As IU Director of the IGERT program, I invite you to participate in our training grant from the National Science Foundation – focusing on interdisciplinary research and training in Evolution, Development, and Genomics.

Our interdisciplinary IGERT training group at IU includes 31 faculty belonging to several graduate programs that award Ph.D.'s, including Molecular Biology and Genetics, Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior, and Microbiology. Other important affiliates include the Molecular Biology Institute and the Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics. The program sponsors a weekly seminar series and journal club - managed by the students. We maintain strong intellectual interactions with our partner institution in the IGERT: the University of Oregon via faculty and student exchanges, as well as an annual student-organized and run symposium.

The goal of our program is to train graduate students to tackle emerging problems in biology that lie at the interface of evolution, development, genomics, and bioinformatics, by combining expertise at the University of Oregon and Indiana University. At IU, we support six graduate trainees; an equivalent number are supported at UO. Please look at our website and let us know if we can answer your questions.

Director, Evolution, Development and Genomics IGERT at IU Bloomington