Affiliation: University of California Santa Barbara

Dr. Joel Rothman received a BS in Biochemistry from UC Davis and earned his PhD from University of Oregon. He was a Helen Hay Whitney and EMBO fellow at MRC, Cambridge and faculty member in Biochemistry at University of Wisconsin, Madison. He then joined MCD Biology at UCSB, where he served as Chair and held a partial faculty appointment at University of Auckland. He was a Searle Scholar and Shaw Scientist and is currently Distinguished Professor and Wilcox Family Chair in Biotechnology. He served as co-director of the Woods Hole MBL Embryology course, the editorial boards of Current Biology, Apoptosis, and Developmental Biology, Chair of the NIH MGB Study Section, and Director of the UCSB HHMI Program. He is currently Director of the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, founding Director of the Center for Aging and Longevity Studies, and co-director of the UCSB NIH MARC Program.