# Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin **Entity class:** Academic department **Public account:** [@texas_IB](https://x.com/texas_IB) The **Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin** studies living systems from genes and microbes through organisms, populations, networks, and ecosystems. It is part of the [[wiki/College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin|College of Natural Sciences]] and is the primary departmental home of [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] and [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]]. Its importance to the collection lies in the union of biology with mathematical, statistical, computational, and infectious-disease methods. That institutional setting supports the movement from biological network research to operational outbreak detection, forecasting, and intervention analysis. ## Relationships - **part of:** [[wiki/College of Natural Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin|College of Natural Sciences]] at [[wiki/University of Texas at Austin|UT Austin]]. - **faculty and laboratory:** [[wiki/Lauren Ancel Meyers|Lauren Ancel Meyers]] and [[wiki/Meyers Lab|Meyers Lab]]. - **research centers:** [[wiki/Center for Pandemic Decision Science|Center for Pandemic Decision Science]], [[wiki/epiENGAGE Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics|epiENGAGE]], and [[wiki/John Ring LaMontagne Center for Infectious Disease|LaMontagne Center]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [About the Department — Integrative Biology](https://integrativebio.utexas.edu/about-department) (accessed 2026-09-23). - [Lauren Ancel Meyers — Integrative Biology](https://integrativebio.utexas.edu/directory/lauren-ancel-meyers) (accessed 2026-09-23).