ananda Goldrath, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Sung Han, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- Nan Hao, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Ryan Hibbs, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Daniel Hollern, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- David Holway, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Enfu Hui, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Tony Hunter, Professor, Salk Institute
- Sara Jackrel, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Yishi Jin, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- James Kadonaga, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Susan Kaech, Professor, Salk Institute
- Jan Karlseder, Professor, Salk Institute
- Takaki Komiyama, Professor, Neurosciences
- Pallav Kosuri, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- Sergey Kryazhimskiy, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Julie Law, Associate Professor, Salk Institute
- Kuo Lee, Professor, Salk Institute
- Jill Leutgeb, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Stefan Leutgeb, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Byungkook Lim, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Matthew Lovett-Barron, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Jens Lykke-Andersen, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Dmitry Lyumkis, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- Cressida Madigan, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Uri Manor, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Stephen Mayfield, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Hiruy Meharena, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Christian Metallo, Professor, Bioengineering
- Andrew Muroyama, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Cornelis Murre, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Sonya Neal, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- James Nieh, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Axel Nimmerjahn, Associate Professor, Salk Institute
- Karen Oegema, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Satchidananda Panda, Professor, Salk Institute
- Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Michael Perry, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Samuel Pfaff, Professor, Salk Institute
- Lorraine Pillus, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Joseph Pogliano, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Kit Pogliano, Professor, Division of Biological Sciences
- Jose Pruneda-Paz, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Deepshika Ramanan, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- Samara Reck-Peterson, Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine
- Diana Rennison, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Scott Rifkin, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Fabian Rivera-Chavez, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
- Patrick Rohner, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Cory Root, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Alistair Russell, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Julian Schroeder, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Gerald Shadel, Professor, Salk Institute
- Jonathan Shurin, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Rob Signer, Associate Professor, Medicine
- Monique Smith, Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Chih-Ying Su, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Francesca Telese, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
- Christina Towers, Assistant Professor, Salk Institute
- David Traver, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Emily Troemel, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Kay Tye, Professor, Salk Institute
- Elizabeth Villa, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Jing Wang, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
- Dong-Er Zhang, Professor, Pathology
- Ye Zheng, Associate Professor, Salk Institute
- Elina Zuniga, Professor, School of Biological Sciences
