Faculty

Professor & Chair

Sandra L. Schmid, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Molecular mechanisms governing clathrin-mediated endocytosis

Professors

John M. Abrams, Ph.D. (Stanford University)
Molecular physiology of programmed cell death; gene regulation, chromatin assembly and 3D genome organization

Beatriz M. A. Fontoura, Ph.D. (New York University)
Molecular mechanisms of Nucleocytoplasmic transport and their role in viral pathogenesis and immune response; role of nuclear transport factors in mitosis

Frederick Grinnell, Ph.D. (Tufts University)
Cell mechanics in 3D matrices, wound repair and tissue engineering

Jerry W. Shay, Ph.D. (University of Kansas)
Molecular mechanisms of human cellular aging and cancer; the role of telomeres and telomerase in cancer

William J. Snell, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of cilium-generated signaling; molecular mechanisms of cell-cell fusion

Michael White, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Signal transduction; cancer cell biology; cancer intervention target discovery and development

Woodring Wright, M.D., Ph.D. (Stanford University)
The role of telomere biology in aging and cancer, molecular mechanism of telomere replication and telomerase action

Associate Professors

Wen-Hong Li, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego)
Hormone secretion and paracrine/autocrine signaling in pancreatic islets; probe engineering; molecular imaging

Lawrence Lum, Ph.D. (Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences)
Mechanisms of signal transduction; signal integration; signaling in development and disease

Joachim Seemann, Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute For Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
Biogenesis of the Golgi apparatus; membrane traffic; mitosis

Assistant Professors

Lily Jun-shen Huang, Ph.D. (University of California, San Diego)
Mechanisms of regulation of hematopoiesis, hematopoietic stem cell development, and leukemogenesis; cytokine receptor signaling

Qiu-Xing Jiang, Ph.D. (Yale University)
Structure and function of membrane proteins, especially ion channels, and cellular signaling complexes; Lipid-dependent gating of voltage-gated ion channels in cell membranes and its relation to human disease; importance of lipid-protein interaction for membrane protein function; new techniques for cryoEM imaging and data analysis

Saikat Mukhopadhyay, M.D., Ph.D. (Brandeis University) 
Ciliary signaling pathways, functional proteomics in ciliary disease, and primary cilia in normal development and cancer 

Research Faculty

Judith R. Head, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern)
Adjunct Associate Professor, Biology of Cells and Tissues Course Director

Peter Michaely, Ph.D. (Duke University)
Assistant Professor Hypercholesterolemia; LDL receptor; structural studies of amino acid repeats

Katherine Phelps, Ph.D. (University of Colorado)
Professor, Director UT Southwestern Live Cell Imaging Core Facility

Division of Anatomy

Barry R. Botterman, Ph.D. (University of California, Los Angeles)
Associate Professor: Neurophysiology of motor control; synaptic organization of spinal motoneurons; physiology of spinal cord injury

Richard A. Finn, D.D.S.
Professor (Oral Surgery)

Gary A. Iwamoto, Ph.D. (University of California, Davis)
Adjunct Professor: Remodeling of cardiorespiratory and locomotor control neurons of the central nervous system, Response and adaptation to exercise and hypodynamic environments

John Phelan, Ph.D. (UT Southwestern)
Adjunct Assistant Professor: Skeletal-muscular hypertrophy

Janine Prange-Kiel, Ph.D. (Eberhard Karls University, Germany)
Assistant Professor: Steroids in the brain; regulation of hippocampal estradiol synthesis; effects of estradiol and synaptic plasticity

Alisa Winkler, Ph.D. (Southern Methodist University)
Assistant Professor: Systematics and functional morphology of fossil mammals

Secondary Appointments

Richard A. Finn, D.D.S.
Professor, Surgery

Helmut Kramer, Ph.D.
Professor, Neuoscience

Stuart E. Ravnik, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean,

Rodney J. Rohrich, M.D.
Professor and Chairman, Plastic Surgery

Philipp E. Scherer, Ph.D.
Professor, Internal Medicine,
Director, Touchstone Center for Diabetes

Christoph Wuelfing, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Immunology