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  • Graduate Group in Population Biology
    2320 Storer Hall
    Davis, CA 95616
    Tel: (530) 752-1274
    Fax: (530) 752-1449
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  • 250 Mrak Hall
    One Shields Avenue
    Davis, CA 95616

    Phone: (530) 752-0650
    Fax: (530) 752-6222
Population Biology

Application Deadline

  • 2013 ADMISSION
  • Final: Jan. 2

    2013 FELLOWSHIP
  • Prospective Student Fellowship: Jan. 2
  • Continuing Student Fellowship: Dec. 1

Degrees Offered

  • M.S. Plan II
  • Ph.D. Plan B

Designated Emphases

Admission Requirements

  • Three letters of recommendation
  • GRE scores (subject test in biology strongly recommended)
  • Official transcripts

Degree Requirements

Administrative Bylaws

Students gain advanced knowledge of population growth; structure and dynamics; population interactions; community ecology; food webs; biogeography; behavioral and physiological ecology; life history strategies; systematics; evolution; population and quantitative genetics; and genomics. Students graduate with the qualitative and quantitative skills necessary for professional research and teaching in ecology, evolution, population genetics and systematics.

While an M.S. degree may be obtained while pursuing a Ph.D. degree, only Ph.D. applications will be accepted.

This program is an interdisciplinary Graduate Group.

For more information, visit the Population Biology website.

Contacts

Program Chair
David J Begun Evolution & Ecology (530) 754-6362
Academic Advisers
David J Begun
(Adviser: Primary Contact) 		Evolution & Ecology 7/1/12 - 6/30/15 (530) 754-6362
Richard Karban
(Adviser: General) 		Entomology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-2800
David B Neale
(Adviser: General) 		Department Of Plant Sciences 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-8431
Sebastian Schreiber
(Adviser: Admissions and General) 		Population Biology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 754-9229
Michael Turelli
(Adviser: General) 		Evolution & Ecology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-6233
Philip S Ward
(Adviser: General) 		Entomology 9/1/11 - 8/31/13 (530) 752-0486
Graduate Program Staff Coordinator
Theresa Garcia Population Biology (530) 752-1274
Student Affairs Officer (SAO) in the Office of Graduate Studies
Laura Young Office of Graduate Studies (530) 752-2772