Genetics (MR)
Degree Requirements
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | 17 | ||
| Molecular Genetics | |||
| Cellular and Developmental Genetics | |||
| Population and Quantitative Genetics | |||
| Professionalism and Ethics | |||
| Statistical Methods For Researchers I | |||
| Principles of Biochemistry | |||
| Elective Courses 1, 2 | 6 | ||
| See "Elective Courses" listed below | |||
| Other Electives | 8 | ||
| "Other Electives" are approved in conjunction with the academic committee | |||
| Total Hours | 31 | ||
| 1 | Only three hours of these courses may be counted toward the primary elective requirement. |
| 2 | Other courses that do not appear on this list may be counted if they have substantial genetics content. Please consult with the Director of Graduate Programs if you would like to count a course as an elective that is not on this list. |
Elective Courses
| Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|---|---|---|
| Select a minimum of three courses below: | 6 | ||
| ³Ò±·Ìý713 | Quantitative Genetics and Breeding | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý721 | Genetic Data Analysis | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý725 | Forest Genetics | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý735 | Functional Genomics | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý740 | Evolutionary Genetics | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý745 | Quantitative Genetics In Plant Breeding | 1 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý750 | Developmental Genetics | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý755 | Population Genetics | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý756 | Computational Molecular Evolution | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý757 | Quantitative Genetics Theory and Methods | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý758 | Microbial Genetics & Genomics | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý761 | Advanced Molecular Biology Of the Cell | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý768 | Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function | 3 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý810 | Special Topics in Genetics | 1-6 | |
| ³Ò±·Ìý820 | Special Problems | 1-6 | |
| ³§°ÕÌý590 | Special Topics (Bioinformatics I) | 1-6 | |
| ³§°ÕÌý590 | Special Topics (Bioinformatics II) | 1-6 | |
| ±ÊµþÌý780 | Plant Molecular Biology | 3 | |
| ±ÊµþÌý824 | Topical Problems (Topics in Plant Molecular Genetics) | 1-4 | |
| µþ°ä±áÌý701 | Macromolecular Structure | 3 | |
| µþ±õ°ÕÌý510 | Core Technologies in Molecular and Cellular Biology | 4 | |
| µþ±õ°ÕÌý815 | Advanced Special Topics | 1-6 | |
Faculty
Full Professors
- Jose Miguel Alonso
- Peter J. Balint-Kurti
- Rodolphe Barrangou
- David M. Bird
- Adam Joseph Birkenheuer
- Matthew Breen
- Ignazio Carbone
- Ralph A. Dean
- Ralph E. Dewey
- Robert Graham Franks
- Troy Ghashghaei
- John R. Godwin
- Major M. Goodman
- Fred L. Gould
- Candace Hope Haigler
- Linda Kay Hanley-Bowdoin
- Christine Veronica Hawkes
- James B. Holland
- Fikret Isik
- Ramsey S. Lewis
- Hsiao-Ching Liu
- Steven Lommel
- James W. Mahaffey
- Christian Maltecca
- Carolyn Jane Mattingly
- Kathryn Montgome Meurs
- Spencer V. Muse
- Natasha J. Olby
- Charles H. Opperman
- Balaji M. Rao
- Emilie Francesca Rissman
- Jean B. Ristaino
- Coby J. Schal
- Maxwell J. Scott
- Heike Inge Ada Sederoff
- Seth M. Sullivant
- William F. Thompson
- Jeffrey L. Thorne
- Jung-Ying Tzeng
- Keith R. Weninger
- Ross W. Whetten
- Brian M. Wiegmann
- Qiuyun Xiang
- Deyu Xie
- Jeffrey A. Yoder
- Zhaobang Zeng
Associate Professors
- John J Classen
- David Lawrence Aylor
- Chase Beisel
- Nicolas Emile Buchler
- Gavin Clay Conant
- Shobhan Gaddameedhi
- Steffen Heber
- Vasu Kuraparthy
- Randall Brian Langerhans
- Terri A. Long
- Marce D. Lorenzen
- John Edward Meitzen
- Susana Rita Milla-Lewis
- Nanette M. Nascone-Yoder
- Dahlia M. Nielsen
- Xinxia Peng
- Marcela Pierce
- Antonio Planchart
- David Michael Reif
- Michael Hay Reiskind
- Reade Bruce Roberts
- Michael L. Sikes
- Rosangela Sozzani
- Anna N. Stepanova
- Yihui Zhou
Assistant Professors
- Hamid Ashrafi
- Benjamin John Callahan
- Michael Anthony Cowley
- Colleen Jennifer Doherty
- Rafael Felipe Guerro Farias
- Amanda Marie Hulse
- Albert Jun Qi Keung
- Manuel Kleiner
- Caroline Laplante
- Wusheng Liu
- Anna Michelle Locke
- Elizabeth Lucas
- Kurt Marsden
- Santosh Kumar Mishra
- Casey C. Nestor
- Benjamin J. Reading
- Ruben Rellan Alvarez
- Adriana San Miguel Delgadillo
- Caitlin Suzanne Smukowski Heil
- Casey Michelle Theriot
- Laurianne Chantal Van Landeghem
- Justin Graham Alexander Whitehill
- Christina Zakas
Emeritus Professors
- Roderick M Rejesus
- William Reid Atchley
- Stephanie E. Curtis
- Eugene Eisen
- Charles S. Levings III
- Todd Robert Klaenhammer
- Wesley Edwin Kloos
- Dale F. Matzinger
- Wendell Herbert McKenzie
- John G. Scandalios
- Henry E. Schaffer
- Ron Ross Sederoff
- Charles William Stuber
- Earl A. Wernsman
Adjunct professors
- Robert R .Anholt
- Trudy F. MacKay
- Alison Anne Motsinger-Reif
- Nadia Singh