The department includes over 140 graduate students and 100 postdoctoral fellows from all over the world. About half the graduate students are working in the area of molecular/cell biology/developmental biology/genetics. There are about thirty five graduate students in the area of plant biology with roughly comparable numbers working on molecular and ecological topics. In population and ecological biology there are 20 graduate students, and there are 15 students working in marine biology at the Hopkins Marine Station.
Major research interests of the Department can be roughly divided into the following areas:
1.Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, &Genetics
2.Plant Biology
3.Population and Evolutionary Biology and Ecology
4.Marine Biology
