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Genetics (MS)

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Degree Requirements

Core Courses14
Molecular Genetics
Cellular and Developmental Genetics
Population and Quantitative Genetics
Special Topics in Genetics (Journal Club)
Professionalism and Ethics
Statistical Methods For Researchers I
Teaching Requirement3
Master's Supervised Teaching
Elective Course 1, 23
See "Elective Courses" listed below
Other Elective3
"Other Elective" is determined in conjunction with the academic committee
Research Course9
Master's Thesis Research
Total Hours32
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

Select a minimum of two courses below:6
³Ò±·Ìý713Quantitative Genetics and Breeding3
³Ò±·Ìý721Genetic Data Analysis3
³Ò±·Ìý725Forest Genetics3
³Ò±·Ìý735Functional Genomics3
³Ò±·Ìý7403
³Ò±·Ìý745Quantitative Genetics In Plant Breeding1
³Ò±·Ìý7503
³Ò±·Ìý7553
³Ò±·Ìý756Computational Molecular Evolution3
³Ò±·Ìý757Quantitative Genetics Theory and Methods3
³Ò±·Ìý758Microbial Genetics & Genomics3
³Ò±·Ìý761Advanced Molecular Biology Of the Cell3
³Ò±·Ìý768Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function3
³Ò±·Ìý810Special Topics in Genetics1-6
³Ò±·Ìý820Special Problems1-6
³§°ÕÌý590Special Topics (Bioinformatics I)1-6
³§°ÕÌý590Special Topics (Bioinformatics II)1-6
±ÊµþÌý780Plant Molecular Biology3
±ÊµþÌý824Topical Problems (Topics in Plant Molecular Genetics)1-4
µþ°ä±áÌý701Macromolecular Structure3
µþ±õ°ÕÌý510Core Technologies in Molecular and Cellular Biology4
µþ±õ°ÕÌý815Advanced Special Topics1-6

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
  • Ivana Mali
  • 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
  • Christa Baker
  • Louis-Marie Bobay
  • Benjamin John Callahan
  • Carter Clinton
  • Michael Anthony Cowley
  • Nathan Crook
  • Brian Diekman
  • Colleen Jennifer Doherty
  • Abdulkerim Eroglu
  • Rafael Felipe Guerro Farias
  • Joseph Gage
  • Skylar Hopkins
  • 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
  • Kasie Raymann
  • Benjamin J. Reading
  • Ruben Rellan Alvarez
  • Adriana San Miguel Delgadillo
  • Caitlin Suzanne Smukowski Heil
  • Maria Rodgers
  • Eduardo Javier Lopez Soto
  • Casey Michelle Theriot
  • Laurianne Chantal Van Landeghem
  • Acer VanWallendael
  • Sara Villani
  • 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