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Genetics (PhD)
Degree Requirements
GN 810 Special Topics in Genetics is to be repeated twice to meet the 2 credit hour requirement.
Only three hours of these courses may be counted toward the primary elective requirement.
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
Course List | Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
|---|
| Select at least three courses below: |
| GN 713 | Quantitative Genetics and Breeding | 3 |
| GN 721 | Genetic Data Analysis | 3 |
| GN 725 | Forest Genetics | 3 |
| GN 735 | Functional Genomics | 3 |
| GN 740 | 3 |
| GN 745 | Quantitative Genetics In Plant Breeding | 1 |
| GN 750 | 3 |
| GN 755 | 3 |
| GN 756 | Computational Molecular Evolution | 3 |
| GN 757 | Quantitative Genetics Theory and Methods | 3 |
| GN 758 | Microbial Genetics & Genomics | 3 |
| GN 761 | Advanced Molecular Biology Of the Cell | 3 |
| GN 768 | Nucleic Acids: Structure and Function | 3 |
| GN 810 | Special Topics in Genetics | 1-6 |
| GN 820 | Special Problems (Professional Development) | 1-6 |
| ST 590 | Special Topics (Bioinformatics I) | 1-6 |
| ST 590 | Special Topics (Bioinformatics II) | 1-6 |
| PB 780 | Plant Molecular Biology | 3 |
| PB 824 | Topical Problems (Topics in Plant Molecular Genetics) | 1-4 |
| BCH 701 | Macromolecular Structure | 3 |
| BIT 510 | Core Technologies in Molecular and Cellular Biology | 4 |
| BIT 815 | Advanced Special Topics | 1-6 |
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
- 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
- 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
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