James A. Wohlschlegel

James Wohlschlegel, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Chemistry at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.  He attended Texas A&M University in College Station, TX as an undergraduate and received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry in 1997.  He then performed his graduate training at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Anindya Dutta.  His thesis work focused on understanding the regulation of DNA replication complex assembly at origins of DNA replication at the onset of S-phase and he ultimately received his Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry in 2002.  His postdoctoral training was performed at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA jointly in the laboratories of John Yates and Steven Reed where he focused on developing new proteomic mass spectrometry-based methods for characterizing biological pathways regulated by the ubiquitin family of post-translational modifications.  In 2007, he arrived at UCLA in the Department of Biological Chemistry where he has built a research program that utilizes a combination of proteomic and biochemical strategies to study the functions of novel enzymes in the ubiquitin pathway.