Requirements
Requirements for the Specialization to the Degree of Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy
Students must complete all requirements for the degree of Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy in the program in which they are enrolled. In addition, students must successfully complete one course from three of the following four areas:
- Quantitative Biology Lab
QBIO 120b: Quantitative Biology Instrumentation Laboratory
Director-approved QB lab courses offered outside of Brandeis, for example:
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory courses in Quantitative Imaging
- Marine Biological Laboratory courses, such as:
- Physiology: Modern Cell Biology Using Microscopic, Biochemical and Computational Approaches
- Analytical and Quantitative Light Microscopy; Optical Microscopy and Imaging in the Biomedical Sciences
- Quantitative Approaches to Biology
BCHM 102: Quantitative Approaches to Biochemical Systems
BIOL 103B: Mechanisms of Cell Biology
NBIO 240: Quantitative Principles of Neuroscience
- Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems
MATH 232a (formerly numbered as 162a): Numerical Methods for Scientific Computing
BCHM 145a: How to Decide: Bayesian Inference and Computational Statistics
- Computational Methods in Biology
BIOL 107a: Data Analysis and Statistics Workshop
NBIO 136b: Computational Neuroscience
QBIO 110a: Numerical Modeling of Biological Systems
COSI 178a: Computational Molecular Biology
BIOL 131b: Bioinformatics/Genomics