Faculty
Faculty members associated with the OCS program are from the UCSF School of Dentistry as well as many departments in the UCSF School of Medicine. This ensures a program curriculum that spans a range of disciplines. See a list of faculty and their research areas.
Students
Students Research Topics
| OCS-PhD Trainee | Research Title | PI |
| Margot Bacino | Developing and Delivering Precision Periodontal Antimicrobial Treatments | Suan Lynch |
| Chris Bravo | Sex specific oral microbiome in periodontal disease are associated with bacterial sex hormone metabolism | Susan Lynch |
| Jasmine Garcia | The role of the microbiota in intestinal regeneration | Ophir Klein |
| Rozana Shemirani | The molecular mechanism of amelogenin exon4 alternative splicing and its association to amelogenesis imperfecta | Yukiko Nakano |
| Jake Ngu | SLC24A4 (NCKX4) in enamel maturation, from expression to etiology | Yan Zhang |
| Jessisa Pacheco | Understanding the role of PUM2 during cranial neural crest development | Erica Hutchins |
| Andreana Gomez | Understanding the genetic and non-genetic modifiers that influence craniofacial developmental outcomes when fetal cholesterol biosynthesis is impaired. | Ralph Marcucio |
| Liam Lam | Xiaobing Yu | |
| Jarvan Jian | Untangling the immune-epithelial interactions in premalignant oral lesions and their progression to oral squamous cell carcinoma | Flora Momen Heravi |
| Harrison Baker | Ken Nakamura | |
| OCS-DDS/PhD Trainee | Research Title | PI |
| Jessi Cook | Uncovering cellular diversity in the oral mucosal mesenchyme | Ophir Klein |
| Ameera S. Haque | Unraveling the Cellular Basis of Murine Incisor Asymmetry | Ophir Klein |
| Tony Qu | Establishing the roles of Calcineurin/NFAT calcium signaling in early craniofacial morphogenesis | Licia Seralli |
| David Sung | Understanding the role of mechanical forces in ameloblast development | Ophir Klein |
| Karin Shamardani | Cellular mechanisms of palatal shelf outgrowth | Jeff Bush |
| Luke Lucid | The Molecular Basis of Nasal Pit Morphogenesis and its Role in Upper Lip Formation | Jeff Bush |
| Minyoung Kim | Investigating the role of ELAVL1 in cranial neural crest and trigeminal ganglia development | Erica Hutchins |
| Hannah Takasuka | (Primary) Characterizing Preterm Birth with Electronic Health Record Diagnoses and Clinical Notes (Secondary) Relationships between Food Assistance and Oral Health | Tony Capra |
| Hannah Herzog | The Effect of Sex and the Gut Microbiome on Heterotopic Ossification | Ed Hsiao Christopher Hernandez |
| Belmaliz Cardona Rodriguez | Post-transcriptional regulation of CD226 in autoimmune processes | Mark Ansel |
| Ethan Dinh | Secretory Calcium-binding Phosphoprotein Proline-Glutamine (Q) rich 1 (SCPPPQ1) as a site-level marker of periodontal disease | Yan Zhang |