Biological Sciences

Master of Arts
Doctor of Philosophy

Graduate degrees in the biological sciences are offered by the School of Biological Sciences. The three degree programs—ecology, evolution, and behavior ; microbiology ; and plant biology —are described in each program section. Each program is administered by its own Graduate Studies Committee.

Facilities for Graduate Work

The primary facilities for graduate instruction and research are provided in the Biological Laboratories building, the Louise and James Robert Moffett Molecular Biology Building, the Neural Molecular Science Building, the J. T. Patterson Laboratories Building, and at the Marine Science Institute at Port Aransas. Additional facilities include the Life Science Library, the Brackenridge Field Laboratory, the Stengl “Lost Pines” Biological Station, the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, the Plant Resources Center, the Texas Memorial Museum, the Texas Natural Science Center, the Culture Collection of Algae, the Institute of Reproductive Biology, the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, the Institute for Neuroscience, the Environmental Science Institute, and the Animal Resources Center.

Areas of Study

Graduate study supervised by the School of Biological Sciences is available in areas of specialization that cross the boundaries between the biological disciplines as classically defined. Among the broad areas of specialization are: behavioral biology, biological chemistry, biophysics, cellular and molecular biology, cytology and cytogenetics, developmental biology, ecology, population biology, evolution, host-parasite biology, human biology, immunobiology, genetics, molecular genetics, neurobiology, nutrition, paleontology, physiology, systematics, and virology. Additional areas of specialization are listed in the sections for the three graduate programs.