QSB is the graduate program for the biological sciences. It is the largest graduate program at UC Merced, and it is highly integrative and interdisciplinary. The QSB curriculum is tailored to the student’s needs and research interests. The program now offers degrees with elective concentrations in Molecular and Cellular Biology (biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, developmental biology, immunology, microbiology, neurobiology, physiology), Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Computational and Theoretical Biology (new for 2023). Concentration students form a cohort with shared training; the name of the concentration will appear on your transcript and degree.
Whether your passion is to reduce human suffering from disease, mitigate climate-change effects on ecosystems, or advance how we understand, explain and predict living systems, your career will benefit from the unique competitive advantages of a QSB degree.
The QSB graduate program trains students in quantitative and interdisciplinary biology research, with particular emphasis on Molecular and Cell Biology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Systems and Synthetic Biology, and Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics.
QSB researchers access top-notch facilities including the Stem Cell Instrumentation Foundry (SCIF), a shared high-performance computing (HPC) cluster for Multi-Environment Research Computer for Exploration and Discovery (MERCED), and a shared Illumina MiSeq.
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Advances in techniques and theory that bridge molecular and ecosystems scales have greatly enabled the potential for integration across the life sciences. Biologists' ability to gather and process large amounts of quantitative data in field and laboratory settings is advancing hand-in-hand with theory and modeling that better explain the diversity of life on Earth.