Our overall goal is to expand and strengthen training opportunities for undergraduates at the cutting edge of our discipline. Our undergraduate education produces young scientists and citizens who understand the scope and perspective of modern biology. We support undergraduate scholarly endeavors, train students for an array of careers in research and related professional fields, and communicate the impact and significance of biology to an array of students. We offer a broad range of learning opportunities, including traditional classroom experiences, hands-on experiences in the field and the laboratory, independent study, and full student engagement in research.
In The News
Edgar Medina Scores Another Double for Duke Bio!
Hurrah for Edgar Medina and the Buchler Lab, who have papers out in PNAS and PLoS Genetics! The first paper, “Conservation and divergence...
Dong Lab Scores a Double in Nature!
Most labs would be content with getting a single paper into a leading journal like Nature, but the Dong Lab has published two important...
Upcoming Events
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Mechanism of Light Signaling in Controlling Chloroplast Biogenesis
Emily Yang, Sun Lab
Dissertation Seminar
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Diversity and Effects of the Fungal Endophytes of the Liverwort Marchantia polymorpha
Jessica Nelson, Shaw Lab
Dissertation Seminar
Undergraduate Program
Graduate Program
Duke Biology offers diverse training opportunities for students seeking a Ph.D. degree in biological sciences
Requirements for the Ph.D. include course work, participation in seminars relevant to your field of research, successful completion of an oral qualifying examination, one year of teaching experience, completion and defense of a research dissertation under faculty guidance.
Areas of Research
We conduct research in a broad range of areas: ecology (including behavioral ecology, population biology, community ecology, physiological ecology, ecosystem analysis, and biogeochemistry), functional biology at the cell and molecular level (including cellular physiology, molecular genetics, developmental biology, developmental genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics, in both plant and animal systems), functional biology at the organismal level (including comparative physiology, functional morphology, biomechanics, and animal behavior), and evolutionary biology (including population genetics, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary morphology, macroevolution, biogeography, and systematics). Many faculty research programs span multiple research areas and levels of biological organization, creating a dynamic training environment for graduate students interested in cross-disciplinary training.
Biology
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Durham, NC 27708-0338
Phone: (919) 660.7372
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