Cell and Molecular Biology, PhD
The Department of Cell and Molecular Biology offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree. The active research opportunities in the department are mostly concentrated in two fields, developmental biology and neuroscience.
Over the course of their first two years, students will take classes aligned with their backgrounds and interests, attend seminars, and serve as teaching assistants. In their first year of the doctoral program specifically, students are expected to rotate through labs within the department and join a lab in which they will continue their dissertation research. Typically, students complete a prospectus in the third year and complete a dissertation in the fifth year.