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232. Microclimatology
242. Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
244L. Molecular and Cellular Processes in Marine Organisms
245. Ecology of Microorganisms
252L. Statistics and Data Analysis in Earth and Ocean Science
257. Environmental Experimental Design
263. Environmental Economics: Quantitative Methods and Applications
268. Advanced Topics in Nearshore Processes
290. Physical Oceanography
291. Geological Oceanography
294. Water Quality Skills
303. Principles of Ecological Modeling
316. Case Studies in Environmental and Forest Management
330L. Environmental Monitoring and Instrumentation
335. Water Quality Modeling
340. Biohazard Science
341L. Methods in Biohazard Science
342. Bioaerosols
343. Hazard Management, Law, and Ethics
363. Economics of Natural Resource Damage Assessment
372. Advanced Theory of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
373. Topics in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
389. Seminar in Conservation and Environmental History
Genetics
See "University Program in Genetics" (immediately below), and also "Molecular
Genetics and Microbiology"
The University Program in Genetics and Genomics (UPG)
The Duke University Program in Genetics and Genomics is an umbrella graduate
training program that spans several basic science and clinical departments and bridges the
medical center and the college of arts and sciences. There are currently 79 faculty and 80
students in the program, which was founded in 1967 and has been continuously supported
by a training grant from the NIH for the past 25 years. Over the past several decades, the
program has served as an important forum for training and education in genetics, including
model systems (bacteria, yeast, fungi, drosophila, zebrafish, mouse), population genetics,
and human genetics. We hope to also forge a close link between the program and the
emerging Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy (IGSP) at Duke.
The Duke UPGG program is unique in that it is degree granting. Thus students can either
receive their degree via the University Program in Genetics and Genomics, or via their host
department that students affiliate with upon joining a laboratory for graduate training. The
requirements for the two are different, since students who choose to earn their degree from
the host department satisfy both UPGG and departmental requirements. In many cases, the
requirements for the UPGG program satisfy the departmental requirements.
The relationship between the University Program in Genetics and Genomics and the
Department of Genetics is evolving as a consequence of the merger of the Departments of
Genetics and Microbiology to form the Department of Molecular Genetics and
Microbiology. In the past, the Department of Genetics administered a graduate program in
concert with the University Program in Genetics and Genomics. Now the merged and
expanded Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology has established a
departmental graduate training program, the MGM department, that students from UPGG
can choose to adopt if they join an MGM member laboratory. Alternatively, students have
the option to seek their degree via the genetics program independent of a departmental
affilitiation. These mechanisms ensure a great degree of flexibility in serving the needs of
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