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Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, MS-144
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892

Physical Address
Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, MS-144
Suite 170 BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC)
Rice University
Houston, Texas 77005-1827

Email: ibb@rice.edu  

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Director and IBB Staff

Yousif Shamoo (shamoo@rice.edu) Director of IBB, Wiess Career Development Chair,
Professor in Biochemistry and Cell Biology  
Stacey Kalovidouris  (Stacey.Kalovidouris@rice.edu) Executive Director of IBB
Lisa Blinn  (Lisa.S.Blinn@rice.edu) Associate Director of IBB
Kimberly M'Carver (kimberly@rice.edu) Program Coordinator (Undergraduate Programs)
Dyani Banda (dbanda@rice.edu) Program Coordinator (High School Programs)

Steering Committee

George N. Bennett
(gbennett@rice.edu)
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Janet Braam
(braam@rice.edu)
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and Chair
Seiichi P.T. Matsuda
(matsuda@ruf.rice.edu)
E. Dell Butcher Professor of Chemistry and Chair, Professor of Bio-
chemistry and Cell Biology
Antonios G. Mikos 
 (mikos@rice.edu)
John W. Cox Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering  
Rebecca Richards-Kortum
(rkortum@rice.edu)
Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering, Director of Rice 360,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor  
Ka-Yiu San (ksan@rice.edu) E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering, Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering

Rice University Faculty
Members of the Institute include one hundred and fifteen faculty from thirteen departments to provide a broad mix of interests and expertise.

David Alexander  (dalex@rice.edu )
Director, Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Genevera Allen  (gallen@rice.edu ) Assistant Professor of Statistics (Rice), and in the Dept. of Pediatrics-
 Neurology (BCM)
Pedro J. Alvarez (alvarez@rice.edu) George R. Brown Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering and Chair
Pulickel Ajayan (ajayan@rice.edu) Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Constantine Armeniades (cda@rice.edu) Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Behnaam Azhang  (aaz@rice.edu) 
J.S. Abercrombie Professor, ECE Department Chair
Zachary T. Ball  (zb1@rice.edu) Assistant Professor in Chemistry
Andrew Barron (arb@rice.edu) Charles W. Duncan, Jr. - Welch Professor of Chemistry
Bonnie Bartel ( bartel@rice.edu) Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology,  Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Professor
Yildiz Bayazitoglu (bayaz@rice.edu) H. S. Cameron Endowed Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and Materials Science and Chair
Kathleen M. Beckingham
( kate@rice.edu)
Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Matthew R. Bennett
(
Matthew.Bennett@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor in Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Sibani Lisa Biswal (biswal@rice.edu) Assistant Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Dan Carson (dcarson@rice.edu) Dean, School of Natural Sciences, Professor of Biochemistry
and Cell Biology
John W. Clark, Jr. (jwc@rice.edu) Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Cecilia Clementi (cecilia@rice.edu) Wiess Career Development Chair, Associate Professor of
Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
Vicki Colvin (colvin@rice.edu) Professor of Chemistry
Steven J.Cox (cox@rice.edu) Professor of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Michael W. Deem (mwdeem@rice.edu) John W. Cox Professor of Biochemical and Genetic
Engineering and Physics and Astronomy
Michael Diehl (diehl@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Chemistry
Rebekah Anna Drezek (drezek@ruf.rice.edu) Professor of Bioengineering
Leonardo Duenas-Osorio
(leonardo.duenas-osorio@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Amy Dunham  (aed4@rice.edu ) Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Mark Embree (embree@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Computational and Applied
Mathematics
Mary C. Farach-Carson (farachca@rice.edu) Vice Provost for Translational BioScience, BRC Scientific Director, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell
Biology and Bioengineering
Fathi Ghorbel (ghorbel@rice.edu) Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science
Raymon M. Glantz (rmg@rice.edu) Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Richard H. Gomer (richard@rice.edu) Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Ramon Gonzalez (ramon.gonzalez@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Richard G. Gordon (rgg@rice.edu)           Professor of Geophysics and Earth Science Department Chair
K. Grande-Allen (grandeallen@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Rudy Guerra (rguerra@stat.rice.edu) Professor of Statistics
Michael C. Gustin (gustin@rice.edu) Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Jason H. Hafner (hafner@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Naomi J. Halas (halas@ece.rice.edu) Stanley C. Moore Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Jeffrey Hartgerink (jdh@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Chemistry
J. David Hellums (jhellums@rice.edu) A.J. Hartsook Professor Emeritus of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioengineering
Nat Holland (jholland@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Huey W. Huang (hwhuang@rice.edu) Sam and Helen Worden Professor of Physics and Astronomy,  
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Oleg A. Igoshin (Oleg.Igoshin@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Jeffrey Jacot (Jeff.Jacot@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Lydia E. Kavraki (kavraki@rice.edu) Noah Haring Professor of Computer Science and
Bioengineering
Caleb Kemere (caleb.kemere@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ching-Hwa Kiang (chkiang@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Thomas C. Killian (killian@rice.edu) Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Marek Kimmel (kimmel@stat.rice.edu) Professor of Statistics
Michael Kohn (hmkohn@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky (tolya@rice.edu) Professor of Chemistry
Christy F. Landes (cflandes@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Herbert Levine (herbert.levine@rice.edu) 
Hasselmann Professor of Bioengineering
Stephan Link (slink@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Jun Lou (jlou@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials
Science
Andreas Luttge (aluttge@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Earth Science and Chemistry
 Peter Lwigale (lwigale@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Jianpeng Ma (jpma@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Associate Professor
of Biochemistry, Baylor College of Medicine
Nikolaos V. Mantzaris (nman@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Angel Marti  (aam4@rice.edu )

Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering

Carrie A. Masiello (masiello@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Earth Sciences
Kathleen S. Matthews (ksm@rice.edu) Stewart Memorial Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
John. T. McDevitt (mcdevitt@rice.edu) Brown-Weiss Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering
George L. McLendon (mclendon@rice.edu )  Howard H. Hughes Provost, Professor, Chemistry
James A. McNew (mcnew@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology  
Thomas Edward Miller (tom.miller@rice.edu)     Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Daniel Mittleman (daniel@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joel L. Moake (jmoake@tmh.tmc.edu) Professor of Medicine (Baylor), Associate Director of the
Cox Laboratory
Deepak Nagrath (deepak.nagrath@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering
Luay Nakhleh (nakleh@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Edward P. Nikonowicz (edn@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Marcia O'Malley (omalleym@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and
Materials Science
John S. Olson (olson@rice.edu) Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Jose Onuchic (jonuchic@rice.edu) Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Graham A. Palmer (graham@rice.edu) Professor Emeritus, Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Ronald J. Parry (parry@rice.edu) Professor of Chemistry
George Phillips (georgep@rice.edu)
Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology and Chemistry
Nicholas Putnam (nputnam@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Amina A. Qutub (aminaq@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Robert Raphael (rraphael@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Jacob Robinson  (jtrobinson@rice.edu) 
Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering
Jennifer Rudgers (jrudgers@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Volker HW Rudolf (volker.rudolf@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ronald Sass (sass@rice.edu) Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Ann Saterbak (saterbak@rice.edu) Professor in the Practice of Engineering Education
Laura Segatori (Laura.Segatori@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and T.N. Law Assistant
Professor in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 
Evan Siemann (siemann@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Jonathan Silberg (joff@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Michael Stern (stern@rice.edu) Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Charles R. Stewart (crs@rice.edu) Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Devika Subramanian (devika@rice.edu) Professor of Computer Science
Junghae Suh (jsuh@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Jeffrey J. Tabor  (jeffrey.tabor@rice.edu ) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Yizhi Jane Tao (ytao@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Isabell Thomann  (it6@rice.edu )
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ned Thomas (elt@rice.edu) 
William & Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering  & Materials Science and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Frank K. Tittel (fkt@ece.rice.edu) J. S. AbercrombieProfessor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering
Tomasz Tkaczyk (tkaczyk@ece.rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
James M. Tour (tour@rice.edu) Chao Professor of Chemistry
Marina Vannucci (marina@rice.edu) Professor of  Statistics
Moshe Y. Vardi (vardi@rice.edu) Professor of Computer Science
Rafael Verduzco (RafaelV@rice.edu) Louis Owen Assistant Professor of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering
Daniel S. Wagner (dswagner@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
James B. Walker Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Calvin H. Ward (wardch@ruf.rice.edu) Foyt Family Professor and Chair of Civil and Environmental
Engineering
R. Bruce Weisman (weisman@rice.edu) Professor of Chemistry
Kenneth D. Whitney (kwhitney@rice.edu) Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lon J. Wilson (durango@ruf.rice.edu) Professor of Chemistry
Peter Wolynes (pwolynes@rice.edu) Professor of Chemistry
Michael S. Wong (mswong@rice.edu) Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Junrong Zheng  (junrong@rice.edu)
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Lin Zhong (lzhong@rice.edu) Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineeering
Weiwei Zhong (wzhong@its.caltech.edu) Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Kyriacos Zygourakis (kyzy@rice.edu) A.J. Hartsook Professor and Chair of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering, Professor of Bioengineering