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Barbara J. Taylor, Director
3021 Ag and Life Sciences Building
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331-7303
541-737-3799
541-737-3045 fax
E-mail: mcb@cgrb.oregonstate.edu
Website: http://mcb.oregonstate.edu

Affiliate Faculty

Over 90 faculty members drawn from 18 departments in six colleges participate in the MCB program.

Graduate Major

Molecular and Cellular Biology (MS, PhD)

Graduate Areas of Concentration
Bioinformatics
Biotechnology
Cell Biology
Developmental Biology
Genome Biology
Molecular Biology
Molecular Pathogenesis
Molecular Virology
Plant Molecular Biology
Structural Biology

Graduate Minor

Molecular and Cellular Biology

The Molecular and Cellular Biology Degree Program provides students with comprehensive interdisciplinary training in molecular and cellular biology while reserving sufficient flexibility for students to specialize in their areas of interest. The elements of the core curriculum include courses in molecular genetics and cell structure and function, a seminar and ethics class, a series of faculty research presentations, and research rotations. Additional course work is custom-tailored to the individual student’s interests and needs. Each program requires 36 units of graduate-level course work, participation in seminar programs, two quarters of supervised teaching experience, written and oral preliminary examinations, supervision by an individual committee of five faculty members, and presentation of a thesis containing the results of publishable original research.

The program also offers access to all of the participating faculty as potential research advisors. Students do three research rotations in the first year and select their advisor from over 90 faculty members in the 18 participating departments in six colleges. Therefore, the MCB Program lowers interdisciplinary barriers and allows the students to select the advisors that most closely match their interests after they have been on campus for one or more terms.