Students in the Integrated Plant Biology specialization create their own unique curriculum by choosing courses offered by a variety of departments:
Agronomy Biochemistry Computer Science Horticulture Natural Resources Plant Pathology Statistics
Upon successful completion of the Specialization in Integrative Plant Biology, students will have mastered the skills and concepts necessary to • Formulate and experimentally test new hypotheses about relationships between genes, organisms, and ecosystems • Demonstrate competence, proficiency and breadth in quantitative plant research • Apply theories and methodologies related to plant biological systems • Conduct and provide leadership in basic and applied research in plant biology List the courses that will be offered in the specialization. NOTE: Except in cases of interdisciplinary specializations, one half of the courses (student credit hours) must come from the major or be cross-listed with another program’s courses.
Required for all students in the specialization:
CBIO841, Biosystems Research I: Big Questions (3cr)
CBIO842, Biosystems Research II: Integrating discovery approaches into basic and applied research (3cr)
CBIO843, Graduate Seminar (10cr total): Research and journal club presentations.
CBIO844, Professional Skills (1cr)
CBIO845, Biotechnology Core Facility instrumentation course (2cr)
STAT 801, Statistical Methods in Research(4cr)
IPB student’s core course selection options (minimum of 3 credits per topic area). NOTE: The courses listed below are suggested and not exclusionary. Other courses can be approved upon request.
Computational/Stats component:
Botany (3 credits)
AGRO 896: Bioinformatics Applications in Agriculture (3 credits)
AGRO 932: Biometrical genetics and plant breeding (3 credits)
BIOS 826: Computational Systems Biology (3 credits)
BIOS 827: Practical Bioinformatics Laboratory (3 credits)
BIOS 828: Perl Programming for Biological Applications (3 credits)
BIOS 829: Phylogenetic Biology (4 credits)
BIOS 877: Bioinformatics and Molecular Evolution (3 credits)
CSCE 871: Bioinformatics (3 credits)
CSCE 896: Computational Methods in Bioinformatics (3 credits)
STAT 801 (is a pre-req of STAT 802 –Design and Analysis of Research Studies (4 credits)
STAT 802: Experimental Design (4 credits)
STAT 803: Ecological Statistics (4 credits)
STAT 842: Computational Biology (3 credits)
Organismal/Breeding component:
AGRO/HORT/NRES 826: Invasive Plants (3 credits)
AGRO/NRES 842: Wildland Plants (3 credits)
BIOS 855: Great Plains Flora (4 credits)
BIOS 871: Plant Systematics (4 credits)
BIOS 878: Plant Anatomy (4 credits)
BIOS 879: Plant Growth and Development (4 credits)
NRES 806: Plant Ecophysiology: Theory and Practice (4 credits)
AGRO/ASCI 931: Population Genetics (3 credits)
ENTO 827: Ecological Genetics (3 credits)
Genetics/Molecular/Cellular component:
BIOS 818: Advanced Genetics (3 credits)
AGRO 919: Plant Genetics (3 credits)
AGRO 810: Plant Molecular Biology (3 credits)
BIOS 820: Molecular Genetics (3 credits)
AGRO 807: Plant-Water Relations (3 credits)
AGRO/BIOC 834: Plant Biochemistry (3 credits)
AGRO 896: Biofortification (4 credits)
PLPT 867: Plant Associated Microbes (4 credits)
Environment/Ecology/Evolution component:
BIOS 803 Principles of Evolution (3 credits)
BIOS 805 Principles of Ecology (3 credits)
AGRO/HORT/NRES 806: Plant Ecophysiology: Theory and Practice (4 credits)
AGRO/NRES 807: BIOS 817: Plant-Water Relations (3 credits)
AGRO/NRES 808: Microclimate: The Biological Environment (3 credits)
AGRO/HORT 832: Learning Plant Science (3 credits)
AGRO/HORT/NRES 835: Agroecology (3 credits)
AGRO/NRES 840: Great Plains Ecosystem (3 credits)
AGRO 843: Ecology of Invasive Species (3 credits)
AGRO 850/NRES 852: Climate and Society (3 credits)
AGRO/NRES 877: Great Plains Field Pedology (4 credits)
AGRO 812 / NRES 810: Landscape Ecology (3 credits)
BIOS/NRES 854: Ecological Interactions (3 credits)
BIOS 857: Ecosystem Ecology (4 credits)
BIOS 870: Prairie Ecology (4 credits)
NRES 824: Forest Ecology (4 credits)
NRES 868: Wetlands (4 credits)
NRES 867: Global Climate Change (3 credits)
NRES/AGRO817: Agroforestry Systems in Sustainable Agriculture (3 credits)