2006年 北美 生物信息学 申请指南---6-1 Ph.D. Program in CB at Cornell

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Finally, Cornell University approved the establishment of Ph.D. Program  
in Computational Biology. It is complimentary to Tri-Institutional Prgram in  
Computational Biology and Medicine (http://www.triiprograms.org/cbm.html) which has already been talked about in Guide 6.  

Computational Biology (CB) at Cornell is an interdisciplinary program that links the computational and mathematical sciences with the life sciences, http://www.cb.cornell.edu/index.htm  

(1) Admission Requirments

The detailed information about admission requirements will be available soon. Please
check http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu/catalog/fields.php?id=4A back later.

(2)Research Areas

The graduate field of Computational Biology has seven subjects:



       Computational biology
       Computational genetics
       Computational cell biology
       Computational organismal biology
       Computational behavioral biology
       Computational ecology  

(3) Faculty

32 Computational Biology faculty come from 16 departments, including the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.  

The webpage of each faculty can be found at http://www.gradschool.cornell.ed ... s.php?a=3&id=4A

Recommended faculty:

Andy Clark, current director of this program, a famous Population genetics expert, http://www.mbg.cornell.edu/Clark_Lab.cfm


(4) Courses

Course information can be found at http://www.cb.cornell.edu/courses.htm


Just a reminder that if you have a background in Statistics/Mathematics, you may
be interested in Ph.D. Program in Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at Cornell, http://www.bscb.cornell.edu/