Lutcher Brown Fellowship
Unfilled chairs and professorships are used to support recently tenured faculty and help accelerate the success of their research through fellowships. The fellowships are one-year, nonrecurring honorific appointments. Fellows are nominated by academic leadership and selected by the provost through a competitive process.
Lindsey Macpherson, Ph.D.
Lutcher Brown Fellowship
Associate Professor, Neuroscience, Developmental and Regenerative Biology
Lindsey Macpherson joined the UTSA faculty in 2017. Her research interests include circuit mapping, sensory neuroscience, and functional imaging techniques.
Macpherson has over 4,500 citations to date and an h-index of 14, and her research has been published in multiple refereed journals including Chemical Senses, the Journal of Dental Research, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, and Cell.
Her work has also been supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Brain Research Foundation, among other notable organizations.
She serves as director for the Macpherson Lab at UTSA, where she and her team investigate the sense of taste and the molecules, cells and signaling mechanisms involved in chemosensation from the tongue and gut to the brain.
Macpherson has chaired or been a member of thesis and dissertation committees for dozens of students. Her commitment to students was recognized with the UTSA Graduate School Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award in 2024 and the University Excellence for Service Award for her department in 2022.
In addition to the Lutcher Brown Fellowship, Macpherson is also an alumna of the National Academy of Sciences’ Kavli Fellows, and a past recipient of a Jane Coffin Childs Fellowship and NIH NRSA Fellowship.
Macpherson earned her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Sciences from Scripps Research Institute, advised by Nobel laureate Ardem Patapoutian. Prior to joining UTSA, she was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University with Charles Zuker.
