个人简介

John Colicelli grew up in New Jersey and obtained his undergraduate chemistry degree from Rutgers University in 1979. After two years of service as a teacher in the Peace Corp, Dr. Colicelli studied retrovirus replication with Dr. Stephen Goff at Columbia University and received his biochemistry PhD in 1986. As a post-doctoral researcher with Dr. Michael Wigler at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Dr. Colicelli investigated signal transduction by RAS and other G proteins. In 1990 he joined the UCLA Biological Chemistry Department where he is now a Professor and Vice Chair. In addition to his research program, Dr. Colicelli teaches cell biology to undergraduate, graduate and medical students. He also contributes to administrative functions at the department, medical school and university levels.