Research Clusters

In addition to Concentration Areas within the Biological Sciences Program, several groups of faculty with shared research interests have formed “research clusters” to foster collaborative projects and enriched opportunities for graduate students.

Students apply to the Biological Sciences graduate program and one Concentration Areas that contain faculty from the research cluster of interest. Students may join a research cluster once on campus, and are encouraged to explore the examples listed below to understand potential opportunities.

• Center for Comparative and Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (C-CEBH)

• Developmental Biology

• Evolutionary Genetics

• Host-Pathogen Interactions Research Cluster

• Plant Systems: Cell Biology and Genomics

• Virology

• Genetics with Eukaryotic Model System (GEMS)