Education

Graduate Program in Bioinformatics

A graduate program in Bioinformatics will be developed on the University of Oklahoma Norman campus and expanded to other Network campuses over time.  This program will operate as a M.S. and Ph.D. degree-granting program.  The program is not an administratively independent unit, rather it represents an overreaching graduate program residing in five host departments.  Studies in Bioinformatics at the University of Oklahoma are centered primarily in the Departments of Botany/Microbiology, Chemistry/Biochemistry, Zoology, Health Sciences Center Microbiology and Immunology, and Computer Science.

http://www.ou.edu/cas/zoology/Bioinformatics

The primary academic goals of the proposed program are to educate students so that they may:

1.  Serve as faculty in colleges and universities of the state, nation, and international community

2.  Serve in private biotechnology industry

3.  Assume leadership roles in their academic disciplines

4.  Develop sophisticated abilities need to understand complex genomic data

5.  Develop helpful and novel ways of applying this knowledge and disseminating it to the public.