USC College Department of Biology

The Department of Biological Sciences offers a range of undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral training programs. Home to a vibrant community of life scientists, the department’s research spans the scales of biological organization, from molecules and cells to organisms, populations, species, and communities. An emphasis on interdisciplinary and collaborative research gives faculty and students opportunities to investigate a diverse array of living systems using a wide variety of research approaches and tools — from X-ray crystallography, molecular assays, and computational genomic analyses to advanced microscopy, magnetic resonance imaging, and field research in Antarctica, Africa, and the Pacific Ocean.

Faculty from the department’s three sections — Marine Environmental Biology, Molecular and Computational Biology, and Neurobiology — direct graduate students in five distinct doctoral programs:

Associated research centers and institutes include:

USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies
USC Center for Excellence in Genomic Sciences
USC Brain and Creativity Institute
Andrus Gerontology Center
Dornsife Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Jane Goodall Research Center

Biology News

Follow Katrina Edward's North Pond Expedition blog starting on Feb 16th.

Grants for minority students to work in research labs now available.

Michael Waterman has been selected as International Society for Computational Biology Fellow.

Michael Waterman has been named a 2009 fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

Simon Tavaré has been named a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.

Sarah Bottjer has been awarded a USC Mellon Mentoring Award in the category of Faculty Mentoring Faculty.

Pao-Chen Li of MCB was one of three to receive the university-wide Center for Excellence in Teaching Outstanding TA Award.

Frank Alber and Tansu Celikel selected as Sloan Research Fellows.

Michael Arbib, Sarah Bottjer, and Myron Goodman named fellows of AAAS

USC College Biologists Awarded $3.2 Million NSF Grant

Doug Capone's work featured by the National Science Foundation

Katrina Edward's work featured in Nature

Zumberge Interdisciplinary Award given to Steven Finkel, Katrina Edwards and Steve Goodman

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