| Investigators | Description | Funding |
| Department of Animal Science | ||
| Bazer, Fuller | Early pregnancy detection to improve reproductive efficiency and prenatal health care in humans and animals; Identify therapeutic agents to address viral diseases such as pediatric AIDS in animals and humans | NIH, USDA |
| Chapkin, Robert | Dietary impact on cell vitality and longevity in the digestive and immune systems | NIH, Am.Inst.Cancer Res. |
| Forrest, David | Address animal infertility with molecular knowledge and techniques | Industry, LINK |
| Harms, Paul | Neuroendocrinology: neuropeptide secretion signal transduction | USDA |
| Ing, Nancy | How steroid hormones activate genes in the sheep uterus and how to modulate that activity | NSF, USDA |
| Lupton, Joanne | Nutrient control of gene expression and relationships to cancer in the large intestine; dietary mechanisms to reduce the potential risk of Colon cancer from Radiation exposure in space | NIH, AICR |
| Ramsey, Shawn | Sheep and goats (nutrition, reproduction, management) | Industry |
| Spencer, Thomas | Identify therapeutic agents used in the treatment of cancer and diseases, particularly breast cancer; Genomic approaches to discover factors, which regulate embryo survival and growth in animals and humans | USDA |
| Welsh, Thomas | Studies domestic animal endocrinology | USDA, Industry |
| Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics | ||
| Datta, Suma | Drosophila, stem cells | NIH |
| Guarino, Linda | Transcriptional regulation, DNA replication | NSF |
| Kunkel, Gary | The general mechanics of how genes are expressed | NSF |
| Mullet, John | Chloroplast #; hormone, light signal transduction | NIH, DOE, NSF |
| Park, Wm. D. | Manipulation of the 2+ trait in rice | Industry |
| Peterson, David O. | fundamental mechanisms of how genes are turned on and off | |
| Shippen, Dorothy | Telomerase | NIH |
| Wild, James R. | Genetic engineering-enzymes for toxin dysfunction | NSF, DOD, Industry |
| Young, Ryland F. | Bacteriophage biology and antibacterial activity | NIH |
| Department of Biology | ||
| Golden, Jim | How the enzymes and proteins produced by genes direct the functions of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria | NIH, DOE |
| Golden, Susan | Using a simple biological organism (photosynthetic bacterium) to address the ability of cells to tell 24 hour time, the process that underlies sleep/wake disorders and jet lag in humans | NIH, NSF, DOE |
| Hall, Tim | Development of rice transformation technologies and the production of a rice resistant to insect pests and microbial diseases | NSF, Industry |
| Manson, Mike | How bacteria create and sustain pathogen or symbiotic relationships with their respective hosts | NIH, ARO |
| McKnight, Tom | Structure, function and regulation of plant telomeres and telomerases; How plants detect and respond to phosphate starvation | NIH, USDA-NRI-CGP, ARP |
| Pepper, Alan | Relationships of environmental exposure to gene expression on economically important farm crops | NSF, NRI |
| Thomas, Terry | Promoter development, modification of seed quality | NRI, TxGRAIN, Industry |
| Department of Entomology | ||
| Summers, Max | Baculovirus biotechnology | |
| Pietrantonio, Patricia | Insect G protein-coupled receptors, molecular targets for insecticides | NIH, FARMP |
| Coates, Craig | Human health through an engineered strain of mosquitoes that don't have disease-carrying pathogens | NIH |
| Guarino, Linda | Baculovirus biotechnology | NSF, USDA |
| Department of Forest Science | ||
| Genetic engineering of crop plants and forest trees | NRI, EPA, Cotton Inc, THECB-STP, Industry | |
| Loopstra, Carol | Genes involved in wood formation in forest trees; genetic identity for drought tolerance in forest trees | NRI, IALC |
| Department of Horticulture Sciences | ||
| Department of Human Anatomy and Medical Neurobiology | ||
| Dohrman, Douglas P. | Drug addiction, signal transduction | |
| Earnest, David J. | Mental health disorders in association with circadian rhythms | NSF |
| Miranda, Rajesh C. | How early fetal environment regulates human development (drug abuse and environmental pollutants) | NIH |
| Sampson, H.Wayne | Bone metabolism, bone disease, osteoporosis | NIH |
| Sohrabji, Farida | The relationship between Alzhimers and estrogen replacement during menopause | NIH |
| West, James R. | Brain development, neuroscience, cell death, tetatology; fetal alcohol syndrome | NIH |
| Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology | ||
| Gonzalez, Carlos | Bacterial phytopathogenesis, antimicrobial peptides | USDA, Industry |
| Keller, Nancy | Genetics of mycotoxin regulation | NSF, NRI, TxGRAIN |
| Kenerley, Charles | Biological control; fungal ecology | USDA, TxCOT |
