RESEARCH GROUPS

FACULTY

	Esther Betran Associate Professor betran@uta.edu	Gene Duplication, Retrogenes, Sex Chromosomes, Promoter Recruitment, Drosophila, Computational Biology.	Lab Website
	Paul T.Chippindale Professor paulc@exchange.uta.edu	Amphibian Biology, Biodiversity, Evolution, Mitogenomics, Phylogenetics/Phylogenomics, Population Genetics.	Lab Website
	Shawn M. Christensen Assistant Professor shawnc@uta.edu	Mobile Genetic Elements, Retrotransposons, Mechanisms of Transposition, Target Primed Reverse Transcription (TPRT), Protein/Nucleic-Acid Interactions, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry.	Lab Website
	Jeff Demuth Assistant Professor jpdemuth@uta.edu	Speciation Genetics and Genomics; Evolution of Duplicate Genes; Maternal Effects,Tribolium.	Lab Website
	Cedric Feschotte Associate Professor cedric@uta.edu	Transposable Elements, Genome Structure and Dynamics, DNA Binding.	Lab Website
	John “Trey” Fondon III Assistant Professor fondon@uta.edu	Integrative evolutionary genetics and genomics, and molecular origins of phenotypic variation	Lab Website
	Maeli Melotto Assistant Professor melotto@uta.edu	Molecular Plant-Pathogen Interactions, Plant Pathology, Arabidopsis/Pseudomonas model pathosystem, Plant Genetics and Genomics	Lab Website
	Andre Pires Da Silva Assistant Professor apires@uta.edu	Evolution of Sex Determination, C. elegans, P. pacificus,zinc finger transcription factor TRA-1.	Lab Website
	Ellen Pritham Assistant Professor pritham@uta.edu	Transposable Elements, Genome Ecology, Sex Chromosomes, Asexuality, Entamoeba	Lab Website
	James V. Robinson Professor james.robinson@uta.edu	Population Biology, Odonate Research.	Lab Website
	Jorge Rodrigues Assistant Professor jorge@uta.edu	Microbial Ecology, Environmental Genomics, Microbial Genomics, Evolution	Lab Website
	Woo-Suk Chang Assistant Professor wschang@uta.edu	Microbial Genomics and Environmental Microbiology.	Lab Website

COLLABORATORS

	Yaowu Hao Assistant Professor Dept. Materials Science and Engineering yhao@uta.edu	Development and applications of novel magnetic nanostructures.	Lab Website
	David Levine Senior Lecturer Dept. Computer Science levine@cse.uta.edu	Software Engineering, Systems, Distributed-Networked Objects, Operating Systems	Lab Website
	Subhrangsu S. Mandal Assistant Professor Dept. Chemistry& Biochemistry smandal@uta.edu	Characterization of novel transcription factors, epigenetics, histone modification and chromatin transcription.	Lab Website
	Patricia Newcomb College of Nursing Genomics Lab pnewcomb@uta.edu	The Genomics Translational Research Lab	Lab Website
	Nikola Stojanovic Assistant Professor Dept. Computer Science nick@cse.uta.edu	Computational biology and bioinformatics, algorithms, data visualization	Lab Website

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

	Brian Fontenot Demuth Lab
	Miguel Gallach Betran Lab mgallach@uta.edu	Retrogenes, X chromoseme evolution, gene duplication
	Clement Gilbert Feschotte Lab clement.gilbert@uta.edu	Mobile DNA
	Babur Mirza Rodrigues Lab babur@uta.edu
	Cheng Sun Pritham Lab

RESEARCH STAFF

	Kristen Correll kcorrell@uta.edu	Fondon Lab
	Raymond Jones rjones@uta.edu	GBG Core Facilities Manager
	Lenore Price lprice@uta.edu	Pires Lab
	Javier Rio javier@uta.edu	Betran Lab

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Susana Domingues Betran Lab susana.domingues@uta.edu	Nisita Obulareddy Melotto Lab nisita@uta.edu
Heather Hawkings Betran/ Demuth Labs HeatherMichaell.Hawkins@gmail.com	Shweta Panchal Melotto Lab shwetaraghuvir.panchal@mavs.uta.edu
Christian Cox Chippindale Lab clcox@uta.edu	Debanjana Roy Melotto Lab debanjana.roy@mavs.uta.edu
Mersee Madison-Villar Chippindale Lab mersee@uta.edu	Alie Koroma koroma@uta.edu
Carolyn Crumpton Christensen Lab	Jyotiska Chaudhuri Pires Lab jyotiska@uta.edu
Athena Jagdish Christensen Lab athena@uta.edu	Vikas Kache Pire Lab vikas.kache@mavs.uta.edu
Haridha Shivram Christensen Lab haridh@uta.edu	Manish Parihar Pires Lab manish@uta.edu
Blaine Thompson Christensen Lab blainet@uta.edu	Chad Watkins Pires Lab cwatkins@uta.edu
Amrita Pal Demuth Lab amrita.pal@mavs.uta.edu	Claudia Marquez Pritham Lab Claudia.Marquez@uta.edu
Eric Watson Demuth Lab etwatson@uta.edu	Jainy Thomas Pritham Lab jathomas@uta.edu
Mahima Varma Feschotte Lab varma@uta.edu	Sealy Hambright Rodrigues Lab sealyhambright@yahoo.com
Qi Wanq Feschotte Lab qiwang@utya.edu	Jantiya Isanapong (Nok) Rogrigues Lab
Eldon Prince Fondon Lab	Aditya Ranjan Rodrigues Lab adityar@uta.edu

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