Genetics and Genomics (CLAS) < University of Florida

Program Information

Program Co-Directors: Doug Soltis and Maurice Swanson
Program Coordinator: Samantha Brooks

The University of Florida Genetics Institute is a multi-college, multi-faceted research center which offers the a degree program leading to the Ph.D. in Genetics and Genomics. Minimum requirements for this degree are available in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog.

What defines the Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program is the philosophy that good geneticists are integrative geneticists, who incorporate many different subfields of genetics into their work. Accordingly, faculty interests and graduate research opportunities include a wide range of areas: advances in gene therapy, understanding the maintenance of genetic variation, understanding plant immune responses, developing improved algorithms for identifying regulatory motifs in DNA sequences, and the challenges of bioethics to strategies for controlling malaria. Due to the fundamental nature of genetics in the life sciences, our training program is distributed across several colleges at UF, including but not limited to the College of Medicine, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the College of Agricultural and the Life Sciences, and the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Graduate Program Overview

First Year:

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
PCB 5065	Advanced Genetics	4
GMS 6231	Genomics and Bioinformatics	3
GMS 5905	Special Topics in Biomedical Sciences	1-4
BCH 6415	Advanced Molecular and Cell Biology	3
GMS 6221	Ethics in Genetics	1
GMS 6290	Genetics/Genomics Program Graduate Seminar (begins in the first semester and continues throughout students’ graduate careers)	1
ANG 7979	Advanced Research	1-12

The first year core training is the research rotation program, in which students “rotate” through three labs in a minimum of two colleges. Rotations are critical to selecting a graduate advisor: they provide a hands-on opportunity to participate in the research being conducted in a lab, and a mutual opportunity to evaluate fit between advisor and prospective student.

Second Year:

Individual program of courses and requirements is developed in consultation with major professor and dissertation committee

Admission Standards: Prospective students should have strong backgrounds in biology and other hard sciences. Exceptional students with other backgrounds will also be considered. The research statement required as part of the application has a particularly important part in the admissions decision. Each applicant must describe their research interests, so that Graduate Faculty can evaluate knowledge of the discipline, fit to the program, and ability to articulate and motivate an interesting research problem. The required Letters of Recommendation are also extremely important in helping identify applicants with exceptional aptitude for genetics, and with research experience and promise.

Contact the Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program by email, UFGI-Info@ad.ufl.edu or by phone, 352-273-8100.

For more information, visit our website: http://www.ufgi.ufl.edu.

Degrees Offered with a Major in Genetics and Genomics

Doctor of Philosophy
- without a concentration
- concentration in Clinical and Translational Science
- concentration in Domestic Animal Genomics

Requirements for these degrees are given in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog.

Genetics and Genomics (CLAS) Courses

Course List
Code	Title	Credits
AGR 6322	Advanced Plant Breeding	3
ANG 6532	Molecular Genetics of Disease	3
ANG 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
ANG 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
BCH 6415	Advanced Molecular and Cell Biology	3
BCH 7410	Advanced Gene Regulation	1
CAP 5510	Bioinformatics	3
CIS 6930	Special Topics in CIS	3
COT 5405	Analysis of Algorithms	3
FOR 6934	Topics in Forest Resources and Conservation	1-4
FOR 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
FOR 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
GMS 6012	Human Genetics	1
GMS 6013	Developmental Genetics	1
GMS 6014	Applications of Bioinformatics to Genetics	1
GMS 6920	Genetics Journal Colloquy	1
GMS 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
GMS 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
HOS 6201	Breeding Perennial Cultivars	3
PCB 5065	Advanced Genetics	4
PCB 5615	Molecular Evolution and Systematics	4
PCB 6528	Plant Cell and Developmental Biology	3
PCB 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
PCB 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
STA 5325	Fundamentals of Probability	3
STA 5328	Fundamentals of Statistical Theory	3
STA 6166	Statistical Methods in Research I	3
STA 6167	Statistical Methods in Research II	3
STA 6208	Basic Design and Analysis of Experiments	3
STA 6329	Matrix Algebra and Statistical Computing	3
STA 6934	Special Topics in Statistics	1-4
STA 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
STA 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15
ZOO 6927	Special Topics in Zoology	1-4
ZOO 7979	Advanced Research	1-12
ZOO 7980	Research for Doctoral Dissertation	1-15

