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Biotechnology Program

Biotechnology - Faculty

Molecular Biotechnology
Larry Rohde
   Larry Rohde
Associate Professor of Biology and Biotechnology
Program Chair of Biotechnology
 
Office: B3525- 6 Lab: B3126
Phone: (281) 283-3743
Email: rohde@uhcl.edu
Website: http://sce.uhcl.edu/rohde/
   
 
Research Interests:
 
  • Molecular and developmental biology
  • Regulation of apoptosis
    • protein-protein interaction
    • transcription control
    • protein modification
Robert Ferebee

 

   Robert Ferebee (Emeritus)
Retired Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
 
Office: B3611
Phone: (281) 283-3857
Email: ferebee@uhcl.edu
Website:  http://sce.uhcl.edu/ferebee/
   
  Research Interests:
 
  • Parallel & Distributed Computing
  • Graph Theory & Algorithms
  • Data Mining
  • VLSI Design
Cynthia Howarde
   Cynthia Howard
Professor of Biology and Environmental Science
Program Chair of Biological Sciences
 
Office: 3525-12    
Phone: (281) 283-283-3745
Email: howardc@uhcl.edu
Website: http://sce.uhcl.edu/howard/
  Research Interests:
 
  • Environmental Toxicology
  • Pollution Effects on Estuarine & Coastal Wetland Communities
  • Biomarkers of Pollutants Effects
  • Tropical Ecotoxicology
Ron Mills
   Ronald Mills
Professor of Biology and Chemistry
 
Office: 3531-1 Lab: 3522
Phone: (281) 283-3773
Email: mills@uhcl.edu
Website: http://sce.uhcl.edu/mills/
  Research Interests:
 
  • Plant biochemistry
  • Ecotilling and plant genomics
Richard Puzdrowski
  

Richard Puzdrowski
Associate Professor of Biology
Division Chair Natural Sciences

 
Office: 3525- 4 Lab: 3504
Phone: (281) 283-283--3750
Email: puzdrowski@uhcl.edu
Website:  http://sce.uhcl.edu/puzdrowski/
   
  Research Interests:
 
  • Environmental Physiology
  • Environmental Neurobiology
M. Bazlur Rashid
   Bazlur Rashid
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology
 
Office: 3525-11 Lab: 3106
Phone: (281) 283 3756
Email: rashid@uhcl.edu
Website: http://sce.uhcl.edu/rashid
   
  Research Interests:
 
  • Regulation and localization of proteins/enzymes aiming towards vaccine development or chemotherapy
  • Cloning of novel genes to study roles in pathophysiology in human diseases
  • Universal expression of genes in both prokaryotes and eukaryote
  • Mechanism of DNA replication
Lory Z. Santiago-Vázquez
   Lory Z. Santiago-Vázquez
Assistant Professor of Biotechnology
 
Office: B3525-7 Lab: 3127
Phone: (281) 283-3776
Email: santiago@uhcl.edu
   
  Research Interests:
 
  • Biotechnology of marine natural products with anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer activity
  • Microbial ecology of soft corals
  • Molecular markers of the stress response of corals
Carl Zhang


 

   Carl Zhang
Professor of Environmental Science/Environmental Chemistry
Program Chair Environmental Science
 
Office: 3525-9 Lab: 3306
Phone: (281) 283-3746
Email: zhang@uhcl.edu
Website:  http://sce.uhcl.edu/zhang/
   
  Research Interests:
 
  • Environmental Chemistry
  • Environmental Remediation
  • Environmental Biotechnology
Bioinformatics / Computational Biology
Dr. Gary Boetticher
   Gary Boetticher
Associate Professor Computer Science and Software Engineering
 
Office: Delta 164
Phone: (281) 283-283-3805
Email: boetticher@uhcl.edu
Website:  http://sce.uhcl.edu/boetticher/
   
  Research Interests:
 
  • Data Mining
  • Computational Bioinformatics
  • Machine Learners
  • Software Metrics
Biotechnology Management and Marketing
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