Doctor of Philosophy in Microbiology
Degree Requirements
| Required Coursework 1 | ||
| 7.492[J] | Methods and Problems in Microbiology | 12 |
| 7.493[J] | Microbial Genetics and Evolution | 12 |
| 7.571 & 7.572 | Quantitative Analysis of Biological Data and Quantitative Measurements and Modeling of Biological Systems | 12 |
| 7.51 | Principles of Biochemical Analysis | 12 |
| or 7.80 | Fundamentals of Chemical Biology | |
| Research Rotations | ||
| 7.499 | Research Rotations in Microbiology | 24 |
| Restricted Electives 2 | 36 | |
| Select at least three subjects from the following list: | ||
| Genomics and Evolution of Infectious Disease | ||
| Environmental Microbial Biogeochemistry | ||
| Principles of Bioinorganic Chemistry | ||
| Tutorial in Chemical Biology | ||
| Advances in Chemical Biology | ||
| Advances in Interdisciplinary Science in Human Health and Disease | ||
| Biophysical Chemistry Techniques | ||
| Molecular Biology | ||
| Microbial Physiology | ||
| Immunology | ||
| Molecular Basis of Infectious Disease | ||
| Regulation of Gene Expression | ||
| Biophysical Technique | ||
| Nucleic Acids, Structure, Function, Evolution, and Their Interactions with Proteins | ||
| Systems Biology | ||
| Biochemical Engineering and Biomanufacturing Principles | ||
| Metabolic and Cell Engineering | ||
| Statistical Thermodynamics | ||
| Principles of Molecular Bioengineering | ||
| Analysis of Biological Networks | ||
| Applied Microbiology | ||
| Computational Systems Biology: Deep Learning in the Life Sciences | ||
| Evolutionary and Quantitative Genomics | ||
| Teaching Requirement | ||
| 7.498 | Teaching Experience in Microbiology | 12 |
| Research and Thesis | ||
| 7.494 | Research Problems in Microbiology 3 | 180-252 |
| 7.MTHG | Microbiology Graduate Thesis 3 | 108 |
| Total Units | 408-480 | |
| 1 | Students with a particularly strong background in any of these areas may have the option of placing out of the related course. Approval of the Graduate Education Committee is required. |
| 2 | Subjects from some other areas may also fulfill the requirement, with the approval of the Graduate Education committee. |
| 3 | The units listed here represent an average number taken during the doctoral program. |
