Bioinformatics Concentration

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Concentration Requirements

The bioinformatics concentration requires that a student takes three qualifying exams. At least two of the qualifying exams must be chosen from the required courses for the bioinformatics concentration. One of the qualifying exams can be the required (core) course either from concentration in mathematics or from concentration in statistics.

Required Courses (15 Hours)

Students must take five of the following six required courses (15 credit hours):

MATH 8500 - Systems Biology 3 Hours
MATH 8505 - Advanced Mathematical Biology 3 Hours (if not taken as a required course)
MATH 8515 - Dynamical Foundations of Neuroscience 3 Hours
MATH 8520 - Applied Combinatorics and Graph Theory 3 Hours
MATH 8525 - Applied Stochastic Processes 3 Hours
MATH 8560 - Informatics of Neural and Cardiovascular Systems 3 Hours

9 Credit Hours Selected from

Students must take at least 9 credit hours selected from the list below (9 credit hours).

MATH 6010 - Mathematical Biology 3 Hours
MATH 6275 - Applied Dynamical Systems 3 Hours
MATH 8501 - Math Modeling of Epidemiology 3 Hours
or
PH 7280
MATH 8510 - Applied Mathematics 3 Hours (if not taken as a common core course)
MATH 8505 - Advanced Mathematical Biology 3 Hours
MATH 8540 - Advanced Topics in Ordinary Differential Equations and Dynamic Systems 3 Hours
STAT 8561 - Linear Statistical Analysis I 3 Hours
STAT 8581 - Statistical Theory I 3 Hours
STAT 8582 - Statistical Theory II 3 Hours
STAT 8610 - Time Series Analysis 3 Hours

At Least 18 Credit Hours

Students must take at least 18 credit hours that should be selected from other graduate level courses in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and courses from other departments listed below. The total number of required hours of coursework is 54; if STAT 8561 is taken as part of the core and used to also satisfy the 9 required hours above, a student must take additional coursework in Mathematics and Statistics or from the list below.

BIOL 6102 - Neurobiology 4 Hours
BIOL 6248 - Cell Physiology 4 Hours
BIOL 6428 - Medical Microbiology 4 Hours
BIOL 6500 - Human Genetics 4 Hours
BIOL 6564 - Advanced Genetics 4 Hours
BIOL 6565 - General Oncology 4 Hours
BIOL 6575 - Virology 4 Hours
BIOL 6800 - Principles of Cellular Biology 4 Hours
BIOL 7240 - Applied Medical Physiology 3 Hours
BIOL 7430 - Biotechnology 3 Hours
BIOL 7800 - Molecular Cell Biology 3 Hours
BIOL 7880 - Microbiology 3 Hours
BIOL 7900 - Genetics 3 Hours
BIOL 8010 - Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental Neuroscience 3 Hours
BIOL 8020 - Systems Neuroscience 3 Hours
BIOL 8220 - Advanced Molecular Cell Biology 4 Hours
BIOL 8248 - Advanced Cellular Physiology 4 Hours
BIOL 8278 - Molecular Immunology 4 Hours
BIOL 8310 - Concepts in Cell Biology and Physiology 2 Hours
BIOL 8360 - Protein Structure and Function 3 Hours
BIOL 8410 - Advanced Microbiology 4 Hours
BIOL 8510 - Concepts in Microbiology 2 Hours
BIOL 8610 - Physiology and Genetics of Prokaryotes 4 Hours
BIOL 8620 - Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics 4 Hours
BIOL 8675 - Molecular Virology 4 Hours
BIOL 8710 - Concepts in Molecular Genetics 2 Hours
CHEM 6110 - Chemical Thermodynamics and Kinetics 3 Hours
CHEM 6120 - Quantum Chemistry 3 Hours
CHEM 6150 - Introduction to Biophysical Chemistry 3 Hours
CHEM 6410 - Bioorganic Chemistry 3 Hours
CHEM 6450 - Molecular Modeling Methods 3 Hours
CHEM 6590 - Special Topics in Physical Chemistry 3 Hours
CHEM 6600 - Biochemistry I 5 Hours
CHEM 6610 - Biochemistry II 3 Hours
CHEM 6630 - Enzymology 3 Hours
CHEM 6640 - Fundamentals of Bioinformatics 4 Hours
CHEM 8360 - Protein Structure and Function 3 Hours
CHEM 8370 - Nucleic Acid Structure and Function 3 Hours
CHEM 8400 - Medicinal Chemistry 3 Hours
CHEM 8510 - Biophysical Chemistry 4 Hours
CHEM 8520 - Computational Chemistry 3 Hours
CHEM 8620 - Advanced Topics in Biochemistry 3 Hours
CSC 8510 - Theory of Computation 4 Hours
CSC 8630 - Advanced Bioinformatics 4 Hours
CSC 8711 - Databases and the Web 4 Hours
NEUR 6330 - Functional Neuroimaging 3 Hours
NEUR 6340 - Neurophysics 3 Hours
NEUR 8380 - Computational Neuroscience 3 Hours

Dissertation Research

(at least 30 hours of MATH 9999 or STAT 9999)

MATH 9999 - Dissertation Research 1 to 18 Hours
or
STAT 9999 - Dissertation Research 1 to 18 Hours