The Zahler Lab at UCSC
pre-mRNA splicing and micro RNA function in mammals and worms

The Mammals

• Alan M. Zahler, Ph.D. - email
• Zach Neeb - email
• Matt Ragle - email
• Jordan Edberg - email
• Andrew MacRae - email
• Diana Summers - email
• Athena Lin - email
• Jake Shandling - email

  Recent Lab Alumni

• Nicole Lambert, Ph.D. - email
• Sergio Barberan, Ph.D. - email
• Jennifer Kabat, Ph.D. - email
• MaryAnn Dassah, Ph.D. - email
• Sam Guoping Gu, Ph.D. - email
• Jim Kent, Ph.D. - email
• Massimo Caputi, Ph.D. Associate Professor - email
• Hiram Clawson - email
• Pedro Medina - email
• Valerie Hunt - email
• Jeffrey Estella - email
• Mustapha Ali - email
• Chandra Kilburn, Ph.D. - email
• Oliver Fregoso, Ph.D. - email
• Armando Villalta, Ph.D. - email

The Worms

C. elegans expressing green fluorescent protein alternative splicing reporter constructs

Useful Links

• Cancer Cell Biology - Bio114
• UCSC Genome Browser - Our internationally-recognized homegrown browser for Human, Chimp, Mouse, Rat, Fugu, C. elegans, C. briggsae, C. remanei, etc., etc. genomes
• PubMed - when you need to find a scientific abstract fast
• UCSC Science Library's On-line Journal Access from Off-Campus
• BLAST Searching at NCBI - (be warned, one homolog is never enough).
• Splice Site Prediction By Neural Net
• Wormbase C. elegans Database
• Institute for Scientific Information - Web of Science
• UCSC MCD Graduate Program - high quality molecular bio in the redwoods.

How to Reach Us

Zahler Lab
Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
and Center for Molecular Biology of RNA
Sinsheimer Labs
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
(831) 459-5127

Professor Zahler's Office

(831) 459-5131

Background image is an electron micrograph of the tandemly linked s36 and s38 chorion genes of Drosophila melanogaster showing RNP assembly on nascent transcripts; image courtesy of Yvonne Osheim, Oscar Miller Jr. and Ann L. Beyer