Faculty in Biology
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Lawrence R. Griffing Associate Professor griffing@neo.tamu.edu |
Cellular membrane traffic; plant endocytosis; plant pathogen interactions. |
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Timothy C. Hall Distinguished Professor & Director Tim@idb.tamu.edu |
Interactions of chromatin and transcription factors in phaseolin gene expression; rice biotechnology and gene silencing. |
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Thomas D. McKnight Professor and Associate Head mcknight@mail.bio.tamu.edu |
Structure, expression, and evolution of plant genes; indole alkaloid biosynthesis; mineral nutrition; plant telomeres and telomerase. |
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Comer O. Patterson Associate Professor cop@mail.bio.tamu.edu |
Physiology and biochemistry of microalgae; membrane structure and photosynthetic light reactions. |
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Alan E. Pepper Associate Professor apepper@mail.bio.tamu.edu |
Plant development; plant biology. |
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Terry L. Thomas Professor terry@mail.bio.tamu.edu |
Molecular biology; environmental and developmental gene regulation; functional genomics. |
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Wayne Versaw Assistant Professor wversaw@mail.bio.tamu.edu |
Plant and fungal molecular biology; phosphate transport and metabolism. |






