Biology

Degrees offered: M.S., Ph.D.
http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/graduate/index.asp
617-627-3195

The program includes seven concentrations: ecology, behavior and evolution; genetics and molecular biology; developmental biology; neurobiology and animal behavior; cell physiology; conservation and the environment; and biotechnology (with a focus on molecular biology and applied aspects of biotechnology). The program provides students the chance to interact with faculty and students involved in other specialized areas, an opportunity that often leads to new ideas for cross-disciplinary research.

There are two master's degree options, one requiring independent research and a thesis and the other focusing on course work, with research optional. Applicants must indicate which option they want.

Applications for the master's thesis option and doctoral programs are accepted only for the fall semester.

Applications for the master's course work program are accepted for the fall or spring semester.

Applicants should have the equivalent of an undergraduate major in biology.

FACULTY/SPECIALTY

Harry Bernheim
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Human physiology and immunology

Frances Sze-Ling Chew
Ph.D., Yale University
Ecology, plant-herbivorous insect interactions

David E.Cochrane
Ph.D., University of Vermont
Cellular physiology of the mast cell

George S. Ellmore
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
Experimental plant anatomy/morphology

Susan G. Ernst
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Developmental biology, sea urchin gastrulation model

Ross S. Feldberg
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Biochemistry, chronic inflammation, including stimulation of mast cells

Catherine H. Freudenreich
Ph.D., Duke University
DNA mutation and chromosome fragility in yeast

Juliet A. Fuhrman
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Immunology and infectious disease, life cycle of parasitic roundworms

Michelle Gaudette
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Molecular biology, gene regulation of development

Sara M. Lewis
Ph.D., Duke University
Evolutionary and behavioral ecology, reproductive ecology, tropical coral reef communities

Margaret A. Lynch
Ph.D., University of Colorado
Cell biology, molecular biology, extracellular surfaces in plants, plant pigments

Kelly McLaughlin
Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Molecular development (organogenesis), focus on the kidney

Mitch McVey
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Molecular biology, genomic instability

Sergei Mirkin
Ph.D., Russian Academy of Sciences
Genetics and Molecular Biology

Colin M. Orians
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Ecology, impact of environmental and genetic variability on plants

Jan A. Pechenik
Ph.D., University of Rhode Island
Invertebrate zoology and marine biology, focus on evolution of reproductive patterns

J. Michael Reed
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
Conservation biology, focus on birds, amphibians, moss

L. Michael Romero
Ph.D., Stanford University
Physiology and neuroendocrinology of the vertebrate stress response

Eli Siegel
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Microbial genetics, DNA repair, mechanisms correcting replication errors

Philip Starks
Ph.D., Cornell University
Behavioral ecology, social behavior of insects, especially honeybees and paper wasps

Barry A. Trimmer
Ph.D., Cambridge University
Cellular and molecular processes underlying behavior