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2019-2020 University Catalog 
    
2019-2020 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Department of Biological Sciences (Graduate)


Website URL:

https://www.bio.purdue.edu/Academic/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

Janice Evans (Head)

 

Main Office Contact

Tammy Crider-tcrider@purdue.edu

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

  • Graduate study in Biological Sciences at Purdue University is multi-disciplinary, offering a wide variety of choices for a doctorate and master’s degrees.

    Graduate study in Biological Sciences at Purdue University is multi-disciplinary, offering a wide variety of choices for a doctorate and master’s degrees.  Areas of research include Biology Education; Cell & Molecular Biology; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Microbiology, Immunology, & Infectious Disease; Neuroscience & Physiology; Structural, Biophysical & Computational Biology.  A major advisor may be selected in any of these areas.  In addition, several interdisciplinary programs also are available in conjunction with other departments and divisions within the University. We, therefore, welcome applicants from different disciplines such as chemistry, physics, and related fields as well as students from traditional biological backgrounds.

     

Concentrations (Areas of Study):

  • Major research groups exist in the fields of Development and Disease, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Molecular Biosciences.
  • Areas of research include biology education research; cancer biology; developmental neurobiology; cell biology; ecology and conservation biology; genetics, genomics and computational biology; microbiology; molecular pathogenesis; physiology and behavior; plant biology and bioenergy; structural biology and biophysics.

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Anderson, John N.
Bolin, Jeffrey T.
Bridges, C. David
Cramer, William A.
Csonka, Leslie, N.
Dukes, Jeffrey
Fekete, Donna M.
Fernandez-Juricic, Esteban,
Gelvin, Stanton B.
Gribskov, Michael,
Hollenbeck, Peter J.
Jiang, Wen
Kihara, Daisuke,
Konieczny, Stephen F.
Kuhn, Richard J.
Lucas, Jeffrey R.
Lou, Zhao-Qing
McCann, Maureen, Caroline
Mesecar, Andrew, David
Minchella, Dennis J.
Ready, Donald F.
Rossmann, Michael G.
Rosen, Arthur
Sahley, Christie L.
Sherman, Louis A.
Staiger, Chris J.
Suter, Daniel M.
Stauffacher, Cynthia V.
Taparowsky, Elizabeth J.
Tesmer, John
Zhou, Daoguo

Associate Professor

Aguilar, Ruben, Claudio
Bartlett, Edward, L.
Bernal, Ximena, E.
Camarillo, Ignacio, G.
Chang, Henry, C.
Eichinger, David
Friedman, Alan M.
Leung, Yuk Fai
Pelaez, Nancy, j.
Paschou, Peristera
Sanders, David A.
 

Assistant Professor


Carpi, Giovanna
Chang, Leifu
Christie, Mark, R
Chubykin, Alexander, A.
Cui, Meng
Deng, Qing,
Gardner, Stephanie, M.
Guzey, S. Selcen
Kasinski, Andrea, L.
Lyon, Angeline
Mattoo, Seema,
Noinaj, Nicholas,
Olson, Matthew
Pluta, Scott
Robles, Estuardo
Searle, Catherine, L

Emeritus Faculty


Arthur Arnson
Timothy Baker
Anna Berkovitz
Alfred J. Chiscon
Martha Chiscon
Richard Dilley
Michael Forman
Richard Howard
Robert Hurst
Laurie Iten
Allan Konopka
Mark Levinthal
Levy, Morris
Sanford Ostroy
William Pak
Samuel Postlethwait
Kerry Rabenold
William Ray
Kenneth Robinson
Joseph Vanable
Peter Waser

Research Faculty

Andrey Fokin
Thomas Klose
Lan-Ying Lee
Feng Long
Zhiqing Wang
Stanislav Zakharov
Henry Zhang
 

Programs

    DoctoralMaster’s

    Courses

      Biological Sciences