Professor, Dept. Biology and Biochemistry
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In addition to his appointment in Biology and Biochemistry, George Fox is an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering, a member of the WM Keck Center for Computational Biology and the Institute of Molecular Biology. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Microbiology. He has acted as primary mentor for more than 70 graduate and post-doctoral students and has published more than 100 peer review papers in the fields of bioinformatics, molecular evolution and molecular biology.
Dr. Fox was a co-discoverer of the Archaea and his early bioinformatics studies on ribosomal RNA sequence were central in the elucidation of evolutionary relationships between bacterial genera in general. He was also a pioneer in the use of comparative techniques to predict RNA secondary structure. His laboratory conducts both basic and applied research. Much of this work is highly interdisciplinary and as a result Dr. Fox’s group collaborates with a number of other groups at the University of Houston including Dr. Richard C. Willson in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr. Yuriy Fofanov in the Department of Computer Science, Dr. Xiaolin Gao in the Department of Chemistry as well as off campus groups including Dr. Duane Pierson at NASA’s Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center and Dr. Janet Siefert of the Department of Statistics at Rice University.
Dr. Fox holds a PhD degree in chemical engineering from Syracuse University, and conducted postdoctoral research with Dr. Carl Woese at the University of Illinois. Most recently he spent a sabbatical year with Dr. George Weinstock at the Baylor College of Medicine Human Genome Sequencing Center.
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