Department of Biological Sciences (Graduate)

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Website URL:

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

Department/School Head:

Stephen Konieczny (Interim Head)

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 doctorate and master’s degrees.

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.
Fekete, Donna M.
Fernandez-Juricic, Esteban,
Gelvin, Stanton B.
Gribskov, Michael,
Hollenbeck, Peter J.
Kihara, Daisuke,
Konieczny, Stephen F.
Kuhn, Richard J.
Levy, Morris
Lucas, Jeffrey R.
McCann, Maureen, Caroline
Mesecar, Andrew, David
Minchella, Dennis J.
Pak, William L.
Rabenold, Kerry N.
Ready, Donald F.
Rossmann, Michael G.
Sahley, Christie L.
Sherman, Louis A.
Staiger, Chris J.
Stauffacher, Cynthia V.
Taparowsky, Elizabeth J.
Zhou, Daoguo

Associate Professor

Aguilar, Ruben, Claudio
Bartlett, Edward, L.
Camarillo, Ignacio, G.
Chang, Henry, C.
Friedman, Alan M.
Iten, Laurie E.
Jiang, Wen,
Leung, Yuk Fai
Lou, Zhao-Qing,
Pelaez, Nancy, j.
Sanders, David A.
Suter, Daniel M.

Assistant Professor

Bernal, Ximena, E.
Christie, Mark, R
Chubykin, Alexander, A.
Deng, Qing,
Emery, Nancy, C.
Gardner, Stephanie, M.
Karcher, Susan J.
Kasinski, Andrea, L.
Lanman, Jason, K
Mattoo, Seema,
Noinaj, Nicholas,
Searle, Catherine, L

Emeritus Faculty

Joseph Altman
Arthur Arnson
Timothy Baker
Anna Berkovitz
Alfred J. Chiscon
Martha Chiscon
Frederick Crane
Richard Dilley
Michael Forman
Robert Hurst
Allan Konopka
Mark Levinthal
Sanford Ostroy
Samuel Postlethwait
William Ray
Kenneth Robinson
Irwin Tessman
Joseph Vanable
Jacob Wiebers

Research Faculty

Andrey Fokin
Judy Hallett
Joyce Jose
Lan-Ying Lee
Erica Zbornik

Programs

• Biological Sciences, PHD

• Biological Sciences, MS

Courses

• BIOL 50000 - Modular Upper-Division Laboratory Course
• BIOL 51100 - Introduction To X-Ray Crystallography
• BIOL 51500 - Molecular Genetics
• BIOL 51600 - Molecular Biology Of Cancer
• BIOL 51700 - Molecular Biology: Proteins
• BIOL 52900 - Bacterial Physiology
• BIOL 53100 - Parasitology
• BIOL 53300 - Medical Microbiology
• BIOL 53601 - Biological And Structural Aspects Of Drug Design And Action
• BIOL 53700 - Immunobiology
• BIOL 53800 - Molecular, Cellular, And Developmental Neurobiology
• BIOL 54100 - Molecular Genetics Of Bacteria
• BIOL 54200 - Modular Upper-Division Laboratory Course
• BIOL 54601 - Topics In Infectious Diseases
• BIOL 54900 - Microbial Ecology
• BIOL 55000 - Plant Molecular Biology
• BIOL 55001 - Eukaryotic Molecular Biology
• BIOL 55900 - Endocrinology
• BIOL 56200 - Neural Systems
• BIOL 56310 - Protein Bioinformatics
• BIOL 56600 - Developmental Biology
• BIOL 56700 - Laboratory In Developmental Biology
• BIOL 57300 - The Molecular Biology Of Animal Cells
• BIOL 58000 - Evolution
• BIOL 58010 - Teaching Evolution: Online Course
• BIOL 58210 - Ecological Statistics
• BIOL 58500 - Ecology
• BIOL 58705 - Animal Communication
• BIOL 59100 - Field Ecology
• BIOL 59200 - The Evolution Of Behavior
• BIOL 59500 - Special Assignments
• BIOL 59700 - Sex And Evolution
• BIOL 59900 - Quantitative Physiology
• BIOL 60000 - Bioenergetics
• BIOL 60200 - Cellular Neurobiology
• BIOL 61100 - Crystallography Of Macromolecules
• BIOL 62000 - Advanced Topics In Eukaryotic Cell Biology
• BIOL 64700 - Membrane Protein Structural Biology
• BIOL 65001 - Techniques In Molecular Biology
• BIOL 65200 - Advanced Ecology Discussion
• BIOL 65300 - Advanced Evolution Discussion
• BIOL 66200 - Seminar Methods And Professional Development I
• BIOL 66300 - Seminar Methods And Professional Development II
• BIOL 68100 - Advanced Eukaryotic Genetics
• BIOL 69100 - Biological Research Methods
• BIOL 69500 - Special Assignments
• BIOL 69600 - Seminar
• BIOL 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• BIOL 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

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