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…
Nicholas R. De Lay, PhD
Dr. De Lay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at UTHealth Houston’s McGovern Medical School. Dr. De Lay joined the department in 2013 after completing his postdoctoral research fellowship with Dr. Susan Gottesman at…
