Molecular and Cellular Biology, Graduate Catalog, Oregon State University Be descriptive for better results. The Molecular and Cellular Biology degree program provides students with comprehensive interdisciplinary training in molecular and cellular biology while reserving sufficient flexibility for students to specialize in their areas of interest.
Additional coursework is custom-tailored to the individual student's interests and needs.
Each program requires 36 units of graduate level course work, participation in seminar programs, two quarters of supervised teaching experience, written and oral preliminary examinations, supervision by an individual committee of five faculty members, and presentation of a thesis containing the results of publishable original research. The program also offers access to all of the participating faculty as potential research advisers. Students do three research rotations in the first year and select their adviser from over 70 faculty members in the 14 participating departments in 5 colleges. Therefore, the MCB Program lowers interdisciplinary barriers and allows the students to select the advisers which most closely match their interests after they have been on campus for one or more terms. Monday, April 30, 2001.