Examples of Courses for Areas of Concentration
Possible faculty mentors are listed in parentheses.
*Note: BIOL 40 requires CHEM 51-52/57-58 as a prerequisite.
Behavior and Neurobiology (Calsbeek, Hill, Hoppa, Laidre, Nadell, McPeek, ter Hofstede, Witters):
| BIOL 23 | Social Evolution: Cooperation and Construction Among Animal Architects | |
| BIOL 27 | Animal Behavior | |
| BIOL 32 | Animal Communication | |
| BIOL 35 | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | |
| BIOL 37 | Endocrinology | |
| BIOL 74.01 | Development, Plasticity and Dysfunction of the Synapse | |
| BIOL 74.02 | Diseases of the Nervous System | |
Biochemistry (Bickel, Dolph, Griffin, Lee, Schaller, Sloboda, Smith, Witters):
Cell Biology (Amodeo, Bezanilla, Bickel, Dolph, Griffin, Grotz, He, Hoppa, Lee, Schaller, Sloboda, Smith, Witters):
Development (Griffin, He, Jack, Peterson):
Ecology (Ayres, Calsbeek, Chen, Cottingham, Laidre, Pries, McPeek, Nadell, ter Hofstede):
Evolutionary Ecology (Calsbeek, Laidre, McPeek, Nadell, ter Hofstede):
Genetics (Amodeo, Bezanilla, Bickel, Dolph, Griffin, Guerinot, He, Jack, Lee, McClung):
Genomics, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Cottingham, McClung, McPeek, Zhaxybayeva):
and appropriate Computer Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Sciences courses
Human Biology (Dolph, Hill, Hoppa, Smith, Witters):
Molecular Ecology (Calsbeek, McPeek, Nadell):
Molecular Evolution (McPeek, Peterson, Zhaxybayeva):
Paleobiology (Peterson):
Physiology and Organismal Biology (Ayres, Calsbeek, Hill, Hoppa, McPeek, ter Hofstede, Witters):
Plant Biology (Ayres, Bezanilla, Guerinot, Jack, McClung, Schaller):