- Robert Dearth, Ph.D.
- Professor and Chair
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.360
Lab: ESCNE 4.509
Tel: 956-665-3537
- Email:
Faculty and Staff
Faculty
- Kathryn Perez, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.316
Lab: ESCNE 2.428
Research Interests: Systematics, evolutionary biology, taxonomy of mollusks, groundwater snail biodiversity, biology education research
Lab webpage:
Tel: 956-665-7145
- Email:
- Frank Dirrigl, Ph.D.
- Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.344
Lab: ESCNE 2.412
Research interests: Invertebrate and Vertebrate Taphonomy, Environmental Biology, Historical Ecology
Tel: 956-665-8732
- Email:
- Elvira Alanis, M.S.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
- Email:
- Franklin Benton, Ph.D.
- Lecturer I
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.824
Tel: 956-882-5889
- Email:
- Karl Berg, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.832
Lab:
Lab webpage: https://www.utrgv.edu/avianecology/index.htm
Tel: 956-882-5049
- Email:
- Sara Black, Ph.D.
- Lecturer I
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.834
Tel: 956-882-5042
- Email:
- Maria Cadena
- Lecturer I
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
Tel: 956-381-3537
- Email:
- Eloi Camprubi-Casas, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.612
Lab: ESCNE 4.513
Research interests: Origin of life, astrobiology, biosignatures, Ocean Worlds, hydrothermal systems, origins of evolution, early Earth climate and dynamics, planetary chemistry, space exploration.
Lab Webpage: https://eloicamprubi.com
Tel: 956-665-2950
- Email:
- Jorge Canchola, M.D.
- Lecturer II
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.824
Tel: 956-882-4321
- Email:
- Lucia Carreon Martinez, Ph.D.
- Lecturer III
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.712
Tel: 956-882-5197
- Email:
- Amanda Cavazos, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
- Email:
- Manohar Chakrabarti, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.332
Lab:
Tel:
- Email:
- Bradley Christoffersen, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: 1.332
Lab: 1.412
Research interests: We study how water structures ecosystems both above- and below-ground, in the Rio Grande Valley and beyond. We use tools and techniques from plant physiological ecology, ecosystem ecology, plant hydraulics, modeling, and most recently, restoration ecology.
Lab Webpage: https://www.christoffersen-lab.net/
Tel: 956-665-2468- Email:
- Jesus De Leon, Ph.D.
- Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.312
Tel: 956-665-7481
- Email:
- Soraya Delgado, M.S.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.834
- Email:
- Jorge Duran, Ph.D.
- Lecturer I
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.834
Tel:
- Email:
- Ezzat El-Sherif, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.328
Lab: ESCNE 4.514
Research interests: Gene Regulation, Developmental Biology, Computational Biology, Systems Biology
Lab Webpage: El-Sherif Lab
Tel: 956-665-7001
- Email:
- Boris Ermolinsky, Ph.D.
- Lecturer II
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.818
Tel: 956-882-5774
- Email:
- Mohammed Farooqui, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.635
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-3543
- Email:
- Teresa Feria Arroyo, Ph.D.
- Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Success, Diversity & Inclusion
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.635
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-7322
- Email:
- Courtney Galle, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.326
- Email:
- Robert Gilkerson, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.618
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-7838
- Email:
- Ying Jia, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor of Practice
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.822
Lab: BLHSB 2.806A
Tel: 956-882-7320
- Email:
- Angel Jimenez, M.S.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
- Email:
- Megan Keniry, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 3.114
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-7463
- Email:
- Luis Materon, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.334
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-7140
- Email:
- Cody Mon, M.S.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
- Julie Mustard, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.814A
Lab: BLHSB 2.808E
Research interests: Neurobiology, honey bee behavior, learning and memory
Lab Webpage:
Tel: 956-882-5869
- Email:
- Guadalupe Oliva, Ph.D.
- Senior Lecturer
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.804A
Tel: 956-882-5785
- Email:
- Michael Persans, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.629
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-7323
- Email:
- Abigail Pozulp
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.91
- Email:
- Daniele Provenzano, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.125
Lab: BBRHP 1.143
Research interests: Bacterial pathogenesis, virulence factors, host-pathogen and interbacterial interactions, microbial evolution and ecologyTel: 956-882-5045
- Email:
- Kenneth Pruitt, Ph.D.
- Lecturer II
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.324
Tel: 956-665-3545
- Email:
- Saydur Rahman, M.D., Ph.D
- Associate Professor
Campus: Brownsville
Office: LHSB 2.812
Tel:
- Email:
- Jeffrey Robertson, Ph.D.
- Lecturer II
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.91
Tel: 956-882-8206
- Email:
- Nirakar Sahoo, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.132
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-5361
- Email:
- Mark Scally, Ph.D.
- Lecturer I
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.306A
Tel: 956-665-2883
- Email:
- Erin Schuenzel, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.61
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-2229
- Email:
- Pushpa Soti, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.302
Lab: ESCNE 2.444
Tel: 956-665-3131
- Email:
- Christopher Taylor, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 3.128
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-3538
- Email:
- Matthew Terry, Ph.D.
- Associate Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 3.11
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-2064
- Email:
- Mirayda Torres-Avila, Ph.D.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Assistant Director for Post Approval Monitoring Compliance, Office of Research Compliance
Campus: Edinburg
Office: MRIOB 4.357
Tel: 956-665-2093
- Email:
- John Trant, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.34
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-3065
- Email:
- Viviana Trevino
- Lecturer I
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.834
Tel: 956-882-5049
- Email:
- Jorge Trujillo, M.S.
- Lecturer I
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.326
- Email:
- Nicolette Valdez
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
- Email:
- Christopher Vitek, Ph.D.
- Professor
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.616
Lab: ESCNE 2.518
Research interests – Vector ecology and biology, mosquito biology
Lab webpage – www.drmosquito.net
Tel: 956-665-2845
- Email:
- Cindy Wedig, Ph.D.
- Senior Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.308
Tel: 956-665-7025
- Email:
- Tobias Weinrich, Ph.D.
- Lecturer I
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
- Email:
- Frederic Zaidan, Ph.D.
- Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Student Success
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 4.637
Lab:
Tel: 956-665-3414
- Email:
- Ashley Zavala, M.S.
- Adjunct Lecturer
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.326
- Email:
Staff
- Diana Ocanas
- Administrative Assistant II
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.352
Tel: 956-665-3537
- Email:
- Julie Perez
- Administrative Assistant II
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.364
Tel: 956-665-5223
- Email:
- Daisy Garcia
- Administrative Assistant I
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 1.808
Tel: 956-882-8897
- Email:
- Maria Mendez, M.S.
- Program Manager
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.352
Tel: 956-665-5216
- Email:
- Eleazar Saenz
- Lab Coordinator
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 2.368
Tel: 956-665-3547
- Email:
- Liza Vela, M.S.
- Lab Coordinator
Campus: Edinburg
Office: ESCNE 1.368
Tel: 956-665-7935
- Email:
- Sylvia Quintero
- Lab Coordinator
Campus: Brownsville
Office: BLHSB 2.808D
Tel: 956-882-5054
- Email: