This course will provide students with essential hands-on experience in experimental design, data collection, analysis, and science communication. Students will have the opportunity to think critically and creatively about biology and to develop research competencies. Students will work with a mentor to develop a project that makes a unique scientific contribution and will communicate their research to a broader audience at the University's Undergraduate Research Symposium or similar.

Independent research for qualified graduates under the direction of a faculty member within the Biology Department.

A weekly conference in which students present reports covering various aspects of Integrative Biology. May be repeated for credit.

Integrative Biology seeks to understand how genetic, cellular, and developmental processes give rise to organismal phenotypes and how changes in these processes over time contribute to the evolution of form and function. In this course, graduate students will learn principles of genetics, cell, developmental, and organismal biology and apply this knowledge towards answering fundamental questions in biology.

A weekly conference arranged around a current topic. May be repeated for credit. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

This weekly colloquium provides a forum for exploring cutting-edge research in fundamental neuroscience. The course format includes journal club discussions of recent high-impact publications, as well as presentations of ongoing research by both students and faculty members.

This course introduces grad students to a breadth and depth of concepts and theories in modern ecology and evolutionary biology.. The course is taught by a different BIOL faculty each spring, with different faculty rotating into the course in alternate years, providing expertise in molecular population genetics, genomics, phylogenetics, integrative biology, speciation, microevolution, life-history evolution, and mating systems.

This course will integrate lectures and workshops to teach students how to analyze publicly available single-cell 'omic datasets relevant to their research interests, which students will perform as part of a scaffolded project. The course will cover a variety of methods, with a focus on single-cell RNA-seq.

For master's thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.

Independent research with a member of the Biology faculty in preparation for thesis or dissertation research.