Our faculty have wide-ranging research interests that touch on most of the present frontiers in neuroscience, including specification of neuronal cell fates, integration of information by synapses and dendrites, alterations in neuronal circuits as a consequence of experience, drug and alcohol addiction, sensory processing, transmitter release, repair of neuronal injuries, hormones and behavior, learning and memory and gene expression.
Seema Agarwala
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Nigel Atkinson
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Adela Ben-yakar
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
George Bittner
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
Xiaolu (Lulu) Lim Ang Cambronne
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Frances Champagne
- Professor of Psychology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Michael Drew
- Professor
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
- Neuroscience
- College of Natural Sciences
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
Jennifer Donegan
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
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
Laura Fonken
- Associate Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
Nace Golding
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
Andrea Gore
- Professor of Pharmacology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Jeffrey M. Gross
- Professor
- Department Chair
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellow
Johann (Hans) Hofmann
- Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Texas Field Station Network
- Biodiversity Center
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
Ken Hsu
- Associate Professor
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Stephen F. and Fay Evans Martin Endowed Professorship in Chemistry (Fellow)
Husniye Kantarci
- Assistant Professor
- Neuroscience
Amy Lee
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
Yi Lu
- Professor
- Richard J. V. Johnson - Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
- Allen J. Bard Center for Electrochemistry
Intending to Recruit 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
William Matsui
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Robert Messing
- Professor
- Department Chair
- Director, Waggoner Center for Alcohol & Addiction Research
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Chair in Molecular Biology
Professor of Neurology
S.J. Mihic
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Hitoshi Morikawa
- Associate Professor
- M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Hiroshi Nishiyama
- Associate Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Steven Phelps
- Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Jonathan Pierce
- Professor
- Neuroscience
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year
Nicholas Priebe
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Jason Shear
- Emeritus
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Huiliang Wang
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Becca Young
- Assistant Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Freshman Research Initiative
Harold Zakon
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Integrative Biology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Boris Zemelman
- Associate Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Intending to Recruit Students 26-27 Academic Year