Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

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Campus address: Norman Hackerman Building (NHB) 2.606, phone: (512) 471-5105; campus mail code: A6500

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

E-mail: ilsgrad@austin.utexas.edu

URL: www.ils.utexas.edu/biochemistry

Areas of Study

Graduate study in biochemistry is offered in a wide range of areas including mechanisms of drug action; genetics of human disease; metabolic compartmentalization and regulation; structure and function of enzymes, toxins, viruses, ion channels, and receptors; mechanism and regulation of cellular processes; enzymology of DNA repair and replication, transcription, and translation; and computational biology. Additional details are available on the program website and from the graduate advisor.

Graduate Studies Committee

The following faculty members served on the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) in the spring 2025 semester.

Hal S Alper Jeffrey E Barrick Ethel Bayer Santos Xiaolu Cambronne Lydia Maria Contreras Kevin N Dalby Bryan William Davies Daniel James Dickinson Stephen Carl Ekker Andrew Ellington Ilya J Finkelstein George Georgiou Rasika M Harshey Brent L Iverson Andres Jara-Oseguera Arlen W Johnson Zunlong Ke Adrian T Keatinge-Clay Alan Lambowitz Daniel J Leahy

Seongmin Lee Yi Lu Edward M Marcotte Andreas Matouschek Despoina Mavridou Jennifer A Maynard Jason McLellan Somshuvra Mukhopadhyay Tanya T Paull Shelley M Payne Pengyu Ren Rick Russell David Soloveichik Christopher S Sullivan David William Taylor Jr Lauren J Webb Christian P Whitman Claus O Wilke Kun Yang Yan Zhang

Admission Requirements

Students seeking a graduate degree in biochemistry must have a bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in a related 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.