The Zahler Lab at UCSC
pre-mRNA splicing and small RNA function in mammals, worms and ciliates

The Mammals

• Alan M. Zahler, Ph.D. - email
• Zach Neeb - email
• Matt Ragle - email
• Diana Summers - email
• Athena Lin - email
• Cameron Ferguson - email
• Jed Humphries - email
• Alex Salazar - email

  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. Assistant Professor - email
• Jim Kent, Ph.D. - email
• Massimo Caputi, Ph.D. Associate Professor - email
• Andrew MacRae - email
• Pedro Medina - 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

The Ciliates

Oxytricha trifallax image by Jake Shandling - DAPI staining shows micronuclei and macronuclei

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, Cell 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