Research
Faculty mentors in CCBGAP have research programs that span the breadth of chemistry — including chemical biology and structural biology, biofuels, organic synthesis, materials, catalysis, analytical and computational chemistry, and more. All have outstanding records as mentors of undergraduate students. Please use the hotlinks below to learn more about their interests and work.

Balch, Alan L. | Endohedral fullereness; luminescence for metal-metal bonding | albalch@ucdavis.edu | 220 Chemistry |
Beal, Peter A. | Nucleic acids chemical biology | pabeal@ucdavis.edu | 5469 Chemistry Annex |
Berben, Louise A. | Synthetic and physical inorganic chemistry | laberben@ucdavis.edu | 3465 Chemistry Annex |
Britt, R. David | Biological and synthetic energy catalysis, metalloenzymes, EPR spectroscopy | rdbritt@ucdavis.edu | 190 Chemistry |
Casey, William H. | Reaction kinetics in geochemistry; aqueous clusters | whcasey@ucdavis.edu | 1480 Chemistry Annex |
Chen, Xi | Chemical biology/glycoscience | xiichen@ucdavis.edu | 212 Chemistry |
Crabtree, Kyle N. | Astrochemistry, microwave spectroscopy and low-temperature kinetics | kncrabtree@ucdavis.edu | 190 Chemistry |
David, Sheila S. | Chemical biology of DNA repair | ssdavid@ucdavis.edu | 312 Chemistry |
Donadio, Davide | Theory of nanostructures, interfaces and transport phenomena | ddonadio@ucdavis.edu | 163A Chemistry |
Fisher, Andrew J. | Protein structure-function and X-ray crystallography | ajfisher@ucdavis.edu | 4462 Chemistry Annex 4A Briggs Hall |
Franz, Annaliese K. | Organic synthesis, catalysis, and biofuels | akfranz@ucdavis.edu | 314 Chemistry |
Gervay-Hague, Jacquelyn | Carbohydrate synthesis, biological profilling, and vaccine design | jgervayhague@ucdavis.edu | 5463 Chemistry Annex |
Hammock, Bruce | Synthesis of complex oxylipins and development of medicinal chemicals to alter their levels | bdhammock@ucdavis.edu | 66 Briggs Hall |
Kauzlarich, Susan M. | Synthesis and characterization of inorganic solid state and nanomaterials for emerging technologies | smkauzlarich@ucdavis.edu | 206 Chemistry |
Koski, Kristie | Materials and condensed matter chemistry | koski@ucdavis.edu | 222 Chemistry |
Larsen, Delmar S. | Photoactivated dynamics in sensory proteins and photocatalysis | dlarsen@ucdavis.edu | 214 Chemistry |
Lebrilla, Carlito B. | Bioanalytical mass spectrometry | cblebrilla@ucdavis.edu | 2465 Chemistry Annex |
Liu, Gang-yu | Nanoscience and nanoengineering, bioanalytical chemistry | gyliu@ucdavis.edu | 322 Chemistry |
Louie, Angelique | Molecular imaging and novel imaging probes | aylouie@ucdavis.edu | 3317 GBSF (Genome Center) |
Mascal, Mark | Organic synthesis, bioenergy research, molecular modeling | mjmascal@ucdavis.edu | 306 Chemistry |
Ng, Cheuk-Yiu | Chemical structures and dynamics by state-to-state spectroscopy | cyng@ucdavis.edu | 5465 Chemistry Annex |
Olson, David E. | Organic Synthesis and Chemical Neuroscience | deolson@ucdavis.edu |
2463 Chemistry Annex |
Osterloh, Frank E. | Inorganic nanomaterials for solar energy conversion | fosterloh@ucdavis.edu | 2467 Chemistry Annex |
Shaw, Jared T. | Synthetic methods, natural products, chemical biology | jtshaw@ucdavis.edu | 326 Chemistry |
Siegel, Justin B. | Computational enzyme design | jbsiegel@ucdavis.edu | 1315 GBSF (Genome Center) |
Tantillo, Dean J. | Theoretical organic chemistry, natural products biosynthesis | djtantillo@ucdavis.edu | 4465 Chemistry Annex |
Toney, Michael D. | Enzyme catalysis, functional genomics, and biofuel cells | mdtoney@ucdavis.edu | 2469 Chemistry Annex |
Velázquez, Jesús M. | Synthesis and characterization of materials at the meso/nanoscale for energy conversion and environmental remediation. | jevelazquez@ucdavis.edu |
5432 Chemistry Annex |
Wang, Lee-Ping | Energy conversion in catalysis and biomolecules; theoretical and computational chemistry | leeping@ucdavis.edu |
163C Chemistry |