• Skip to Content
  • AZ Index
  • Catalog Home
  • Institution Home

University of Florida

UF Graduate Logo

Catalog

  • Administration
    • Graduate School
    • Graduate Faculty
  • Graduate Programs
    • Graduate Degrees
    • Graduate Programs A-Z
    • Graduate Certificates
  • Colleges & Departments
  • Graduate Courses
  • Student Resources
    • Resources Available to Graduate Students
    • Student Services
    • Financial Information
    • Financial Aid
  • Graduate Academic Regulations
  • Admission
  • Academic Catalogs
  • Academic Calendar
  • Previous Catalogs
  • Print Options
  • Search
  • The Graduate School

Genetics and Genomics (CLAS)

graduate
  • Home
  • Graduate Catalog
  • Colleges and Departments
  • College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Interdisciplinary
  • Genetics and Genomics (CLAS)
Graduate Catalog
  • Genetics and Genomics (CLAS)
  • Overview
  • Degrees Offered
  • Courses

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 5065Advanced Genetics4
GMS 6231Genomics and Bioinformatics3
GMS 5905Special Topics in Biomedical Sciences1-4
BCH 6415Advanced Molecular and Cell Biology3
GMS 6221Ethics in Genetics1
GMS 6290Genetics/Genomics Program Graduate Seminar (begins in the first semester and continues throughout students’ graduate careers)1
ANG 7979Advanced Research1-12

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 his/her 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
  • Doctor of Philosophy - Clinical and Translational Science

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 6322Advanced Plant Breeding3
ANG 6532Molecular Genetics of Disease3
ANG 7979Advanced Research1-12
ANG 7980Research for Doctoral Dissertation1-15
BCH 6415Advanced Molecular and Cell Biology3
BCH 7410Advanced Gene Regulation1
CAP 5510Bioinformatics3
CAP 55153
CIS 6930Special Topics in CIS3
COT 5405Analysis of Algorithms3
FOR 6934Topics in Forest Resources and Conservation1-4
FOR 7979Advanced Research1-12
FOR 7980Research for Doctoral Dissertation1-15
GMS 6012Human Genetics1
GMS 6013Developmental Genetics1
GMS 6014Applications of Bioinformatics to Genetics1
GMS 60151
GMS 6920Genetics Journal Colloquy1
GMS 7979Advanced Research1-12
GMS 7980Research for Doctoral Dissertation1-15
HOS 6201Breeding Perennial Cultivars3
PCB 5065Advanced Genetics4
PCB 5615Molecular Evolution and Systematics4
PCB 6528Plant Cell and Developmental Biology3
PCB 7979Advanced Research1-12
PCB 7980Research for Doctoral Dissertation1-15
STA 5325Fundamentals of Probability3
STA 5328Fundamentals of Statistical Theory3
STA 6166Statistical Methods in Research I3
STA 6167Statistical Methods in Research II3
STA 6208Basic Design and Analysis of Experiments3
STA 6329Matrix Algebra and Statistical Computing3
STA 6934Special Topics in Statistics1-4
STA 7979Advanced Research1-12
STA 7980Research for Doctoral Dissertation1-15
ZOO 6927Special Topics in Zoology1-4
ZOO 7979Advanced Research1-12
ZOO 7980Research for Doctoral Dissertation1-15

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA

  • About Us
  • Admissions
  • Academics
  • Faculty & Staff
  • Graduate Life
  • Prospective Students
  • News
facebook icon for social media

APPLY Now Make a Gift Virtual Tour
OFFICES
  • Administration
  • Data Management
  • Division of Graduate Student Affairs (DGSA)
  • Editorial
  • Graduate Records
CONTACT INFORMATION
106 Grinter Hall
1523 Union Road
PO Box 115500
Gainesville, FL 32611-5500
352 392 6622
352 392 8729
gradschool@aa.ufl.edu

  • Contact Us
  • Campus Map
  • MyUFL
  • Emergency Information
  • ONE.UF
  • Privacy Policy
  • Webmail
  • Disability Services
  • Site Map
© 2020-2021 Graduate School & University of Florida
This page uses Google Analytics (Google Privacy Policy)

Print Options

Send Page to Printer

Print this page.

Download PDF of this page

The PDF will include all information unique to this page.

Download PDF of the entire catalog

This PDF includes all graduate catalog information.

Cancel