Dr. Wallace F. Marshall is Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Marshall's research focuses on understanding how the complex geometry of cells arises from the interplay of molecular and physical mechanisms, as well as how cell geometry relates to cell function. His lab has a particular interest in the mechanisms that control the size of organelles. Questions of cell geometry are inherently quantitative, and Dr. Marshall's group employs an integrated combination of quantitative microscopy, image analysis, and computational modeling, together with genetic and biochemical methods.

Dr. Marshall received Bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biochemistry at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the University of California San Francisco. After postdoctoral training at Yale University in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology department, he returned to UCSF in 2003 to start his faculty position. He has been an organizer of the Cold Spring Harbor Computational Cell Biology conferences for the past three years and is currently co-director of the Physiology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.