Joe Taube, PhD

Bio:

Dr. Taube has served as Graduate Program Director for Biology since 2020, helping to oversee the expansion of the doctoral program, re-structuring of the program curriculum, and the addition of multiple initiatives to enhance intellectual community. Recruited to Baylor in 2015, he founded a lab dedicated to tackling drivers of mortality in breast cancer through the understanding of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity and by characterizing the mechanism of action for novel molecules capable of targeting cancer stem cells. In addition to 2 master’s students, he has mentored 9 doctoral students, 4 of whom have completed their degrees.

Dr. Taube earned his Ph.D from the University of Texas - Health Science Center in Houston working with Dr. Michelle Barton studying fundamental interactions between transcription factors and chromatin in the context of embryonic stem cell specification and hepatocellular carcinoma. He continued his training a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Sendurai Mani at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston studying the contribution of epithelial-mesenchymal transition to breast cancer metastasis and the role of epigenetic regulators for this process.

What nominators say:

Dr. Taube has provided exceptional leadership, vision, and service to our doctoral program, and his work as Graduate Program Director has had a profound and measurable impact on the strength, culture, and trajectory of graduate education in Biology.