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The
University of Maine together with The
Jackson Laboratory and the Maine Medical Center Research Institute,
has initiated an interdisciplinary, inter-institutional
degree program in Functional Genomics, supported by an
interactive faculty from the three institutions.
Functional Genomics,
perhaps more than ever before, requires a level of interdisciplinary
interaction of the biological,
physical and computational sciences. This increased
need for interdisciplinary research will in turn require
scientists trained to work interactively in multiple disciplines. In
response this new educational paradigm was developed to train
students who can move freely among the disciplines needed
to investigate genome
function. The students move from a base curriculum giving coverage in the
biological, physical and computational sciences to an interdisciplinary thesis
project requiring two mentors from two different disciplines. Throughout
this process students are in constant contact with other students and with faculty,
learning to communicate easily in the different “languages” scientists
use. Finally, the degree program provides the bridge linking
a set of "virtual" interdependent research Centers of Excellence in: genetics/genomics;
cell/molecular biology; biophysics/bioengineering; and computational biology/bioinformatics.
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A member
of the University of Maine System
Functional
Genomics Ph.D. Program
267A ESRB, Barrows Hall
Orono, ME 04469-5708
Tel: 800-828-2699
Fax: 207-581-2255
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