The UCI Developmental Biology and Genetics Graduate Training Program is part of the large, multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biosciences. The Developmental Biology and Genetics Training Program functions as an area of study within the larger program, sharing a common core curriculum and admissions process. The developmental biology and genetics research focus emphasizes research training in molecular and genetic aspects of cellular and developmental biology. The faculty use a variety of experimental systems including yeast, hydra, fruit flies, amphibians, chicken, mouse, and human, and they use broad-based approaches to study many important problems including embryonic induction, pattern formation, growth control, regeneration, neurogenesis, tumorigenesis, signal transduction, and metabolic regulation. By combining diverse groups of researchers linked by shared interests in biology within a single research interest group, we hope to expose students to a broad range of influences from and intellectual interactions with the various faculty members. The number of professors involved with this group increases the resources available as students receive training in some of the most active and rapidly growing research areas in biology.
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