Ph.D. 在植物 & 分子 and Cellular Biology
项目概述
The 分子 and Cellular Biology program offers graduate study leading to the Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies in molecular and cellular biology.
Ph.D. study and research are guided by a doctoral advisory committee. A great deal of the responsibility for determining the program of study is left to the committee. In addition to a core MCB curriculum, additional courses in 植物生物学 are required.
然而, a required core curriculum consists of a year of Biochemistry (CHEM 5901, 5902), Advanced Cell Biology (MCB 7600), 分子生物学(MCB 7200), 分子 and Cellular Biology Laboratory (MCB 7300), Biological 研究 and Science Ethics (PBIO 5170) and Scientific Writing (PBIO 5180).
Students are required to register for MCB 7410 研讨会 in 分子 and Cellular Biology when offered and must present at least one seminar each year. Students must receive doctoral advisory committee approval of a written research proposal in the program and pass written and oral qualifying examination. You must defend your final dissertation before the doctoral advisory committee at a public forum. In addition, you are required to present the dissertation research as a program seminar.
职业发展机会
有博士学位的学生.D. in plant biology could work at a college or university, teaching or doing research in a variety of specialty areas. He or she also could work in private industry, or governmental agencies dealing with agriculture, 园艺, 花卉栽培, biotechnology or pharmaceuticals, conservation agencies and museums of natural history, environmental consulting firms, 食品公司, 植物园, 和arboreta.
建议 & 学习计划
A student may be co-advised by two PBIO-MCB tenure-track faculty members.
学生可以换导师, but only after approval of the current and potential adviser and the 研究生 Chair. If a student leaves his or her adviser, 不管出于什么原因, he or she must find another adviser within four weeks or before the start of the following semester. An unadvised student cannot remain in the PBIO-MCB graduate program beyond this time limit.
学位要求
课程
成功完成:
- PBIO 5170 Biological 研究 and Science Ethics (1)
- CHEM 5901 and CHEM 5902 Biochemistry (4, each)
- 分子生物学(3)
- MCB 7300 分子 and Cellular Biology Laboratory (3)
- MCB 7600 Advanced Cell Biology (3)
- PBIO 5180 Writing in Life 科学 (3)
- PBIO 5150: Statistical Methods in 植物生物学 (4)
or PBIO 5160: Problem Solving with Bioinformatics Tools (3) - Two additional courses in PBIO
学分
Each student is required to complete a minimum of 30 graded graduate credit hours.
平均绩点
学生必须保持3分.0 平均绩点 to remain in the 分子 and Cellular Biology program and to graduate. If a student receives a grade of “C+” or lower in more than two courses, he or she will be terminated from the MCB program.
研究 & 研讨会
A minimum of 60 credits hours of research (PBIO 8950).
Successful completion of MCB (7410) each year.
综合考试
A student must pass a 综合考试 composed of written and oral sections no later than the third year (i.e., ninth semester) or face dismissal from the program.
论文
A student must successfully complete a research dissertation, with the intent of submitting multiple publications to peer-reviewed journals.
口头论文
A student must orally defend a research dissertation.
博士咨询委员会 (DAC)
The 博士咨询委员会 will advise the student in the PBIO-MCB program of courses and requirements, conduct the comprehensive exam, approve the dissertation research proposal, 并进行Ph.D. exam for approval of the dissertation.
The committee will be chaired by the student’s adviser and must have at least four faculty members, at least three (3) of whom are 分子 and Cellular Biology faculty.
- At least one faculty member must not be associated with the graduate program of the home 环境 & 植物生物系.
- Names must be submitted to the 研究生 Chair for Approval (论文 Committee Information form) and submission to the Dean of the College of Arts & 科学.