The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics

Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Residency Program

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.read more

 


 


Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Research

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.

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Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Continuing Education

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.

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Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Special Programs

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.

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HEADLINES

  • Graduate student Naomi Bier received the 2013 Daniel Lee Mattis Scholarship Award from the National Council of Jewish Women Career Branch.
  • Congratulations to Graduate Student Malik Raynor, who received 1st place among the graduate students with his poster presentation at the MBID retreat, and Postdoctoral Fellow Slavena Vylkova, who received 1st place among the postdoctoral fellows for her poster presentation at the MBID retreat.
  • Graduate student Jessica Galloway-Peña received a 2012-2013 President's Research Scholarship awarded by the Presidents of UT Health and UT MD Anderson Cancer Center for senior GSBS doctoral students who have achieved distinction in research.
  • Students Jennifer Abrams and Jennifer Herricks received the Robert D. Watkins Fellowship. A small number of Watkins Fellowships are awarded annually by the American Society for Microbiology to highly competitive graduate students who are enrolled in a Ph.D. program and who have completed their graduate course work in the microbiological sciences.
  • Graduate Student Alexandra Marshall was awarded the 2012-2013 Marilyn and Frederick R. Lummis, Jr., M.D. Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences.
  • THE 2012 MMG SPRING NEWSLETTER

    As compiled by graduate students Kim Busiek, Katie McCallum and Jacob Verghese