Julia Alvarez
Graduated from UC Merced. Julia is making fundamental discoveries on the GPI anchor of Toxoplasma gondii. Former President of RadioBio, and active baking blogger.
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Econ 144: Economics of Immigration
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Lab Alumni
Former Graduate Students Abigail Bolter earned her PhD in Psychology from UC Merced in 2023. She graduated from UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in Psychology, where she worked in Dr. Audun Dahl’s lab studying academic dishonesty. After that, she pursued an M.A. in psychological sciences from UC Merced...
Current Projects
Understanding Parental Involvement Study In collaboration with Dr. Mary Lewis at Oakland University and Dr. Wendy Rote at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, we are examining how parenting shapes adolescents' and young adults' social and emotional development using online and in-person...
Research and C.V.
My current research broadly focuses on immigration policy and its consequences. I am particularly interested on how state and local level immigration policy is affecting the employment, education, fertility and human rights of undocumented immigrants, as well as on the effect of immigration policy...
Leslie Bayers
25+ years teaching in higher ed; 10+ years fostering initiatives to promote accessible, equitable, learner-centered, and evidence-informed teaching, course design, and assessment practices. I design and facilitate workshops, programs, and learning communities and create on-demand resources to...
Teaching
BIO 101 - Biochemistry I This course covers the fundamentals of biochemistry that include structures and functions of proteins, nucleic acids, membranes and carbohydrates; metabolism. Semester: SS2021, SS2022 BIO 182 - Bioinformatics This course covers bioinformatics, structural modeling and...
Papers
University of California Merced 2024 17- Amith, W. D., Chen, V. T., Dutagaci, B., Clustering of RNA Polymerase II C-Terminal Domain Models upon Phosphorylation, J. Phys. Chem. B , 2024, 128, 10385-10396. 16- Gallardo A., Dutagaci B., Binding of Small Molecule Inhibitors to RNA Polymerase-Spt5...
Academic Publications
February 2025 -- Joy-Centered Pedagogy in Higher Education, Routledge Press. (Edited by Eileen Kogl Camfield, includes chapters from many members of this Resilience Research Group.) Open Access link March 2024 -- Grit Is Not It: Reckoning with Resilience on 'Post'-Pandemic FYC (with Eileen Camfield...
Projects
Project 1: Neuronal activity-dependent signaling and gene transcription (Check out our latest publications on this topic in Neuron and Journal of Biological Chemistry) Project 2: Neuronal activity-dependent chromatin remodeling and epigenetic regulation of gene transcription (See our latest...