Integrative Biosciences (PhD)

Integrative Biosciences Program | College of Science and Mathematics

Program Requirements

Complete 60 credits from a minimum of nine courses including two core courses, five track courses, two to three electives, and 32 credits of dissertation.

Doctoral Candidacy: Pass a written qualifying exam in four topics as well as an oral qualifying exam which includes the defense of their dissertation proposal.
Dissertation: Compose and defend a dissertation based on original research.

Statute of limitations: Eight years.

Course Requirements

Core Courses (5 Credits)

INTR-D 601 - Integrative Biosciences Graduate Program Seminar 2 Credit(s)
BIOL 650 - Scientific Communication 3 Credit(s)

Track Courses (16 to 18 Credits)

Complete five courses.

Three courses must be from your declared track.

One course must be taken in each of the other two tracks.

Electives (6 to 8 Credits)

Complete two to three courses from any of the track courses above and from below.

BIOL 607 - An Introduction to Computational Data Analysis for Biology 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 615 - Immunology 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 626 - Molecular Genetics of Bacteria 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 627 - Bacterial Physiology and Functional/Comparative Genomics 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 642 - Biogeography 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 666 - Mammalian Toxicology 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 674 - Cell Signaling 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 677 - Advanced Eukaryotic Genetics 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 681 - Network Biology 3 Credit(s)
BIOL 691 - Seminar in Developmental Biology 3 Credit(s)
CHEM 658 - Medicinal Chemistry 4 Credit(s)
MATH 303 Introduction to Mathematical Biology 3 Credit(s) - see Undergraduate Catalog
CS 671 - Machine Learning 3 Credit(s)
ENVSCI 611 - Applied Statistics 3 Credit(s)
PHYSIC 602 - Laser Optics Laboratory 4 Credit(s)
PHYSIC 607 - Experiments in Squishy Physics 4 Credit(s)
PHYSIC 632 - Advanced Laser Optics (with Lab) 4 Credit(s)
PHYSIC 635 - Physics on the Back of an Envelope (Estimation in Physics) 4 Credit(s)

Dissertation Course (32 Credits)

Complete at least 32 of dissertation research by registering for a science dissertation course to be approved by your faculty advisor.