Ph.D. Qualifying Written Exam

Students must pass exams in 4 topics. Topics must be selected such that two of them are from one subject area and two of them are from the remaining subject areas*. Main subjects and the topics are listed below.

*One of the topics may be selected from the topics of other PhD programs with the approval of the student's adviser.

Subject areas and topics:

Plant Biotechnology:

1. Plant molecular biology and genetics

2. Plant physiology

3. Plant biotechnology

Molecular Biology

1. Applied protein engineering

2. Molecular biology and biochemistry

3. Cell biology

Bioinformatics

1. Computational biology

2. Structural biology

3.Computational genome analysis.