UTSA Biology Tenure Faculty

Dr. Deborah Armstrong Professor of Neurophysiology Neurophysiology; hippocampal slice, neurotoxicology, calcium channels	Dr. Paul Mueller Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology Cell cycle regulation, developmental biology
Dr. Bernard Arulanandam Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Cellular immunology, mucosal immunity	Dr. Christopher Navara Associate Professor of Reproductive & Develpmental Molecular Biology
Dr. Edwin Barea-Rodriguez Associate Professor of Neurobiology Neurobiology; long-term potentiation	Dr. Carlos Paladini Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Dopamine neuron physiology and addiction
Dr. James Bower Professor of Neurophysiology Neurocomputation; structure and function in neural circuits	Dr. George Perry Dean and Professor of Biology Formation and physiological consequences of the cytopathology of Alzheimer disease
Dr. Astrid Cardona Assistant Professor Neuroimmunology and fractalkine receptor biology	Dr. Clyde Phelix Associate Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology Anatomy; molecular neurobiology of cardiovascular disease
Dr. J. Aaron Cassill Associate Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology Cell/molecular biology; regulation of signal transduction cascades	Dr. Rama Ratnam Assistant Professor of Systems & Computational Neuroscience Sensory information processing; Acoustic communication
Dr. James Chambers Professor of Biochemistry Biochemistry	Dr. Robert Renthal Professor of Biochemistry Membranes, protein biochemistry, sensory receptors
Dr. G. Jilani Chaudry Assistant Professor of Molecular & Cellular Biology Mammalian cell intoxication by anthrax toxin	Dr. Fidel Santamaria Assistant Professor of Computation and Neural Systems Biophysical substrates of neuronal dendritic computation
Dr. Garry Cole Professor of Biology Mechanisms of fungal virulence and host immunity	Dr. Stephen Saville Assistant Professor of Genetics Genetics
Dr. Brian Derrick Professor of Neurobiology Neurobiology; cellular/molecular mechanisms of potentiation/depression	Dr. David Senseman Associate Professor of Biology Neurophysiology; optical imaging, neural networks
Dr. Jurgen Engelberth Assistant Professor of Plant Biochemistry Plant biochemistry	Dr. Janakiram Seshu Assistant Professor of Microbiology Genetic analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi lp54 loci
Dr. Thomas Forsthuber Professor of Immunology Cellular immunology, T cell immunity, autoimmune diseases	Dr. Valerie Sponsel Associate Professor of Plant Physiology Regulation of plant growth and development by plant hormones
Dr. Gary Gaufo Assistant Professor of Biology Molecular and cellular approaches to neural development	Dr. Garry Sunter Associate Professor of Plant Pathology DNA replication and plant-pathogen interactions
Dr. Matthew Gdovin Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology Developmental aspects of the neural control of respiration	Dr. Kelly Jo Suter Assistant Professor of Computational Biology Sexual reproduction; GnRH "pulse" generator
Dr. M. Neal Guentzel Professor of Microbiology Microbiology; enteric infections, bioremediation	Dr. Judy Teale Professor of Immunology Immunoparasitology, neuroimmunology and immune response to Francisella tularensis
Dr. Luis Haro Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology Cell/molecular biology; endocrinology, growth hormone, receptors	Dr. Todd Troyer Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Neural and Behavioral Dynamics
Dr. Hans Heidner Professor of Microbiology Virology; genetics of alphavirus replication, virus/host cell interactions	Dr. Andrew Tsin Professor of Biochemistry and Physiology Biochemistry and cell/molecular biology of eye
Dr. David Jaffe Professor of Neurobiology Hippocampal neuron synaptic integration and plasticity	Dr. Oscar Van Auken Professor of Physiological Plant Ecology Plant ecology, species interactions, community composition and structure, rare species
Dr. Karl Klose Professor of Microbiology Bacterial pathogenesis	Dr. Yufeng Wang Associate Professor of Bioinformatics Bioinformatics
Dr. Richard LeBaron Associate Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology Cell/molecular biology; tissue engineering, extracellular matrix biology	Dr. Matthew Wayner Professor Emeritus of Neurobiology Hypothalamus-hippocampal interactions; learning and memory
Dr. Jose Lopez-Ribot Professor of Microbiology Study of the opportunistic pathogenic fungus Candida albicans	Dr. Tao Wei Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and Microbiology War-wound bacterial biofilm and antimicrobial resistance
Dr. Martha Lundell Associate Professor of Molecular Genetics Specification of cell fate in the central nervous system	Dr. Nicole Wicha Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Cognitive neuroscience; human brain imaging and cognition
Dr. Andrew Martinez Professor of Genetics Genetics; cancer biology, cell-cell interactions	Dr. Charles Wilson Professor of Neurobiology Neurophysiology and computation in the basal ganglia
Dr. Joe Martinez, Jr. Professor of Neurobiology Neuroscience; neurobiology of learning and memory	Dr. Floyd Wormley Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunology Study of protective immune responses against Cryptococcus neoformans infections
Dr. John McCarrey Professor of Genetics Cellular biology; cellular development and differentiation

 

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