Does anyone know of heavy math based quantitative biology programs?

jixani
Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:58:06 +0000

I am in a somewhat similar situation as you are. Although I did my undergraduates in pure biology, I find myself drifting more and more towards heavily quantitative (evolutionary) genomics. The problem is that most biology departments have their two or three odd faculties that do purely theoretical stuff, but this is obviously not enough to have an own graduate program.

You seem to know pretty well what you want to do, I’d therefore recommend you to contact some of the people that you did genetic research with, or look at some research papers that have really impressed you to get some names of potential advisors. Most programs should be flexible enough that you can take most of your courses in areas you are interested in. In my case I am ending up applying to programs as different from each other as integrative biology, human genetics and computational biology, even though what I intend to do everywhere is basically the same.