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