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2024-2025 Graduate Catalog (Catalog goes into effect at the start of the Fall 2024 semester) 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog (Catalog goes into effect at the start of the Fall 2024 semester)

Department of Biology and Biochemistry


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Molly Albecker. Assistant Professor. Ph.D, East Carolina University

Dinler Amaral Atunes. Assistant Professor. B.Sc., M.S and Ph.D, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Brazil

Heidi Appel. Professor and Dean of Honors College. Ph.D, Ph.D. and M.S., University of Michigan

Ricardo Azevedo.  Professor.  B.Sc., University of Lisbon, Portugal; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh, U.K.

Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Baylor University; Ph.D., University of Houston.

James Briggs.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Faculty Affairs, B.S., University of Texas at El Paso; Ph.D., Purdue University.

Sang-Hyuk Chung.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S. and M.S., Korea University, Korea; Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine.

Blaine J. Cole.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Kansas; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Kerri Crawford.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Tennessee; Ph.D., Rice University.

Jacob Daane. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Brigitte Dauwalder.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  Ph.D., University of Zürich, Switzerland.

Stuart E. Dryer.  Moores Professor. B.A., University of Iowa; M.S., University of Arizona; Ph.D., St. Louis University.

Qin Feng.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S./M.S., East China Normal University; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Robert Fox.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Pittsburgh; Ph.D., Yale University.

Tony Frankino.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  Ph.D., Indiana University.

Masaya Fujita.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Hiroshima University, Japan; Ph.D., Osaka University, Japan.

Dan Graur.  Moores Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.Sc., M.Sc. Tel Aviv University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Houston.

Preethi Gunaratne.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Colombo, Sri Lanka; M.S. and Ph.D., Cornell University.

Jan-Åke Gustafsson.  Robert A. Welch Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  M.D. and Ph.D., Karolinska Institute, Sweden.

Erin Kelleher.  Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of Virginia; Ph.D., University of Arizona.

Seema Khurana.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.Sc. and M.Sc., Panjab University, India; Ph.D., Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, India.

Arne Lekven. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. Ph.D., University of California-Los Angeles.

Chin-Yo Lin.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Brigham Young University; Ph.D., Harvard University.

Yu Liu.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  M.D., Xian Jiaotong University; Ph.D., University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

Frank McKeon. Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Director of Somatic Stem Cell Center, and CPRIT Established Investigator in Cancer Research. Ph.D., University of California-San Francisco.

Richard Meisel. Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.A., Cornell University; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University.

Martin A. Nuñez. Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., University of Comahue, Argentina; Ph.D., University of Tennessee.

Weiyi Peng. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. M.D., Tongji Medical University, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine.

Steven Pennings. Moores Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Vice Chair of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California.

Michael A. Rea.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Indiana State University; Ph.D., Indiana State University.

Amy K. Sater.  Professor and Chair of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., University of California, Santa Cruz; M.S., Stanford University; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin.

Robert Schwartz. Cullen Distinguished Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Brooklyn College; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.

Mehmet Sen. Assistant Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. B.S., Bogazici University (Robert College), Istanbul, Turkey; Ph.D., University of Houston.

Adam Stuckert.  Assistant Professor.  Ph.D., East Carolina University.

Quentin Vicens.  Assistant Professor.  Ph.D., University of Strasbourg.

Yuhong Wang.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Peking University, China; Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University.

Margaret Warner.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry. Ph.D., McGill University, Canada.

Dan E. Wells.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.  B.A., M.A., California State University; Ph.D., Indiana University, Bloomington.

William R. Widger.  Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.A., S.U.C. at Oneowta; Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany.

Diane C. Wiernasz.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University.

Hye-Jeong Yeo.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Seoul National University, Korea; M.S., Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I), France; Ph.D., Université Montpellier II, France.

Ping Yi.  Assistant Professor.  Ph.D., University of Rochester.

Xiaoliu Shaun Zhang.  M.D. Anderson Professor of Biology and Biochemistry and Director, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling. M.B., Wuhan Medical College, Wuhan, China; M.D., Tongi Medical University, Wuhan, China; Ph.D., Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Jokubas Ziburkus.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Hillsdale College; Ph.D., Louisiana State University Health Science Center.

Rebecca Zufall.  Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry.  B.S., Cornell University; Ph.D., Duke University.