For more than 20 years, graduate students at the State
University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook have come to Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory for their doctoral research. Laboratory faculty have advised
students involved in the Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Molecular
Genetics and Microbiology, and Neurobiology and Behavior graduate programs
at SUNY Stony Brook. Today, approximately 50 Ph.D. and M.D.-Ph.D. students
from these SUNY Stony Brook graduate programs study at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory. The collaborative programs allow students to work with scientists
from SUNY Stony Brook, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and Brookhaven National
Laboratory in their areas of specialization. Students in these shared programs
perform their course work at SUNY Stony Brook and may perform laboratory
rotations and doctoral research at any of the three institutions. Students
who choose to study at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory participate in the
weekly graduate student seminar series and the other seminar programs, irrespective
of their degree program.
The SUNY Stony Brook graduate programs that collaborate with Cold Spring
Harbor Laboratory are described below. Most faculty at Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory participate in more than one program. For more information about
each program, we encourage students to visit the Web sites listed.
Genetics. The Genetics Program is
a tri-institutional graduate program with approximately 70 faculty members
from SUNY Stony Brook, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory. It includes the largest number of faculty from Brookhaven National
Laboratory and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory of all the shared graduate
programs. Faculty interests vary widely and include classical, developmental,
and molecular genetics, as well as genomics and evolution. For more information,
see the Web site at http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/gen.
Molecular and Cellular Biology. The
interdepartmental Molecular and Cellular Biology Program is the largest
biomedical graduate program at SUNY Stony Brook, with 100 faculty members.
Twelve faculty from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory participate in this program.
The research interests of faculty include biochemistry, biophysics, microbiology,
pharmacology, and structural biology. For more information, see the Web
site at http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/mcb.
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology. The
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at SUNY Stony Brook supports
its own graduate program, in which several Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
faculty participate. For more information, see http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/microbiology
on the Web.
Neurobiology and Behavior. The Department
of Neurobiology and Behavior at SUNY Stony Brook recently invited the neurobiology
faculty at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to participate in this program.
Collectively, the SUNY Stony Brook and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neurobiologists
represent a wide range of research interests. For more information, see
http://www.neurobio.sunysb.edu
on the Web.
