Faculty Research
The UTRGV Department of Biology offers research in ecology and systematics, physiological ecology, remote sensing, genetics and molecular biology, microbiology, and organismal and cellular physiology.
I. Integrative and Organismal Biology |
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| Ecology and Systematics | ||
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| Christopher Vitek | Ecology and Medical Entomology | |
| Teresa Patricia Feria | Landscape Ecology | |
| Matthew Terry | Developmental Entomology | |
| Robert K. Dearth | Mammalian Physiology | |
| Karl Berg | Behavioral Ecology | |
| Kathryn Perez | Ecology and Systematics | |
| Bradley Christofferson | Plant Physiological Ecology | |
| Rupesh Kariyat | Ecology and Plant-Insect Interactions | |
| Physiological Ecology | ||
| Christopher Taylor | Aquatic Ecology | |
| Fred Zaidan | Herpetology, Energetics | |
II. Cellular and Molecular Biology |
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| Genetics and Molecular Biology | ||
| Michael W. Persans | Plant Biochemistry | |
| Daniele Provenzano | Bacterial Genetics & Pathogenesis | |
| Boris Ermolinsky | Gene Expression | |
| Julie Mustard | Molecular Neurobiology | |
| John Trant | Molecular Endocrinology | |
| Microbiology | ||
| Luis A. Materón | Nitrogen Fixation, Food Microbiology | |
| Erin Schuenzel | Microbial Genetics | |
| Organismal and Cellular Physiology | ||
| Mohammed Farooqui | Toxicology | |
| Robert Gilkerson | Cellular Physiology | |
| Megan Keniry | Cell Biology | |