2010-2011 UF Graduate Catalog (PDF Format) - Graduate School ...

University of Florida Graduate School
Genetics and Genomics
Interdisciplinary
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Chair and Graduate Coordinator: W. Vermerris.
Complete faculty listing by department: Follow this link
The University of Florida Genetics Institute is a multi-college, multifaceted
research center. Good geneticists are integrative
geneticists, who incorporate many different subfields of genetics
into their work. The core mission is to improve the quality of life of
people throughout the world via integrative, genetics-based
research. Accordingly, faculty interests and graduate research
opportunities include a wide range of areas from advances in gene
therapy to understanding the maintenance of genetic variation, from
understanding plant immune responses to developing improved
algorithms for identifying regulatory motifs in DNA sequences, and
from the challenges of bioethics to strategies for controlling malaria.
The highlight of the first year core training is the research rotations
program. Student laboratory rotations are a particularly exciting
feature of the genetics and genomics doctoral program, and
epitomize the philosophy that good geneticists are broadly trained
and integrative. Many current Graduate Faculty members still
vividly recall the transforming effects of their rotations during
graduate school--they didn’t always end up where they expected!
Rotations can open students’ eyes to areas of genetics that they
had never considered and entice them into considering brand new
career opportunities. Each student will sample the breadth and
depth of genetics research at UF by carrying out three 8-week