Who We Are

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  • R. Scott Lokey, PhD
    Faculty Director
    Lokey Lab website
    Profile
  • Vicki Auerbuch Stone, PhD
    Associate Faculty Director
    Auerbuch-Stone Lab website
  • Beverley M. Rabbitts, PhD
    Director of Operations
    Profile
  • Matylda Zietek, MSc
    Screening Specialist for Lokey & Yildiz labs
    Profile
  • Current CSC undergrad interns:
    Kenny, Stephanie, Aria, Lucy, Georgina, Marissa

Scott and Beverley


Our Affiliation:
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Chemical Screening Center
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Division of Physical and Biological Sciences
University of California, Santa Cruz


People affiliated with the CSC, past and present:

Listed alphabetically.

Internal Advisory Committee:

  • Doug Kellogg
    Professor in Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
  • Paul Koch
    Dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences
  • Scott Lokey
    Professor in Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
    (non-voting)
  • John MacMillan
    Professor in Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
    Associate Vice Chancellor of Research
    (non-voting)
  • Glenn Millhauser
    Chair of the Committee
    Professor in Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
  • Karen Ottemann
    Professor in Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology
  • Seth Rubin
    Professor in Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

External Advisory Board:

  • Michelle R. Arkin
    UCSF Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
    Co-Director of the Small Molecule Discovery Center
  • Roger G. Linington
    Simon Fraser University Professor of Chemistry
    PI for Center for High Content Functional Annotation of Natural Products
    Canada Research Chair in High-Throughput Screening and Natural Products Discovery
  • Ian Pass
    Sanford Burnham Prebys Center for Chemical Genomics Director of High-Throughput Screening
    Team Lead of Chemical Biology
  • Joshua Schwochert
    Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Unnatural Products
  • Mary G. West
    UC Berkeley Facility Director of Shared Stem Cell Facility and High-Throughput Screening Facility

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a logo for the NMR core facility featuring a banana slug dressed in lab coat and goggles standing by an NMR instrumentWe interact with the other five core facilities hosted by our department: cryoEM (RRID:SCR_021755), mass spec, NMR, X-ray, EPR, and a macromolecular structure and function core (for liquid handling and crystal maker, circular dichroism, isothermal titration calorimetry, Bio-Layer Interferometry, and X-ray crystallography).

Watch a slide show about 5 of the core facilities that the Chemistry department offers.

 

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We interact with the CRISPR Core (RRID:SCR_021207) and Microscopy Facility (RRID:SCR_021135) hosted by the MCD department. Your drug screen may benefit from creation of knockout cell lines. And if you see an interesting phenotype in your cells with our screening microscopes, you can look at them with more color channel flexibility and potentially higher resolution (but lower throughput) using their light microscopes. They also offer Transmission Electron Microscopy for a finer detailed look at the cells.

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The Banana Slug Genomics Center (RRID:SCR_021360) provides bioinformatics support primarily for sequencing data, but can also support analysis of data collected at the CSC! We interact with other core facilities at the Baskin School of Engineering, including the Flow Cytometry Facility  (RRID:SCR_021149) and  cell culture facilities  (RRID:SCR_021353). We  may also interact  with other  Engineering  facilities,  including  the W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics,  a logo for the genomics center featuring two yellow slugs that are positioned to suggest a DNA helix



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  • Elizabeth Jones, College of Botanical Healing Arts
  • Nevan Krogan, UCSF
  • Roger Linington, Simon Fraser University
  • Julian Sage, Stanford
  • Nathan Shapiro, California State University East Bay
  • Frederick Valeriote, Josephine Ford Cancer Institute
  • Pieter Dorrestein, UCSD
  • Richard Payne, University of Sydney
  • Robert St Onge, Stanford
  • Taro Amagata, San Francisco State University

Listed alphabetically:

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We are proudly part of a collection of many diverse core facilities on the UCSC campus. In addition to the cores listed in the above departments, we have the following related core facilities:

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  • Shelby Backman
  • Julian Blaseio
  • Walter Bray
  • Jennifer Burke
  • Richard Cathey
  • Sasha Curtis
  • Julia Davies
  • Nadine Gassner
  • Britney Hernandez
  • Jake Kosarchuk
  • Cayla McEwen
  • Kirsten McGee
  • Sean Nisam
  • Alex Ragland
  • Elizabeth Rocha
  • Jordan Ruybal
  • Rochelle Saxton
  • Joshua Schwochert
  • Jordan Titus

Our sponsors:

We receive ongoing support from the Santa Cruz branch of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and the UCSC Physical and Biological Sciences Division, which supplements user fees to keep our staff paid and our instruments running.

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