Molecular Cellular & Developmental Biology
Ph.D.
www.biology.yale.edu/

Fields of Study Research training in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology, as well as in genetics and neurobiology; study of catalytic RNA's, cell cycle regulation, chromosome segregation, genetic recombination, mutation, transposons and oncogenes; structure of the cell cytoskeleton, molecular motors, chemical biology, cell surface receptors, protein transport, hormone action, mammalian transcription factors and the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation; sensory signal transduction, animal color vision, growth cone motility, neural differentiation, synaptogenesis, and the formation of topograhic maps. A special program in plant sciences provides research and training in the molecular genetics of flowering, the developmental biology of leaves, the physiology of hormone action, sex determination, and the cellular and molecular biology of photomorphogenesis.

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Special Admissions Requirements GRE Subject Tests in biology, or biochemistry, or cell and molecular biology recommended. Entrance to this program is through an interest-based track, usually the Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development track, in the combined program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS); see BBS description.

Director of Graduate Studies
Shirleen Roeder
804 KBT
(203) 432-2501

Mailing Address
PO Box 208103
New Haven CT 06520-8103