Course Description
For students who have completed all credit hour requirements, full-time enrollment, preliminary examination, and residency requirements for the doctoral degree, and are writing and defending their dissertations.
Spring 2026
Instructors
Jose Alonso Bellver
Dahlia Nielsen
Robert Franks
Fred Gould
Ignazio Carbone
Troy Ghashghaei
David Reif
Reade Roberts
Maxwell Scott
Jung-Ying Tzeng
David Aylor
Anna Stepanova
James Holland
Fikret Isik
Colleen Doherty
Anthony Blikslager
Matthew Breen
Benjamin Callahan
Gavin Conant
Michael Cowley
Shobhan Gaddameedhi
Rafael Guerrero
Caroline Laplante
Kurt Marsden
Susana Milla-Lewis
Santosh Mishra
Xinxia Peng
Antonio Planchart
Balaji Rao
Martha Burford Reiskind
Rubén Rellán-Álvarez
Emilie Rissman
Jean Ristaino
Michael Sikes
Caiti Heil
Casey Theriot
Jeff Yoder
Christina Zakas
Amanda Zhou
Meeting Patterns
Classes Start:
January 12, 2026
Classes End:
April 28, 2026
Room Number:
[TBA]
Class Days:
[TBA]
Class Type:
Thesis and Dissertation
Credits:
9.00
Restrictions:
Prerequisite: Doctoral student Graduate Genetics, Functional Genomics, Bioinformatics, Genetics and Genomics students only (GN, GF, GB, GG students only)