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Potential Research Mentors

 

Name

Degree(s)

Rank

Primary Department or Program

Research Interest

Adelman, Zach

PhD

Professor

Entomology

Genetics of mosquitoes and mosquito-borne pathogens

Amrein, Hubert

PhD

Professor

Cell Biology & Genetics

Chemosensor perception & coding, neuropeptide signaling

Anderson, Brian A.

PhD

Professor

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention

Bernard, Jessica

PhD

Associate Professor

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Cognitive neuroscience of aging, cerebellar function

Case, Adam J.

PhD

Associate Professor

Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Post-traumatic stress disorder and its related pathophysiology

Dulin, Jennifer

PhD

Assistant Professor

Biology

Spinal Cord Injury

Farhy, Isabella

PhD

Assistant Professor

Biology

Astrocyte-neuron communication during development and in disease

Galloway-

Pena, Jessica

PhD

Assistant Professor

Veterinary Pathobiology

Cancer

Golding, Michael C

PhD

Associate Professor

Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology

Epigenetics, Developmental Programming and Birth Defects

Hamer, Sarah

PhD, DVM

Professor

Veterinary Integrative Biosciences

Ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of vector-borne, wildlife, and zoonotic diseases using field-based studies and molecular tools

Hurdle, Julian

PhD

Professor

IBT – Center for Infectious & Inflammatory Diseases

Clostridium difficile resistance, novel therapeutics, pathogenic mechanism

Jones, Jeff

PhD

Assistant Professor

Biology

Neural circuits underlying circadian rhythms in behavior and physiology

Keene, Alex

PhD

Professor and Head

Biology

Neurogenetics, sleep, evolutionary medicine

Khasawneh, Fadi

PhD

Associate Professor

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Cardiovascular Pharmacology; Hemostasis and Thrombosis

 

Liu, Fei

 

PhD

Associate Professor

Cell Biology & Genetics

 

Tissue-resident macrophages, mesenchymal stem cells, extracellular vesicles

 

Liu, Wenshe

PhD

Professor

Chemistry

Epigenetics, Drug Discovery

Maren, Stephen

PhD

Distinguished Professor

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Neurobiology of emotional learning and memory

Miranda, Rajesh C.

PhD

Professor

NEXT

Maternal-fetal health, pregnancy, fetal brain development, alcohol and substance use disorders

Mitchell, Brett

PhD

Professor

Medical Physiology

Immunity, Lymphatics, and Hypertension

Paredes-Sabja, Daniel

PhD

Associate Professor

Biology

Clostridioides difficile spore-host interactions, exosporium assembly and therapeutic development

Porter, Weston

PhD

Professor

Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology

breast cancer, mammary gland development, metabolism

Reeves, Gregory T.

PhD

Associate Professor

Chemical Engineering

Cell-cell signaling, Quantitative and Computational Developmental Biology, regulation of gene expression

Rutkowski, Joseph

PhD

Associate Professor

Medical Physiology

Lymphatics, inflammation, immunology, obesity, kidney disease

Samuel, James

PhD

Professor

Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology

Microbial Pathogenesis of intracellular bacteria

Shetty, Ashok K.

PhD

Professor

Cell Biology & Genetics

Pathophysiology and Therapeutics for Brain Aging, Alzheimer’s disease, Traumatic Brain Injury and Gulf War Illness.

Therapeutic studies using stem cells, and stem cell-derived extracellular vesicles and drugs

Sitcheran, Raquel

PhD

Associate Professor

Cell Biology & Genetics

Cancer Biology, Immunometabolism, Neuroinflammation

Smith, Rachel

PhD

Assistant Professor

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Behavioral neuroscience of addiction

Sohrabji, Farida

PhD

Professor

NExT

Stroke, dementia/AD, women’s health, sex differences

Song, Jianxun J

PhD

Professor

Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology

 

Immunobiology

Sorg, Joseph A.

PhD

Professor

Biology

Microbiology, spore germination, microbial pathogenesis

Strader, Marie

PhD

Assistant Professor

Biology

Ecological and evolutionary epigenetics; genetic and molecular basis of organismal responses to multiple stressors; and influence of phenotypic plasticity on organismal responses to rapid environmental change

Straight, Paul

PhD

Associate Professor

Biochemistry & Biophysics

Microbiology, Natural Products

Subash, Sarguru

BVSc, PhD

Associate Professor

Veterinary Pathobiology

Host-pathogen interaction in the urinary tract

Sun, Yuxiang

MD, PhD

Professor

Nutrition

Immunometabolism, inflamm-aging, neuroinflammation, metablic aging

Suva, Larry J

PhD

Professor

Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology

Bone biology, rare bone disease, orthopedics

Threadgill, David

PhD

Professor

Cell Biology & Genetics/Nutrition

Colon cancer, genetic x environment interactions

Wu, Chaodong

MD, PhD

Professor

Nutrition

obesity and metabolic diseases

Xie, Linglin

MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Nutrition

Maternal nutrition and Metabolic diseases

Maternal nutrition and Reproductive Health

Cardiac Development

Additional potential research mentors can be found on Texas A&M College of Medicine's Research Focus Areas webpage.