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福利逼站 Catalog 2024-2025

EXPLORE PROGRAMS

Biology (PhD)

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Degree Requirements

Students may choose from the degree tracks below to complete coursework within a focus area.

Degrees earned will be distributed as: "Doctor of Philosophy聽in Biology" without track specifications.

Core Courses3
础贰颁听502
Introduction to Biological Research
笔贬滨听816
Introduction to Research Ethics
Additional Courses69
"Additional Courses" are determined in conjunction with the academic committee to meet the 72 total hours
Total Hours72

Aquaculture and Aquatic Sciences Track

Quantitative Requirement3
Select one of the following courses:
厂罢听511
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
辞谤听厂罢听512
 Statistical Methods For Researchers II
叠滨罢听815
Advanced Special Topics 2
础贰颁听510
Machine Learning Approaches in Biological Sciences
厂罢听505
Applied Nonparametric Statistics
叠惭础听567
Modeling of Biological Systems
Restricted Elective6
Select two of the following courses:
AEC/ENT 509
Ecology and Conservation of Freshwater Invertebrates
础贰颁听515
Fish Physiology
础贰颁听519
Freshwater Ecology
础贰颁听624
Advanced Fisheries Science
础贰颁听592
Special Topics in Applied Ecology (Management of Small Impoundments)
础贰颁听592
Special Topics in Applied Ecology (Aquatic Plant Ecology)
础贰颁听592
Special Topics in Applied Ecology (Advanced Biology of Fishes)
础贰颁听624
Advanced Fisheries Science
础贰颁听710
础贰颁听726
叠惭础听772
Biomathematics II
贵奥听511
Human Dimensions of Wildlife and Fisheries
惭贰础听549
Principles of Biological Oceanography
狈搁听595
Special Topics in Natural Resources
罢翱齿听715
Environmental Toxicology
窜翱听524
Total Hours9
2

叠滨罢听815聽or any Bioinformatics course determined in conjunction with the academic committee.

Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Track

Quantitative Biology Requirement3
Select one of the following courses:
厂罢听511
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
辞谤听厂罢听512
 Statistical Methods For Researchers II
叠滨罢听815
Advanced Special Topics 2
础贰颁听510
Machine Learning Approaches in Biological Sciences
Restricted Elective3
Select one course from the following:
叠滨翱听592
Topical Problems (Capstone Course in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology)
骋狈听701
Molecular Genetics
骋狈听702
Cellular and Developmental Genetics
骋狈听750
Biotechnology Requirement4
Select one course below determined in conjunction with the academic committee based on thesis research
叠滨罢听510
Core Technologies in Molecular and Cellular Biology
叠滨罢听595
Special Topics
Total Hours10
2

叠滨罢听815聽or any Bioinformatics course determined in conjunction with the academic committee.

Ecology and Evolution Track

Quantitative Requirement3
厂罢听511
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
辞谤听厂罢听512
 Statistical Methods For Researchers II
础贰颁听510
Machine Learning Approaches in Biological Sciences
厂罢听505
Applied Nonparametric Statistics
叠惭础听567
Modeling of Biological Systems
Ecology Requirement3
础贰颁听503
Foundations of Ecology
础贰颁听519
Freshwater Ecology
础贰颁听718
Community Ecology
础贰颁听761
Conservation and Climate Science
BIO/BMA 560
Population Ecology
惭贰础听752
Marine Plankton Ecology
Evolution Requirement3
叠滨翱听570
Evolutionary Ecology
贰狈罢听591
Special Topics In Entomology
骋狈听703
Population and Quantitative Genetics
骋狈听713
Quantitative Genetics and Breeding
骋狈听740
骋狈听757
Quantitative Genetics Theory and Methods
笔叠听503
Systematic Botany
笔叠听545
Paleobotany
Total Hours9

Forensic Sciences Track

Restricted Electives4
叠滨翱听520Skeletal Biological Laboratory Methods in Human Identification & Cold Cases3
叠滨翱听811Forensic Sciences Seminar1
Quantitative Requirements9
厂罢听511
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
厂罢听512
Statistical Methods For Researchers II
厂罢听540
Applied Bayesian Analysis
Total Hours17

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

  • Every student is聽required to complete training logs. Many of the modules can be completed while taking the聽叠滨翱听520聽course. Please contact the Forensic Sciences Concentration Chair for additional information.
  • Students are also聽required to start the Training Case Record Form after their first year and/or after taking聽叠滨翱听520, whichever comes first. Please contact the Forensic Sciences Concentration Chair for additional information.
  • Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe Level II Certification is聽strongly recommended but not required- costs associated with this exam are the student鈥檚 responsibility.

