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  • Graduate Group in Immunology
    c/- VM: PMI - 5217 VM3A
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 754-0103
    Fax: (530) 752-3349
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Immunology

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Priority: Dec. 15
  • Final: Apr. 15

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Dec. 15
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan I
  • M.S. Plan II by exception only
  • Ph.D. Plan C

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Applicants are encouraged to submit a CV or resume.
  • Statement of Purpose & Statement of Personal History
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • The Graduate Group accepts application for M. S. Plan I and PhD. Successful PhD applicants are accepted into a rotation program. This allows the student to experience research in up to four different laboratories during their first year of study. A research mentor (major professor) is chosen following completion of the rotation program. Direct placement of a PhD student with a major professor is done under exceptional circumstances only.
  • GRE scores (subject tests will be considered but are not required)

Degree Requirements

Students follow the degree requirements reflecting the year s/he was admitted or the most recent version below.

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of the cells and tissues of the mammalian immune system; host immune responses to infection, tissue damage and tumors; immune signaling and regulation; allergic and autoimmune disease pathogenesis; vaccine development; nutritional immunology; and the use of immune mediators for diagnosis and treatment of disease. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary to design of experiments and interpretation of data relevant to the development and function of the immune system and for teaching in immunology.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Immunology website.

Contacts

Program Chair
Charles L Bevins Med Microbiology (530) 754-6889
Academic Advisers
Paul Ashwood
(Adviser: General) 		Med Microbiology 9/1/12 - 6/30/14 (916) 703-0405
Nicole Baumgarth
(Adviser: General) 		Center for Comparative Medicine 9/1/12 - 6/30/14 (530) 754-5813
Charles L Bevins
(Adviser: Admissions Only) 		Med Microbiology 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 754-6889
Laurel J Gershwin
(Adviser: General) 		Vet Med Pathology, Micro & Immun 9/1/12 - 6/30/14 (530) 752-6643
Scott I Simon
(Adviser: General) 		Biomedical Engineering 9/1/12 - 8/31/14 (530) 752-0299
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Jessica Drushell Immunology (530) 754-0103
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Laura Young Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772