Faculty have a broad diversity of research interests including topics such as signal transduction, membrane traffic, cell polarity and motility, regulation of gene expression, cell-cell interactions, specification of cell identity, spatial patterning of developing embryos and evolution of developmental mechanisms. There is also a strong commitment to imaging techniques including scanning laser confocal microscopy, in vivo imaging of developmental processes, measurements of intracellular ion concentrations and electron microscopy.

Aaron Baker
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Brian Belardi
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
- Chemistry
Amy Brock
- Associate Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Xiaolu (Lulu) Cambronne
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Can Cenik
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Looking for highly motivated and ambitious Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows to join the team.

Daniel J. Dickinson
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
John Digiovanni
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jennifer Donegan
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year

Johann K. Eberhart
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Stephen Carl Ekker
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Andrew Ellington
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professorship in Biochemistry (Holder)

Janice A. Fischer
- Professor
- Director, Biology Instructional Office
- Molecular Biosciences
- Biology Instructional Office
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Ernst-Ludwig Florin
- Associate Professor
- Physics
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Vernita Gordon
- Professor
- Physics
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Elizabeth B. Gleeson Professorship in Plan II (Fellow)
Trull Centennial Professorship in Physics #1 (Fellow)

Ryan S. Gray
- Associate Professor
- Nutritional Sciences
- Human Ecology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jeffrey M. Gross
- Professor
- Department Chair
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellow

Juan Guan
- Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology & Medicinal Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Enamul Huq
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Brent Iverson
- Professor
- Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Professor
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Distinguished Teaching Professor
The University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers Fellow

Christopher Jolly
- Associate Professor
- Nutritional Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Thomas Juenger
- Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Texas Field Station Network
- Biodiversity Center
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jonghwan Kim
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

John Kuo
- Professor of Neurosurgery
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jaime Lopez-Mosqueda
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Yi Lu
- Professor
- Richard J. V. Johnson - Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
- Allen J. Bard Center for Electrochemistry
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year

Edward M. Marcotte
- Professor
- Mr. and Mrs. Corbin J. Robertson, Sr. Regents Chair in Molecular Biology #1
- Affiliated Faculty, Oden Institute
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Andreas Matouschek
- Professor
- Associate Dean for Research and Facilities
- Molecular Biosciences
- College of Natural Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay
- Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicolog
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year

Hong Qiao
- Associate Professor
- Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellowship Fund
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Elif Sarinay Cenik
- Assistant Professor
- Computational Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Eric Senning
- Assistant Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jeanne Stachowiak
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

David S. Stein
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Laura Suggs
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Keiko Torii
- Professor
- Johnson & Johnson Centennial Chair in Plant Cell Biology
- Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Carla Van Den Berg
- Associate Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Steven A. Vokes
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
John B. Wallingford
- Professor
- Mr. and Mrs. Robert P. Doherty, Jr. Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Arielle Woznica
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs