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Dr. Robert Dearth
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Department of Biology
ESCNE 2.360
Email: robert.dearth@utrgv.edu
Phone: (956) 665-5223
Fax: (956) 665-3657

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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.

Research

I. Integrative and Organismal Biology

   
                                                         Ecology and Systematics
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
                                                         Physiological Ecology
Christopher Taylor  Aquatic Ecology
Fred Zaidan Herpetology
     
     

II. Cellular and Molecular Biology

     
                                                         Genetics and Molecular Biology
Michael W. Persans  Plant Biochemistry
Daniele Provenzano  Bacterial Genetics & Pathogenesis
Boris Ermolinsky  Gene Expression
Julie Mustard  Molecular Neurobiology
                                                         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
     
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