Bioinformatics Concentration

Required Courses (15 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

• MATH 6010 - Mathematical Biology 3 Hours
• MATH 6275 - Applied Dynamical Systems 3 Hours

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• MATH 8501 - Math Modeling of Epidemiology 3 Hours

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• PH 7280

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• 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

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• STAT 9999 - Dissertation Research 1 to 18 Hours