Biochemistry

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

For More Information

Campus address: Louise and James Robert Moffett Molecular Biology Building (MBB) 1.220F, phone (512) 471-0934; campus mail code: A4810

Mailing address: The University of Texas at Austin, Graduate Program in Biochemistry, 1 University Station A4810, Austin TX 78712

E-mail: cmbprogram@austin.utexas.edu

URL: www.icmb.utexas.edu/Biochemistry

Areas of Study

Graduate study in biochemistry is offered in a wide range of areas including drug metabolism; nutritive aspects of human disease; metabolic regulation; structure and function of enzymes, toxins, and contractile proteins; mechanism and regulation of protein biosynthesis; cloning, sequencing, and site-directed mutagenesis of enzyme-coding genes; enzymology of DNA repair and replication; and biochemical taxonomy. Details are available from the graduate adviser.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee in the spring semester 2017.

Hal S Alper Eric V Anslyn Dean R Appling Jeffrey E Barrick Karen S Browning Lydia Maria Contreras Richard M Crooks Kevin N Dalby Ron Elber Andrew Ellington Walter L Fast Ilya J Finkelstein Richard H Finnell George Georgiou Marvin L Hackert Rasika M Harshey David W Hoffman Jon M Huibregtse Brent L Iverson Arlen W Johnson Kenneth Johnson Adrian T Keatinge-Clay Alan Lambowitz Daniel J Leahy

Seongmin Lee Hung-Wen Liu Edward M Marcotte Stephen F Martin Andreas T Matouschek Mikhail V Matz Jennifer A Maynard Edward M Mills Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay Tanya T Paull Shelley M Payne Pengyu Ren Rick Russell Livia Schiavinato Eberlin Jason B Shear Scott W Stevens Christopher S Sullivan David W Taylor Jr Lauren J Webb Marvin Whiteley Christian P Whitman Claus O Wilke Blerta Xhemalce Yan Zhang

Admission Requirements

Students seeking a graduate degree in biochemistry must have a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in a cognate area, such as chemistry, biology, physics, or microbiology with the following preparation: mathematics through one year of calculus; chemistry, including organic chemistry, biochemistry, and physical chemistry; general physics; and biology, including cell biology. Deficiencies in undergraduate courses, if not too extensive, may be corrected during the student’s first two semesters in the graduate program. These courses are usually not counted toward graduate degrees.