Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy
The Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy's (OBA) graduate program in Integrative Biology trains students to pose strongly interdisciplinary research questions across fields in biology and among levels of biological organization. Faculty in our department engage a diverse range of topics in biology in the broad contexts of understanding how animals develop, evolve, and function. Please explore the faculty pages for details on the full breadth of research interests represented in the department, as well as the research page.
OBA's graduate student curriculum permits students to develop their own research focus and PhD project while also building a strong foundation in integrative biology under the active mentorship of our diverse faculty. Students in the Integrative Biology program take a variety of core and elective courses in which they are introduced to both to faculty research and to approaches to integrative research in organismal biology. Our students have the opportunity to utilize the diversity of expertise at the University of Chicago and affiliated institutions including the Field Museum of Natural History, Argonne National Laboratory and Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), and to take courses across the sciences and beyond. Beyond our thriving departmental academic community, there are numerous weekly seminar series exemplifying diverse aspects of the biological sciences (for example, evolution, ecology, behavior, integrative biology, development, genetics and molecular biology, neurobiology and computational neuroscience) that bring in researchers from around the world.
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