FACULTY | Genetics at Texas A&M University

Exciting News!

Check out this awesome paper published yesterday at Nature Ecology and Evolution!

Congrats to Dr. Vaishali Katju, and Dr. Peter Sarkies laboratory from the Imperial College London

Congratulations to Dr. Vytas Bankaitis on his most recents publications:

2. "Structural analysis of a plant fatty acid amide hydrolase provides insights into the evolutionary diversity of bioactive acylethanolamides"

1. "Biophysical Parameters of the Sec14 Phospholipid Exchange Cycle"

3. "An equal opportunity collaboration between lipid metabolism and proteins in the control of membrane trafficking in the trans-Golgi and endosomal systems"

4. "Functional diversification of the chemical landscapes of yeast Sec14-like phosphatidylinositol transfer protein lipid-binding cavities"

5. "The neural stem cell/carnitine malnutrition hypothesis: new prospects for effective reduction of autism risk?"

6. "Mammalian phospholipase D: Function, and therapeutics"

7. "Lipoprotein Lipase Sorting: Sphingomyelin and a Proteoglycan Show the Way"

8. "Noncanonical regulation of phosphatidylserine metabolism by a Sec14-like protein and a lipid kinase"

Click in each publication to learn more:

Congratulations to Dr. Terje Raudsepp on her 2020 publication:

"Characterization of A Homozygous Deletion of Steroid Hormone Biosynthesis Genes in Horse

Chromosome 29 as A Risk Factor for Disorders of Sex Development and Reproduction"

Congratulations to Dr. Kristin Patrick and Dr. Robert Watson on their 2019 publication:

"The Splicing Factor hnRNP M Is a Critical Regulator of Innate Immune Gene Expression in Macrophages"

Congratulations to Dr. Jack Hettema on his two most recently publications:

1. "Genome-wide association study of shared liability to anxiety disorders in Army STARRS"

2. "A major role for common genetic variation in anxiety disorders"

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Criscione on his 2020 publication:

"Clonemate cotransmission supports a role for kin selection in a puppeteer parasite"

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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

Andy Herring, PhD
Professor and Holder of the John K. Riggs ’41 Beef Cattle Professorship

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

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 Ecosystem Science and Management

Claudio Casola, PhD
Associate Professor

Department of Entomology

Zachary Adelman, PhD
Professor

J. Spencer Johnston, PhD
Professor

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

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Luis Hurtado, PhD
Associate Professor

Mariana Mateos, PhD
Associate Professor

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Department of Biomedical Engineering

Akhilesh Gaharwar, PhD
Associate Professor

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Associate Professor

Xuejun Zhu, PhD
Assistant Professor

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Department of Anthropology

Anna Linderholm, PhD
Associate Professor

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Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine

Hubert Amrein, PhD
Professor and Vice Dean for Research

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
Assistant 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