Professor

Burris, Thomas P.
Concannon, Patrick J.
Rathinasabapathi, Balasubramani

Scientist

Riva, Alberto Alessandro

Affiliated Faculty

Allen, William L.
Associate Professor
Allred, David R.
Professor
Atkinson, Mark A.
Eminent Scholar
Austin, James D.
Professor
Baer, Charles
Professor
Barbazuk, William Bradley
Professor
Bloom, David C.
Professor
Bloom, Linda B.
Professor
Bonning, Bryony
Eminent Scholar
Brantly, Mark Louis
Professor
Braun, Edward Louis
Professor
Brown, Dan
Associate Professor
Bungert, Jorg
Professor
Burleigh, John Gordon
Associate Professor
Byrne, Barry John
Professor
Cavallari, Larisa Humma
Professor
Choe, Keith P.
Associate Professor
Cohn, Martin J.
Professor
Corti, Manuela
Associate Professor
Davis, John Mark
Professor
De Crecy, Valerie Anne
Professor
Denslow, Nancy D.
Professor
Driscoll, Daniel J.
Professor
Duarte, Julio David
Associate Professor
Farrer, Matthew James
Professor
Ferl, Robert J.
Distinguished Professor
Folta, Kevin M.
Professor
Foster, Jamie S.
Professor
Foster, Thomas C.
Professor
Gulig, Paul A.
Professor
Guralnick, Robert Penn
Curator
Hansen, Peter J.
Distinguished Professor
Harfe, Brian
Professor
Hauser, Bernard A.
Associate Professor
Hoffman, Brad E.
Associate Professor
Huang, Suming
Professor
Johnson, Julie Ann
Distinguished Professor
Kasahara, Hideko
Courtesy Associate Professor
Kawahara, Akito
Curator
Kaye, Frederic Joseph
Professor
Kirst, Matias
Professor
Kladde, Michael P.
Professor
Lawrence, Robert M.
Clinical Professor
Li, Yuqing
Professor
Liao, Daiqing
Associate Professor
Lu, Jianrong J.
Associate Professor
Maden, Malcolm
Professor
March, Keith L.
Professor
Mathews, Carol Anne
Professor
Maupin, Julie A.
Professor
Mccarty, Donald R.
Professor
McIntyre, Lauren M.
Professor
Mergia, Ayalew
Professor
Merritt, Matthew E.
Associate Professor
Moroz, Leonid Leonidovich
Distinguished Professor
Mulligan, Connie Jo
Professor
Nick, Harry S.
Professor
Oppenheimer, David G.
Associate Professor
Paul, Annalisa
Research Professor
Peter, Gary Frank
Professor
Ranum, Laura Page
Professor
Reed, David Lee
Curator
Renne, Rolf Friedrich
Professor
Resnick, James Lewis
Professor
Salemi, Marco
Professor
Sayour, Elias
Associate Professor
Schatz, Desmond A.
Professor
Scott, Edward W.
Professor
Seaver, Elaine C.
Professor
Soltis, Douglas Edward
Distinguished Professor
Soltis, Pamela S.
Distinguished Professor
Song, Sihong
Associate Professor
Swanson, Maurice S.
Professor
Tennant, Michele R.
University Librarian
Traktuev, Dmitry Olegovich
Research Associate Professor
Triplett, Eric
Professor
Vaillancourt, David E.
Professor
Vallejos, Carlos E.
Professor
Vermerris, Willem
Professor
Wallace, Margaret R.
Professor
Wang, Eric Tzy-Shi
Associate Professor
Wang, Jianping
Associate Professor
Wayne, Marta L.
Professor
Wu, Lizi
Professor
Xie, Mingyi
Associate Professor
Zhou, Lei
Professor
Zolotukhin, Serge
Professor

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Genetics and Genomics (CLAS)