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July Update: The McCloskey Lab has been awarded a grant from the Cancer Reserach Coordinating Committee (CRCC) to build an "Integrated Model of Cancer, Vasculature, and Immune System". April Update: Jessalyn Arteta recently presented her research at the NSF-CREST funded end-of-year CCBM symposium...

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As the state of California leads the nation in the adoption of solar energy and seeks to decarbonize its grid by 2045, a key question is "What role(s) will long-duration storage play and what price will be needed for a technology to compete with the other options?" Answering that question requires...

If you are interested in joining the UC Merced Department of Public Health and/or working with me as a PhD student, please reach out and check out the Department's website for prospective students. Current PhD Students: Valerie Martinez (2019-) Valerie Martinez joined the doctoral program in the UC...

Courses taught by Dr. Martin Hagger: Undergraduate Courses: PSY-190-2/3: Science of Behavior Change Many of the problems observed in today’s society can be linked, directly or indirectly, to human behavior. Governments, organizations, and professionals increasingly recognize the value of developing...

Lab Director: Dr. Martin Hagger Lab Manager: Susette Moyers Graduate Students: Kaylyn McAnally Lauren McKinley Jessica Balla Thais Benoit Zoe Griffith Danielle Simpson Undergraduate Research Assistants: Michael Vang Kelsey Severson Carolina Hernandez Mercedes Pena Katie Roseman Priya Sandhu Delainey...

For a more updated list of research interests and publications, please visit my google scholar profile Biological Physics: Cell Mechanics/Mechanobiology. Current research is revealing that mechanical forces are important to biology in a variety of ways: think of muscles contracting, or tissues being...

Shilpa Khatri Assistant Professor Applied Mathematics skhatri3@ucmerced.edu Lab: SE1 235 Office: ACS 367 Shayna Bennett Graduate Student Applied Mathematics sbennett3@ucmerced.edu ACS 358C Adam Binswanger Graduate Student Applied Mathematics abinswanger@ucmerced.edu ACS 342B Sarah Downs Graduate...

RNA Polymerase Dynamics and Function RNA polymerase synthesizes RNA during transcription, which is a highly complex process with many open questions on its mechanism remain to be answered. We are particularly interested in dynamics of RNA polymerase at the active site as well as at the larger scale...