Molecular Plant Sciences
Admission Requirements There are no coursework requirements; the MPS admissions committee will be responsible for determining deficiencies in transcripts of incoming students and recommending courses at the undergraduate level to remedy such deficiencies. Apply online to the Graduate School using the electronic application and submit all required materials. Program Description The research goal of this program is to understand how plants work, from basic biochemistry to the physiology of living plants in the field, impacting fundamental understanding of plants, their productivity, and impacts on the global economy and climate. To tackle such large interdisciplinary issues, MPS brings together world experts in diverse fields of plant sciences and a range of departments, encouraging collaborations that span multiple disciplines. MPS faculty are housed in many departments, including the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Crop and Soil Sciences, Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, the School of Biological Sciences, and the School of Molecular Biosciences. Each faculty member is strongly committed to graduate education and research and runs an internationally-recognized, well-funded and dynamic research program. The program itself is designed to give you the deep and broad experiences in research required to become a highly successful researcher in highly competitive fields of plant sciences. Our philosophy of education is that scientific principles are best learned in the context of individual scientific research, and thus our program emphasizes learning through your thesis project. In particular, the Accelerated Research Ph.D. option is designed to place students in their thesis laboratories up to a year earlier than other programs. This allows students to pursue their research interests more rapidly and in greater depth, leading to higher research productivity that will help our graduates to be more competitive in their careers. Solving scientific problems in modern plant biology can involve many disciplines, from basic biochemistry and biophysics to genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, plant physiology, and ecophysiology. Individual students’ coursework is targeted to enhance their research progress while providing the broad basic scientific foundation needed to understand the wider implications of their research. Graduate Studies in Molecular Plant Sciences
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