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) Lim Ang Cambronne
- Associate 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
Johann K. Eberhart
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Recruiting Students 26-27 Academic Year
Lauren I. R. Ehrlich
- Professor
- L. Leon Campbell, Ph.D. Distinguished Professorship in Microbiology
- Professor of Molecular Biosciences
- Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Oncology, Dell Medical School (courtesy appointment)
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Stephen Carl Ekker
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Andrew Ellington
- Professor
- Department of Molecular Biosciences
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professorship in Biochemistry (Holder)
Lief Fenno
- Assistant Professor
- Neuroscience
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
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
Husniye Kantarci
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Neuroscience
- Neuroscience
Adrian T. Keatinge-Clay
- 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
- Department of Chemistry
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
- Allen J. Bard Center for Electrochemistry
Edward M. Marcotte
- Professor
- Department of Molecular Biosciences
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Andreas Matouschek
- Professor
- Senior Associate Dean for Research and Resource Management
- Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
- Molecular Biosciences
- College of Natural Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay
- Professor
- Division of Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Hong Qiao
- Associate Professor
- Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellowship Fund
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Elif Sarinay Cenik
- Assistant Professor
- Genetics, Developmental Biology, Molecular Biology, Computational Biology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
We welcome inquiries from motivated graduate students and from first and second year undergraduates interested in gaining research experience and pursuing PhD or other research intensive careers. Interested students should email a brief description of their interests, goals, and availability.
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
Maryam Tilton
- Assistant Professor
- Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
- 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
Becca Young
- Assistant Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Freshman Research Initiative