Jayhun Lee, PhD
Dr. Jayhun Lee received his B.S. in Biological Sciences from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea. He then moved to the United States to join the laboratory of Dr. Tudorita Tumbar in the Department…
Todd Cameron, PhD
Ambro van Hoof, PhD
Dr. van Hoof was born and raised in the Netherlands and first learned about molecular genetics during his undergraduate education at Wageningen Agricultural University. He decided to pursue molecular genetics for his graduate education at the DOE Plant Research Lab…
Kevin A. Morano, PhD
Dr. Morano is a native Californian who received his B.S. in Biological Sciences at the University of California, Irvine working with Drs. Stephen Weller and Ann Sakai on the evolution of dioecy in flowering plants, and his Ph.D. in Microbiology…
William Margolin, PhD
Dr. Margolin grew up in Tenafly, NJ, near New York City. He attended M.I.T. as an undergraduate, where he worked on E. coli genetics research with Graham Walker, and biochemical engineering research on thermophilic clostridia with Daniel I.C. Wang. He…
Ronald “Chris” Mackenzie, PhD, FRSB
Dr. Mackenzie’s Ph.D. research was on the light-harvesting antenna complexes of photosynthetic bacteria. This work was jointly supervised by Drs. Richard Cogdell and Kim Kaiser at Glasgow University in the UK. After a short postdoctoral fellowship, which involved isolating genes…
Michael C. Lorenz, PhD
Dr. Lorenz joined the faculty of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at McGovern Medical School in 2003 as an Assistant Professor. In 2023 he was named chair of MMG and is proud to be part of this dynamic…
Ziyin Li, PhD
Dr. Ziyin Li received his Ph.D. degree in molecular genetics from the Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, working on plant stress responses. He did his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Prof. C.C. Wang at the…
Heidi B. Kaplan, PhD
Dr. Kaplan grew up in Center City Philadelphia where she attended public school. She received her B.A. in Biology from Brandeis University outside of Boston. She worked for two years as a research assistant at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute…
Danielle A. Garsin, PhD
Dr. Garsin is a professor in the McGovern Medical School Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Garsin came to UTHealth as an assistant professor in 2004 following a postdoctoral…