Graduate Degrees Offered

Application Checklist

• Online Application for Graduate Admission
• $45 non-refundable application processing fee
• Two (2) sets of official transcripts
• If your native language is not English: verification of English proficiency
• If you are not a US citizen and you expect to hold an F or J visa: financial resource information

• Entrance exam(s): GRE
• Minimum TOEFL:  Paper-550  Internet-79
• Three letters of recommendation
• Statement of goals and research interests

Description of Program

The Center for Biological Chemistry (CBC) offers a graduate program which is interdisciplinary. Research opportunities exist in a variety of areas, including plant biochemistry, photosynthesis research, plant and animal metabolism, metallobiochemistry, enzyme mechanisms, cancer biology, redox biology, and molecular biology. Biochemistry faculty and participating faculty in animal science, agronomy, chemistry, entomology, and biological sciences contribute to the program.

Instructional programs are focused within the George W. Beadle Center for Genetics and Biomaterials Research. The Center contains state-of-the-art research laboratories, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, microscope facilities, a greenhouse complex, and many of the core facilities of the Center for Biotechnology. These facilities include laboratories for recombinant DNA, cell analysis, DNA sequencing and oligonucleotide synthesis, protein sequencing and peptide synthesis, and monoclonal and polyclonal antibody production and plant transformation.