Welcome
The Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Department of The University of Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston is highly committed to excellence in both research and education. Our faculty carry out research in the biology, pathogenesis, and molecular genetics of a wide variety of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes. The department is home to the Graduate Program in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and also offers the Medical Microbiology course taken by first year medical students at the UT-Houston Medical School.
Faculty Positions Available
We are currently seeking applicants for tenure track positions within the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics further details are availble here.
MMG Graduate Program
Our graduate program faculty are internationally recognized leaders in microbiology or molecular genetics. We are committed to graduate education and have diverse research interests.
Research
The Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics faculty use prokaryotic and eukaryotic microbes to investigate basic biological problems and to study bacterial and fungal pathogenesis.
Medical Education
The Microbiology and Molecular Genetics offers the Medical Microbiology course taken by first-year medical students at The University of Texas-Houston Medical School.
Facilities
The MMG Core Facility is now located in room MSB1.004 and provides automated DNA sequencing services for all interested researchers within the UT Health Science Center as well as other academic institutions.
Seminars at 10:45 am
Jan. 24 - MSB 2.130 | Vasant Muralidharan (Washington University School of Medicine)
"Chaperoning the intraerythrocytic life cycle of Plasmodium falciparum"
Jan. 26 - MSB 2.135 | Eduardo Torres (MIT)
"Identification of aneuploidy-tolerating mutations"
Jan. 31 - MSB 2.103 | Xiaoyun "Frank" Liu (Yale University)
"Systems-level analysis of host-pathogen interactions using mass spectrometry-based proteomics"
Feb. 7 - MSB 2.103 | Alexander Paredez (University of California Berkeley)
"The Giardia actin cytoskeleton: Lessons from a non-conformist"
Feb. 9 - MSB 2.135 | Wai-Leung Ng (Princeton University) "Modulating quorum sensing in Vibrio species"
Feb. 16 - MSB 2.135 | Zhao-Qing Luo (Purdue University) "Making a living in a hostile environment: Strategies by Legionella pneumophila"
Feb. 28 - MSB 2.103 | Elitza Tocheva (California Institute of Technology) "Sporulation in the Gram-negative bacterium Acetonema longum"
Mar. 1 - MSB 2.135 | Raphael Valdivia (Duke University School of Medicine)
"Insights into biology of the obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis through proteomic and "NextGen" genetic approaches"
Mar. 8 - MSB 2.135 | Laura Lackner (University of California Davis)
"The molecular mechanisms of mitochondrial division and positioning"
Apr. 5 - MSB 2.135 | Laurie Read (University of Buffalo SUNY)
"Essential players in Trypanosome RNA editing"
Apr. 12 - MSB 2.135 | Dominique Missiakas (University of Chicago)
"TBA"
Apr. 19 - MSB 2.135 | Doug Cyr (Univeristy of North Carolina)
"TBA"
Apr. 26 - MSB 2.135 | John Taylor (University of California Berkeley)
"Population genomics, natural selection and adaptive evolution of fungi"
HEADLINES
- Bill Margolin made the new Mini-review Editor for the Journalof Bacteriology.
- Peter Christie elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
- Theresa Koehler addresses the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity regarding "Creating a Culture of Responsibility in an Academic Research Laboratory"
- William Margolin receives Human Frontier Science Program grant (scroll down)
- Kevin Morano receives Rice innovator award (scroll down linked page)
- MMG student Jennifer Abrams wins microbiology research scholarship (scroll down linked page)
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THE MMG SPRING NEWSLETTER
As compiled by graduate students Kim Busiek and Jacob Verghese
