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.
![Profile image of Seema Agarwala](https://directory.cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2022-06/Agarwala-1-1.jpg)
Seema Agarwala
- Associate Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Nigel Atkinson
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Adela Ben-yakar
- Professor
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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George Bittner
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year
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Xiaolu (Lulu) Cambronne
- Assistant Professor
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Frances Champagne
- Professor of Psychology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Michael Drew
- Professor
- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education
- Neuroscience
- College of Natural Sciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
![Profile image of Jennifer Donegan](https://directory.cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2024-08/Donegan.jpg)
Jennifer Donegan
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year
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Andrew Ellington
- Professor
- Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Regents Chair in Molecular Biology
- Wilson M. and Kathryn Fraser Research Professorship in Biochemistry
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Nace Golding
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year
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Andrea Gore
- Professor of Pharmacology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year
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Jeffrey M. Gross
- Professor
- Department Chair
- Molecular Biosciences
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Lorene Morrow Kelley Endowed Faculty Fellow
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Johann (Hans) Hofmann
- Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Texas Field Station Network
- Biodiversity Center
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Ken Hsu
- Associate Professor
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Stephen F. and Fay Evans Martin Endowed Professorship in Chemistry (Fellow)
![Profile image of Amy Lee](https://directory.cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2024-08/Lee_full.jpg)
Amy Lee
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year
![Profile image of Yi Lu](https://directory.cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/2025-01/Yi%20Lu%20head%20shot.jpg)
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
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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
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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
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S.J. Mihic
- Associate Professor
- Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Hitoshi Morikawa
- Associate Professor
- M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Professorships in Molecular Biology
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Hiroshi Nishiyama
- Associate Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Steven Phelps
- Professor
- Integrative Biology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year
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Jonathan Pierce
- Associate Professor
- Neuroscience
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Nicholas Priebe
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Jason Shear
- Professor
- Chemistry
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Huiliang Wang
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Harold Zakon
- Professor
- Neuroscience
- Integrative Biology
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
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Boris Zemelman
- Associate Professor
- Neuroscience
- Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Graduate Programs
Accepting graduate students 25-26 academic year