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
Ethel Bayer-Santos
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Telephone Number:(512) 471-0966
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Xiaolu (Lulu) Lim Ang Cambronne
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Join us at the 2026 NAD Metabolism and Signaling FASEB Scientific Research Conference, June 7-11 2026 Melbourne, FL. https://events.faseb.org/event/NAD-Metabolism-Signaling/summary
Telephone Number:512-232-1928
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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
- 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. 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
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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)
Lief Fenno
- Assistant Professor
- Neuroscience
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
- 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
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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
Telephone Number:512-471-5842
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Yi Lu
- Professor
- Richard J. V. Johnson - Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
- Allen J. Bard Center for Electrochemistry
Recruiting Students 26-27 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
- Senior Associate Dean for Research and Resource Management
- 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
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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 M. 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
- LaMontagne Center
Elif Sarinay Cenik
- Assistant Professor
- Computational Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Telephone Number:617 3197910
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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
Telephone Number:512-232-5987 (Lab)
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Karen Marie Vasquez
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Arielle Woznica
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs