The
University of Oregon has active research graduate
programs in many areas, including all the scientific disciplines.
The
Department of Biology encourages collaboration with other
departments. In addition to the regular science departments,
the UO has several internationally recognized research programs:
the Institute
of Neuroscience, whose faculty members come from
the biology, psychology, computer and information
science, and human physiology departments;
the Institute
of Molecular Biology, maintained jointly by the
biology, chemistry, and physics departments;
the Oregon
Institute of Marine Biology, maintained by the
biology department at Charleston, Oregon, on Coos
Bay, and
the Center
for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, established
in 2002,which promotes and facilitates research and
graduate education in ecology and evolutionary biology.
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Within
each area, faculty members offer broad training through graduate
courses, continuing seminar programs, weekly literature reviews,
and research conferences in laboratory groups. The emphasis
is on close instructional and research contact between students
and faculty members.
Several members of the departmental
staff with interests beyond these core areas serve as bridges
between interest groups. Students whose interests cross
conventional boundaries may follow training programs matched
to their interests. The specific research interests of faculty
members are described in detail on the Life
Sciences page.
Faculty
members are grouped in the major areas of biological research
at the university; each grouping contains a description
of the research carried out by biology faculty members with
active research programs as well as a list of other participating
faculty members, including those from other departments.
Students
who have earned Ph.D. degrees from this department
hold faculty positions or postdoctoral fellowships in many
major universities throughout the world. At present, the
department has 88 graduate students enrolled in the Ph.D. program and 17 additional graduate students working for their M.S. degree. They are an
active group and contribute significantly to the vitality
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