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New Mexico State University
Office of the Vice President for Research

Biosciences Cluster

A revolution in the biosciences has dissolved disciplinary boundaries by defining a new research program that draws on the expertise not only of basic and applied biologists, biochemists, biomedical, and agricultural researchers and practitioners, but also physicists, information and cognitive scientists, engineers, and social scientists. NMSU has created the Systems Biosciences Cluster, which incorporates researchers working in such diverse areas as infectious disease in humans, animals, and plants; cancer; drug development; public health; environmental biology and ecosystems; genetics; crop and livestock breeding; bioinformatics; neuroscience; and comparative genomics, metabolomics, and proteomics. The Cluster provides a new basis for NMSU’s participation in the New Mexico Consortium for Bioresearch and the NIH-supported NM Idea Network for Biomedical Research Excellence, as well as many other ongoing collaborative efforts within New Mexico and beyond.

Biosciences Cluster Leader:


Biosciences Sub-Clusters and Co-Chairs:

Biodiversity, Co-evolution and Speciation:


Host-Pathogens: Disease, Host-Symbiont: Development

Bioinformatics & Computational Methodologies


Human Population Based Studies


Cognitive, Neural and Behavioral Sciences


Molecular Targets


Global Change in Biogeography, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function


Organic/Sustainable Agriculture

  • Joe Ellington, Entomology, Plant Pathology & Weed Science, (505)646-2037


SPIRIT: Science Preparation in Interdisciplinary Research, Instruction and Training