| Magill, Clint | Plant host defense & pathogen diversity | USAID/ICART, USAID/ATUT, USDA |
| Scholthof, Herman | Plant virus movement and virus gene vectors | USDA |
| Scholthof, Karen-Beth | Panicum mosaic virus and its satellites | USDA |
| Sundin, George | Bacteriology, mutagenic DNA repair, plasmid biology and evolution | USDA |
| Department of Poultry Science | ||
| Caldwell, David | Immunophysiology, enteric disease resistance, commercial poultry | |
| Department of Soil & Crop Sciences | ||
| Fritz, Allan | Rust resistance (wheat), aphid resistance | ATP, TxGRAIN |
| Rathore, Keerti | Introducing genes to cotton to make them more resistant to sap-sucking insects; improve quality of cotton seed | ATP, TxCOT, USDA, Rockefeller Found. |
| Smith, Roberta | Putting calcium genes into fruits and vegetable to improve nutritional value | TxCOT, TxState support, Industry |
| Department of Veterinary Anatomy & Public Health | ||
| Bratton, Gerald | Effects of Pb on neuroendocrine development | NIH |
| Burghardt, Robert | Non-invasive cellular imaging; signal transduction; reproductive biology | NIH, USDA, DOE |
| Busbee, David | Marine mammals, toxicology , cytogenetics | EPA, NOAA |
| Dees, W. Les | Neuroendocrinology; puberty; reproductive toxicology | NIH |
| Johnson, Larry | How growth factors stimulate the production of sperm. | NIH, LINK Found, Racehorse |
| Department of Veterinary Medicine and Anatomy | ||
| Piedrahita, Jorge | Developing precise pharmaceutical/therapeutic treatments via cloned cells, organs, and genetically enhanced animals for use in human and veterinary medicine | NIH, ARP/ATP, Industry |
| Skow, Loren | Comparative genomics of mammals, MHC organization | USDA, TPWD, Foundations |
| Department of Veterinary Pathobiology | ||
| Adams, Garry | Developing protective vaccines and improving diagnostic tests to detect organisms and identifying disease resistance genes for breeding and cloning cattle resistant to brucellosis, tuberculosis, salmonellosis, and E. coli 0157:H7 | USDA, NIH, TATP |
| Ball, Judith | Enteric viruses, viral enterotoxin, signal transduction, membrane interactions, protein transport; | USDA, ARP |
| Collisson, Ellen | Discovering cellular responses to feline Immunodeficiency virus and using this feline model to address human AIDS problems; Researching cellular responses to infectious bronchitis an economically important virus in the poultry industry. | NIH, USDA, private foundations |
| Derr, James | DNA technology/vet. Medicine | NIH |
| Ficht, Tom | Understanding the mechanisms of invasion and survival of bacteria within the host in order to design improved vaccines and treatments to enhance immunity | USDA, NIH |
| Smith, Roger III | Utilizing cutting edge imaging technologies for more precise descriptions of the nature and functions of cells in various animal disease conditions | |
| Snowden, Karen | Parasites, immunodiagnostic methods | NIH |
| Templeton, Joe | Genes controlling natural disease resistance in mammals | USDA USDI |
| Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology | ||
| Kochevar, Deborah | Evaluating effective treatments for osteoarthritis / degenerative joint disease through molecular biology | Industry |
| Kraemer, Duane C. | Discovering improved in vitro fertilization, cloning, and genetic engineering to address issues such as wildlife preservation, efficient livestock production, animal models for research and infertility | NIH, Foundations |
| Ramos, Kenneth. | Tissue culture, transgenics | NIH |
| Safe, Stephen | Development of new drugs and the effects estrogen has with the treatment of breast cancer | NIH, DOD, Industry |
| Westhusin, Mark | Developing and improving the cloning of animals through the use of genetically engineered cells | NIH, ATP/ARP, Industry, Foundations |
| TAMU Ag Research & Extension - Amarillo | ||
| Lazar, Mark | Development of DNA tags for selection of stress resistance genes in wheat with the current focus on greenbug resistance | |
| Yiqun, Weng | Identifying genes that improve pest resistance and drought tolerance in wheat | |
| TAMU Ag Research & Extension - Dallas | ||
| Read, James | Identification of genes for methods of reproduction in Texas Bluegrass | TxGRAIN, industry |
| Reinert, Jim | Developing hybrid Zoysia grass cultivars that are resistant to fall armyworms | TxGRAIN, industry |
| Engelke, Milt | Identification and isolation of genes in Zoysiagrass which impart natural resistance of chewing insects in order to decrease pesticide use | Industry |
| Mackay,
Wayne
Dennis Genovesi |
Biotechnology to improve flower life and nursery crops | Industry |
| TAMU Ag Research & Extension- Corpus Christi | ||
| Williams, Gary L. | Endocrine regulation of reproduction in beef cattle | USAD, indusktry, foundations |