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
- Jessie MNG Lopez -
email
- Ken Osterhoudt -
email
- Kenna Sarka -
email
- Sidney Owen -
email
- Amy Leslie -
email
- Daniel Walker -
email
- Andrea Ramirez -
email
Lab Alumni
- Zachary T. Neeb, Ph.D. -
email
- J. Matthew Ragle, Ph.D. -
email
- 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. Director, UCSC Genome Browser -
email
- Massimo Caputi, Ph.D. Assoc. Professor -
email
- Samira Yitiz -
email
- Lucero Rogel -
email
- Samantha Assaf -
email
- Diana Summers -
email
- Athena Lin -
email
- Andrew MacRae -
email
- Chandra Kilburn, Ph.D. -
email
- Adrian Ray, Ph.D.
- Oliver Fregoso, Ph.D., Assistant Professor -
email
- Armando Villalta, Ph.D., Assistant Professor -
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
- 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).
- Wormbase
C. elegans Database
- 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