Education

Graduate Training at Duke:

Graduate training opportunities are available in DMC laboratories. Please inquire with individual investigators for openings and graduate program affiliations. DMC investigators are members of the following Duke Graduate training programs: Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology, University Program in Genetics and Genomics, Program in Cell and Molecular Biology, Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Program in Biomedical Engineering, and the Biology Graduate Program.

Outside Resources:

The Ohio State University has put together a set of online education resources:

Microbiome Informatics Webinar Series (Spring 2021) 

Graduate Courses at Duke:

Course #: Course Name: Instructor:
BIO 212L General Microbiology Amy Schmid
CEE 661L/BME 661L (Generally Spring Environmental Molecular Biotechnology
CEE 566 Environmental Microbiology Claudia Gunsch
BIOLOGY 668 Population Ecology
BIOLOGY 723 Statistical Computing for Biology Paul Magwene
BME 564L Genome Engineering
MGM 582 Microbial Pathogenesis Multiple Faculty
MGM720 Next Generation Sequencing Computation Tools
CMB733 Experimental Design and Statistics
BIOLOGY 525S/ CMB 525S Proteomic Methods in Life Sciences
CBB 520 Genome Tools and Technologies Fred Dietrich
CEE 562L (Spring) Applied Biology Principles in Environmental Engineering
BCH790S Chemical Biology of the Human Gut Microbiome
CEE 690 (Spring) Microbial Community ‘Omics
BIOLOGY 732 Food Web Theory Jean-Philip Gibert
BIOLOGY 665 Bayesian Inference for Environmental Models Jim Clark
BIOLOGY 557L* Microbial Ecology and Evolution Rytas Vigalys
BIOLOGY 554D Biogeochemistry Rytas Vigalys
BIOLOGY 522S Origins of Cellular Life Amy Schmid