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Department Facts

21 tenure track faculty
150 undergraduate declared majors
60 graduate students
$6M annual research funding

Research Areas

• biochemistry
• biophysics
• cell and developmental biology
• computational biology
• extracellular matrix
• metabolic engineering
• microbiology
• molecular genetics
• neurobiology
• plant biology
• signal transduction
• systems biology
• structural biology
• synthetic biology

Degrees Offered

BA in Biochemistry and Cell Biology
BA in Biological Sciences
BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology
BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
MA and PhD in Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Accelerated Rice BA–BS/PhD Program in Biochemistry and Cell Biology