Dr. Hubert Amrein

Biography

Hubert Amrein joined Texas A&M University College of Medicine in 2009 as a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Genetics. He served as the associate department head from 2012 to 2018 and was appointed executive associate dean for research in September 2018. His research primarily focuses on neural coding, chemosensory perception, and neuropeptide signaling using insect model systems. Amrein earned his PhD from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and conducted postdoctoral studies with notable researchers such as Dr. Tom Maniatis at Harvard University and Dr. Richard Axel at Columbia University. Prior to his role at Texas A&M University, he was a faculty member at Duke University School of Medicine from 1998 to 2009. His laboratory investigates how animals detect and discriminate among thousands of chemical signals that flood their olfactory and taste organs, utilizing Drosophila as a model organism due to its structurally and functionally similar chemosensory systems to mammals.

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