Question
I want to go to graduate school, where should I go to work with GMOs?
I want to go to graduate school for plant geneticsbiotechnologybreeding, where do you suggest I go to work closely with GMOs in this concern?
Submitted by: Morty
Answer
Expert response from Community Manager
Thursday, 09/10/2014 16:30
Great question! There are many options for students interested in learning about modern plant-breeding techniques and crop improvement through biotechnology, including mutation breeding, marker-assisted selection, transgenesis, RNAi and genome editing.
Land-grant universities, established by the U.S. Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, including the University of California, Davis, have strong academic programs in agronomy, plant breeding and plant biology. Every state has at least one land-grant university with a research and cooperative extension mission to support regional agriculture, so a natural place to start looking for graduate training in modern technologies for crop improvement is the land-grant university closest to home.
At U.C. Davis, we have a number of agriculture-related master’s and doctoral graduate degree programs across the life sciences and engineering. Through the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology (DEB) degree program, Ph.D. students specifically interested in agricultural biotechnology can choose to add on training in bioethics, intellectual property, regulatory affairs and entrepreneurship, including a six-month industry internship. The DEB draws students from 30 different disciplines, including Ph.D. programs with an agricultural or plant biology focus:
Biological Systems Engineering
Integrative Genetics & Genomics
In addition to academic degree programs, U.C. Davis has world-class research facilities to accelerate crop improvement through biotechnology, including the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Plant Transformation Facility and the Seed Biotechnology Center.
The United States is home to many globally renowned agricultural research universities offering training in the modern techniques of plant breeding. In addition to U.C. Davis, take a look at degree programs offered by Cornell, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Texas A&M, Purdue, Oregon State, Penn State, Iowa State and the other highly ranked land-grant universities (QS World University Rankings—Agriculture & Forestry).
Answer
Expert response from Community Manager
Thursday, 09/10/2014 16:30
Great question! There are many options for students interested in learning about modern plant-breeding techniques and crop improvement through biotechnology, including mutation breeding, marker-assisted selection, transgenesis, RNAi and genome editing.
Land-grant universities, established by the U.S. Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, including the University of California, Davis, have strong academic programs in agronomy, plant breeding and plant biology. Every state has at least one land-grant university with a research and cooperative extension mission to support regional agriculture, so a natural place to start looking for graduate training in modern technologies for crop improvement is the land-grant university closest to home.
At U.C. Davis, we have a number of agriculture-related master’s and doctoral graduate degree programs across the life sciences and engineering. Through the Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology (DEB) degree program, Ph.D. students specifically interested in agricultural biotechnology can choose to add on training in bioethics, intellectual property, regulatory affairs and entrepreneurship, including a six-month industry internship. The DEB draws students from 30 different disciplines, including Ph.D. programs with an agricultural or plant biology focus:
Biological Systems Engineering
Integrative Genetics & Genomics
In addition to academic degree programs, U.C. Davis has world-class research facilities to accelerate crop improvement through biotechnology, including the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Plant Transformation Facility and the Seed Biotechnology Center.
The United States is home to many globally renowned agricultural research universities offering training in the modern techniques of plant breeding. In addition to U.C. Davis, take a look at degree programs offered by Cornell, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Texas A&M, Purdue, Oregon State, Penn State, Iowa State and the other highly ranked land-grant universities (QS World University Rankings—Agriculture & Forestry).
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