A look at Quantitative & Systems Biology
A look at Quantitative and Systems Biology
Click to get a glimpse of the QSB program from multiple perspectives! 
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Why QSB?
Quantitative and Systems Biology aims to accelerate the pace at which paradigm-shifting discoveries transform biology.
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Class of 2025
Meet our 1st year class of 2025!
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Joint Genome Institute
A summer program for graduate students at UC Merced to study in labs at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Click to learn more! 

Accelerating Biological Discovery Through Innovation

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.

Featured News

Avinav Biswas has been named a 2026 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar.
April 27, 2026

Avinav Biswas, a third‑year undergraduate majoring in biological sciences at UC Merced, has been named a 2026 Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, becoming the university’s first recipient of one of the...

Quantitative and Systems Biology Ph.D. student Tahirah Williams
April 15, 2026

Nervous but prepared, Tahirah Williams took the stage at UC Merced’s Grad Slam competition in March and delivered her three-minute talk, “More Than Slime: When Mucus Meets the Valley Fever Invader.”...

Top 100 Best Graduate Schools ranking, two students in a lab
April 7, 2026

UC Merced saw broad gains in the U.S. News and World Report 2026 Best Graduate Schools rankings with graduate programs rising in national standing, reflecting the campus’s growing academic and...