Richard R. Behringer PhD

Dr. Behringer received his undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Biology at the California State University, Northridge. He then received his Ph.D. in Biology in 1986 at the University of South Carolina under the guidance of Dr. Michael Dewey, studying the genetic control of Friend viral-induced erythroleukemia using mouse aggregation chimeras. He subsequently pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine with Dr. Ralph Brinster in collaboration with Dr. Richard Palmiter at the University of Washington, using transgenic mouse approaches applied to developmental biology. In 1990, he joined the Department of Molecular Genetics (now Genetics) at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center where he holds the Ben F. Love Chair for Cancer Research.

Dr. Behringer’s research focuses on developmental mechanisms in mammals, including organogenesis, stem cells, and evolution and development. Dr. Behringer also conducts field studies on Kangaroo Island, South Australia and the Caribbean island of Trinidad. He was the director of the Molecular Embryology of the Mouse course at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2012, he will become the director of the Embryology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole. He is an editor of the 3rd and 4th editions of Manipulating the Mouse Embryo: A Laboratory Manual and co-author with Dr. Virginia Papaioannou of Mouse Phenotypes: A Handbook of Mutation Analysis both published by CSHL Press.