For Undergraduate Students

For Grad Students

The exhilarating pace of discovery in the Life Sciences and the complex problems ahead demand new approaches that cut across traditional disciplines. The interactive and stimulating environment of Brandeis University fosters thinking "outside the box", where biophysical and genetic approaches merge with the tools of biochemistry and molecular biology to investigate the fundamental processes of life. The graduate programs are committed to interdisciplinary training, spanning five academic departments as well as four research centers. Brandeis University offers the rare combination of an internationally recognized research university in a small college setting that promotes close interactions with prestigious faculty. The suburban campus is just 20 minutes from the bustling academic and biotechnology centers of Boston and Cambridge.

Brandeis offers the following four Ph.D. granting programs in the biological sciences:

In addition, Brandeis offers the three M.S. programs listed here:

Brandeis undergraduates can choose from majors in the Life Sciences departments of:

Or majors in the interdepartmental programs in:

Detailed information regarding program requirements are available here: Additional Links:

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Fri 9/5/08 12:15 pmRed Square
Life Sciences Pizza Party
Pizza Party
The Life Sciences announces its annual Pizza Party.
Mon 9/8/08 11 amVolen 201
Computational/Systems Neuroscience Journal Club
Mon 9/8/08 12 noonRosenstiel 118
Molecular Genetics Journal Club
Chad Nusbaum (Co-Director, Genome Sequencing and Analysis Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
New sequencing technologies: Applications and opportunities
Hosted by Piali Sengupta
Mon 9/8/08 3:45 pmGerstenzang 122
Chemistry Department Colloquium
Prof. Hartmut Oschkinat (Structural Biology Programme, Leibnizinstitut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin)
Structural investigations on aB crystallin and an ABC transporter by solid-state NMR
Mon 9/8/08 4 pmGerstenzang 121
M.R. Bauer Colloquium Series
Marla B. Feller (Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, University of California, Berkeley)
The development of functional retinal circuits
Hosted by Gina Turrigiano
Mon 9/15/08 1 pmPerlman Lounge
Thesis Seminar
Bethany K. Bracken (Turrigiano Lab)
Developmental and Experience-Dependent Regulation of BDNF, TrkB Isoforms, and P75 in Rodent Visual Cortex
Hosted by Gina Turrigiano
Tue 9/16/08 2 pmKalman 127
Special Seminar
Louise Mead (National Center for Science Education)
From Darwin to Dover and beyond: The history of the creationism and the intelligent design movement and current attacks on evolution education
Hosted by Melissa Kosinski-Collins