The Biology Department is part of a vast community of life scientists at TAMU, which offers a broad array of courses, research facilities, and potential collaborations. Faculty with life-science interests are in the College of Agriculture, the College of Geosciences, the College of Liberal Arts, the School of Rural Public Health, the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and the Health Science Center.

Biology faculty participate in several cross-cutting interdisciplinary programs, including:

Alliance for Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Systems Biology

Applied Biodiversity Science-IGERT

Aquaculture Research and Teaching Facilities

Center for Biological Clocks Research

CICHAZ: Centro de Investigación Científica de las Huastecas "Aguazarca"

Costa Rica Center

Developmental Biology Interest Group

Faculty of Genetics

Faculty of Reproductive Biology

Interdisciplinary Research Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)

Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience

Molecular and Environmental Plant Sciences (MEPS)

Program for the Biology of Filamentous Fungi (PBOFF)

The Program in Marine Biology,