Join us to celebrate our Nineteen GENE faculty members who met the DEI program requirements
and achieved the GENEious Mentor designation!
Zach Adelman, PhD
Sarah Bondos, PhD
Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, PhD
Adam Case, PhD
Zhilei Chen, PhD
Shaunna Clark, PhD
Jessica Galloway-Pena, PhD
Erin Giles, PhD
Vishal Gohil, PhD
Michael Golding, PhD
Michael Polymenis, PhD
Weston Porter, PhD
Joseph Rutkowski, PhD
Loren Skow, PhD
David Threadgill, PhD
Zhilong Yang, PhD
Dorothy Shippen, PhD
Raquel Sitcheran, PhD
David Stelly, PhD
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND LIFE SCIENCES
Department of Animal Science
Clare Gill, PhD
Professor, Executive Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Research College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Jason Gill, PhD
Associate Professor
Nancy Ing, PhD
Professor
David, Riley, PhD
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Mary Bryk, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Jorge Cruz-Reyes, PhD
Professor
Vishal Gohil, PhD
Associate Professor
Ping He, PhD
Professor and Presidential Impact Fellow
Dmitry Kurouski , PhD
Assistant Professor
John Mullet, PhD
Professor and Perry L. Adkisson Chair in Agricultural Biology
Vlad Panin, PhD
Professor
Michael Polymenis, PhD
Professor
Dorothy Shippen, PhD
University Distinguished Professor
Regents Professor
Paul Straight, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology
Claudio Casola, PhD
Associate Professor
Luis Hurtado, PhD
Associate Professor
Jessica Light, PhD
Associate Professor
Mariana Mateos, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Entomology
Zachary Adelman, PhD
Professor
Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow
Texas A&M University Agrilife Research Fellow
Kevin Myles, PhD
Professor
Department of Nutrition
Robert Chapkin, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Allen Endowed Chair in Nutrition & Chronic Disease Prevention, University Faculty Fellow, Regents Fellow & AgriLife Senior Faculty Fellow
Erin Giles, PhD
Assistant Professor
Shaodong Guo, PhD
Associate Professor
Yuxiang Sun, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Linglin Xie, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Kurt Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor; Director of Rigor & Reproducibility Core
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Clint W. Magill, PhD
Professor
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences
Seth Murray, PhD
Professor
Butler Endowed Chair in Agricultural Biotechnology
Sakiko Okumoto, PhD
Associate Professor
Endang Septiningsih, PhD
Associate Professor
David Stelly, PhD
Professor
John Z. Yu, PhD
Research Geneticist
Hongbin Zhang, PhD
Professor
AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Amarillo, TX
Shuyu Liu, PhD
Professor
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Akhilesh Gaharwar, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Pushkar Lele, PhD
Associate Professor & William and Ruth Neely Faculty Fellow
Gregory Reeves, PhD
Associate Professor
Qing Sun, PhD
Assistant Professor
Xuejun Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine
Hubert Amrein, PhD
Professor
Vytas Bankaitis, PhD
Distinguished Professor, E.L. Wehner-Welch Foundation Chair in Chemistry
Kayla J. Bayless, PhD
Associate Professor
Sarah Bondos, PhD
Associate Professor
Robin Fuchs-Young, PhD
Professor
Geoffrey Kapler, PhD
Professor and Chair of Molecular & Cellular Medicine
Jason Karpac, PhD
Associate Professor
Fei Liu, PhD
Associate Professor
Irtisha Singh, PhD
Assistant Professor
Raquel Sitcheran, PhD
Associate Professor
David Threadgill, PhD
Distinguished Professor
Tom and Jean McMullin Chair in Genetics
Director, Texas A&M Institute for Genome Sciences and Society
Deborah Threadgill, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Medical Physiology
Joseph Rutkowski, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology
Helene Andrews-Polymenis, PhD
Professor
Presidential Impact Fellow
Zhilei Chen, PhD
Associate Professor
Jeffrey Cirillo, PhD
Regents Professor
Director of the Center for Airborne Pathogen Research and Imaging (CAPRI)
Jenny Hyde, PhD
Assistant Professor
Julian Leibowitz, PhD
Professor
Kristin Patrick, PhD
Assistant Professor
James E. Samuel, PhD
Regents Professor and Head
Wofford Cain Endowed Chair in Infectious Disease
Jon Skare, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair
Jianxun (Jim) Song, PhD
Professor
Robert Watson, PhD
Associate Professor
Phillip West, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience and Experimental Therapeutics
Cédric G. Geoffroy, PhD
Assistant Professor
Rajesh Miranda, PhD
Professor
Mendell Rimer, PhD
Associate Professor
Jun Wang, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Adam J. Case,PhD
Associate Professor
Shaunna Clark, PhD
Associate Professor
John Hettema, MD, PhD
Professor
Vladimir Vladimirov, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
IRMA LERMA RANGEL SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mahua Choudhury, PhD
Associate Professor
COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Department of Biology
Rodolfo Aramayo, PhD
Associate Professor
Heath Blackmon, PhD
Assistant Professor
Charles Criscione, PhD
Professor
Kira Delmore, PhD
Assistant Professor
Luis René García, PhD
Professor and Department Head for Graduate Studies
Richard Gomer, PhD
Professor
Thomas Powell ’62
Jerome Menet, PhD
Assistant Professor
Christine Merlin, PhD
Associate Professor
Beiyan Nan, PhD
Assistant Professor
Daniel Paredes-Sabja, PhD
Associate Professor
Alan Pepper, PhD
Professor
Hongmin Qin, PhD
Associate Professor
Bruce Riley, PhD
Professor
Matt Sachs, PhD
Professor
Lamba Omar Sangare, PhD
Assistant Professor
Deborah Siegele, PhD
Associate Professor
Aref Zarin, PhD
Assistant Professor
SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE & BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences
Candice Brinkmeyer-Langford, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
James Cai, PhD
Associate Professor
Brian W. Davis, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
William Murphy, PhD
Professor
Weston Porter, PhD
Professor
Terje Raudsepp, PhD
Professor
Loren Skow, PhD
Senior Professor Emeritus
Department of Veterinary Pathobiology
Michael Criscitiello, PhD
Associate Professor and Associate Department Head
James Derr, PhD
Professor & Director, DNA Technologies Core Laboratory
Scott Dindot, PhD
Associate Professor
Jessica Galloway-Peña, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sarguru Subash BVSc, PhD
Assistant Professor
James Womack, PhD
Distinguished Senior Professor Emeritus
Zhilong Yang , PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology
Tracy Clement, PhD
Assistant Professor
Michael Golding, PhD
Associate Professor
Larry J. Suva, PhD
Professor & Department Head
Interested in joining the Faculty of Genetics and Genomics (FoG2)?
Please send the following to genesec@tamu.edu
1. Curriculum Vitae
2. Letter of Intent or Research Interest
3. A letter of support of the nomination from your Department Head
The Faculty of Genetics and Genomics Membership Committee will review the nomination and you will be informed of their decision
Please review the Faculty Bylaws and Faculty Expectations before applying