Physiology and Behavior Track

Quantitative Biology Requirement3
厂罢听511
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
辞谤听厂罢听512
 Statistical Methods For Researchers II
叠滨罢听815
Advanced Special Topics 1
础贰颁听510
Machine Learning Approaches in Biological Sciences
厂罢听505
Applied Nonparametric Statistics
叠惭础听567
Modeling of Biological Systems
Restricted Electives6
Select two of the following courses:
AEC/ENT 509
Ecology and Conservation of Freshwater Invertebrates
础贰颁听515
Fish Physiology
础贰颁听519
Freshwater Ecology
础贰颁听624
Advanced Fisheries Science
础贰颁听592
Special Topics in Applied Ecology (Management of Small Impoundments)
础贰颁听592
Special Topics in Applied Ecology (Aquatic Plant Ecology)
础贰颁听592
Special Topics in Applied Ecology (Advanced Biology of Fishes)
础贰颁听624
Advanced Fisheries Science
础贰颁听710
础贰颁听726
叠惭础听772
Biomathematics II
贵奥听511
Human Dimensions of Wildlife and Fisheries
惭贰础听549
Principles of Biological Oceanography
狈搁听595
Special Topics in Natural Resources
罢翱齿听715
Environmental Toxicology
窜翱听524
Additional Courses63
Additional courses are determined in conjunction with the academic committee to meet the 72 total hours
Total Hours72
1

Students may take聽笔贬滨听816 Introduction to Research Ethics聽or equivalent to meet this requirement.

Integrative Biology Track

This concentration is open to MS and PhD students who do not fit academically within the other Biology concentrations, or who integrate across multiple concentrations. Coursework is determined in consultation with your PhD mentor and committee and is approved by the DGP.

  • David Derek Aday
  • David Alan Andow
  • Betty L. Black
  • Russell J. Borski
  • David Buchwalter
  • Jeffrey A. Buckel
  • JoAnn Marie Burkholder
  • Ignazio Carbone
  • Jaime A. Collazo
  • William Gregory Cope
  • Harry Valentine Daniels III
  • Robert R. Dunn
  • David B. Eggleston
  • John R. Godwin
  • Kevin Gross
  • Craig A. Harms
  • Jeffrey M. Hinshaw
  • Rebecca Elizabeth Irwin
  • Thomas J. Kwak
  • Thomas M. Losordo
  • Carolyn Jane Mattingly
  • Heather B. Patisaul
  • Luis Alonso Ramirez-Ulate
  • Ann Helen Ross
  • Bruce A Schulte
  • Mary Higby Schweitzer
  • David R. Tarpy
  • Scott M. Belcher
  • Shobhan Gaddameedhi
  • Adam Hartstone-Rose
  • Randall Brian Langerhans
  • John Edward Meitzen
  • Nanette M. Nascone-Yoder
  • Marianne Niedzlek-Feaver
  • Antonio Planchart
  • Reade Bruce Roberts
  • Jie Cao
  • Khara Deanne Grieger
  • Nathan James Hostetter
  • Kurt Marsden
  • Jamian Krishna Pacifici
  • Seema Nayan Sheth
  • Caitlin Suzanne Smukowski Heil
  • Joy Little Snowden
  • Bradley William Taylor
  • Christopher Scott Walker
  • Elsa Youngsteadt
  • Jennifer L. Campbell
  • Louis Broaddus Daniel III
  • Miles Dean Engell
  • Miriam G. Ferzli
  • Jesse Robert Fischer
  • Terry Allen Gates
  • William Miller Johnstone III
  • Jane L. Lubischer
  • Erin Alison McKenney
  • Lisa M. Paciulli
  • Lisa D. Parks
  • Martha Burford Reiskind
  • Damian Shea
  • Adrian Alan Smith
  • Lindsay E. Zanno
  • Peter T. Bromley
  • Billy J. Copeland
  • Frederick T. Corbin
  • Phillip D. Doerr
  • William C. Grant
  • Robert M. Grossfeld
  • Thurman L. Grove
  • Harold F. Heatwole
  • Joseph E. Hightower
  • Richard A. Lancia
  • Richard L. Noble
  • Kenneth H. Pollock
  • James Alan Rice Jr.
  • John F. Roberts
  • Damian Shea
  • Theodore R. Simons
  • Herbert A. Underwood
  • John G. Vandenbergh
  • Thomas G. Wolcott
  • Robert R. Anholt
  • Tyler Ray Black
  • Arthur E. Bogan
  • Heather Evans
  • John G. Boreman Jr.
  • David T. Cobb
  • Louis Broaddus Daniel III
  • Mitchell J. Eaton
  • John Jeffrey Govoni
  • Nicholas M. Haddad
  • Andrew Bittinger Heckert
  • Ryan J. Heise
  • Corinne J. Kendall
  • Reid W. Laney
  • Trudy F. MacKay
  • Alexa J. McKerrow
  • Gerard McMahon
  • James Adiel Morris Jr.
  • Jennifer R Runkle
  • Megan Elizabeth Serr
  • Rowland M. Shelley
  • Kyle W. Shertzer
  • Adrian Alan Smith
  • Seth Patrick Stapleton
  • Bryan Lynn Stuart
  • Adam J. Terando

Assistant Professors

  • Christa Baker
  • Carter K. Clinton
  • Alexandra Grace Duffy
  • Natalia Dugue-Wilckens
  • Corey Dunn
  • Nadya Rose Mamoozadeh
  • Maria L. Rodgers
  • Julie K Wesp

Adjunct Professors

  • Christian Farrell Kammerer
  • Carol Price
  • Candice Small

Teaching Associate Professor

  • Jennifer Landin

Adjunct Associate Professor

  • Guohong Cui