Blake Riggs
Blake Riggs is an associate professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Biology at San Francisco State University (SFSU). Dr. Riggs grew up in South Los Angeles and attended UC Santa Cruz (UCSC) as an undergraduate. He was a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) scholar and received a Bachelors degree in Marine Biology, but was fascinated with the idea of cell division. He received both his Master’s degree and PhD in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCSC on research involving role of intracellular membrane transport on cell division. Dr.