Welcome
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
Congratulations Jacob Verghese for designing the winning logo for the 2012 MMG Logo Competition! Jacob is a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Kevin Morano.
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
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
- Chris Mackenzie, Danielle Garsin and Ambro van Hoof were awarded the 2011-2012 Dean's Teaching Excellence Award.
- MMG student, Ale Klauer, presented a poster at the International Meeting of the RNA Society in Kyoto, Japan on "The arch and core domains of Mtr4 contribute to exosome function by promoting Rrp6-dependent functions".
- MMG student, Jessica Galloway-Peña, was awarded a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health Related Research
- MMG Alumna, Stacie Meaux, Ph.D., was awarded an NRSA postdoctoral scholarship for her work on "Determining the role of the stem-loop binding protein in histone MRNA decay" at the University of North Carolina.
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THE MMG SPRING NEWSLETTER
As compiled by graduate students Kim Busiek and Jacob Verghese
