The track includes diverse fields of biology ranging from cellular processes including DNA recombination, repair, transcription, splicing, translation, genomics, gene silencing, chromatin modifications, epigenetic mechanisms, RNA interference, microRNA regulation, and control of the cell-division cycle, to molecular evolution as well as human cancers and other diseases. Faculty affiliated with this track represent a broad range of research interests and experimental systems from phage, virus and bacteria to yeast, plants, flies to mice and humans

Hal S Alper
- Professor of Chemical Engineering
- Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering #1
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jeffrey E. Barrick
- Professor
- Benjamin Clayton Centennial Professor in Biochemistry
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Ethel Bayer-Santos
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- 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.

Zengjian Jeffrey Chen
- Professor
- D.J. Sibley Centennial Professor in Plant Molecular Genetics
- Molecular Biosciences
- Integrative Biology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Maria Croyle
- Professor
- Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery
- Glaxo Wellcome Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Bryan W. Davies
- Professor
- Lorene Morrow Kelley Professorship in Microbiology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jaquelin P. Dudley
- Professor
- Associate Director, LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease
- Professor of Oncology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Lauren I. Ehrlich
- Professor
- Associate Professor of Oncology
- Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellowship Fund
- L. Leon Campbell, Ph.D. Distinguished Professorship in Microbiology
- 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)

George Georgiou
- Professor
- Dula D. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering #2
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

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

Arbel Harpak
- Assistant Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Rasika M. Harshey
- Professor
- Mary M. Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair in Microbiology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Jon M. Huibregtse
- Professor
- Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Arnold Sr. Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Vishwanath Iyer
- Professor
- Professor of Oncology, Dell Medical School
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Makkuni Jayaram
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Arlen W. Johnson
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Ken Keiler
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Benjamin Keith Keitz
- Associate Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Nayun Kim
- Associate Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Alan Lambowitz
- Professor
- Professor of Oncology
- Mr. and Mrs. A. Frank Smith, Jr. Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biosciences
- 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

Mikhail Matz
- Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Biodiversity Center
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Despoina Mavridou
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Ian J. Molineux
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Nancy Moran
- Professor
- Warren J. and Viola Mae Raymer Chair
- Integrative Biology
- Biodiversity Center
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Vagheesh Narasimhan
- Assistant Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Statistics and Data Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Howard Ochman
- Professor
- Joseph J. & Jeanne M. Lagowski Regents Professorship in Molecular Bioscience
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Tanya T. Paull
- Professor
- Burl G. and Lorene L. Rogers Chair in Human Health
- Professor of Oncology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Shelley M. Payne
- Professor
- Director, LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease
- Marie Betzner Morrow Centennial Chair
- Distinguished Teaching Professor
- 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

Scott W. Stevens
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

Christopher S. Sullivan
- Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- 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
Karen Marie Vasquez
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs

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