Synthetic Biology:Graduate

This is an active list of schools and labs that support graduate study in synthetic biology. Please add to and revise as appropriate. Currently, programs are listed by school in alphabetical order. Example labs and departments are listed too.


 * Boston University
 * Jim Collins, Biomedical Engineering
 * Tim Gardner, Biomedical Engineering


 * Caltech
 * Francis Arnold, Chemical Engineering
 * Michael Elowitz, Biology & Applied Physics


 * Duke
 * Lingchong You, Biomedical Engineering
 * Jingdong Tian


 * Harvard Medical School
 * George Church, Genetics
 * Pamela Silver, Systems Biology


 * MIT
 * Angela Belcher, Biological Engineering & Materials Science
 * Jones-Prather, Chemical Engineering
 * Tom Knight, EECS and CSAIL
 * Alexander van Oudenaarden, Physics


 * Princeton
 * Ron Weiss, EECS and Molecular Biology


 * Stanford
 * Drew Endy, Biological Engineering
 * Christina Smolke, Chemical Engineering & Bioengineering


 * UC Berkeley
 * Adam Arkin, Bioengineering
 * Jay Keasling, Bioengineering & Chemical Engineering


 * UC San Francisco
 * Tanja Kortemme
 * Wendell Lim
 * Chris Voigt


 * UT Austin
 * Andy Ellington
 * Edward Marcotte


 * Vanderbilt University
 * Anthony Forster, Pharmacology and Vanderbilt Institute of Chemical Biology

The following links were found here: http://systems-biology-research.blogspot.com/2007/10/where-you-can-study-systems-biology.html

They have not been updated lately. Feel free to make changes as you see fit.


 * Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
 * Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg - Biosystems Engineering (Undergraduate Program)


 * University of Stuttgart
 * University of Stuttgart - Engineering Cybernetics - Systems Biology research option (Bachelor and Master Program)


 * Jacobs University Bremen
 * Jacobs University Bremen - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Undergraduate Program)


 * University of Tokyo
 * University of Tokyo - Undergraduate Program for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology


 * UC Davis
 * UC Davis - Interdisciplinary Minor in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics (Undergraduate Program)


 * UCLA
 * UCLA - Computational And Systems Biology - Undergraduate Interdepartmental Program
 * UCLA - Biomedical Engineering Interdepartmental Program - Biocybernetics research option (Master and Doctoral Program)


 * Princeton University
 * Princeton University - "Integrated Science" (Undergraduate Program)
 * Princeton University - Undergraduate Certificate in Quantitative and Computational Biology


 * Iowa State University
 * Iowa State University - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Undergraduate Program)


 * Brown
 * Brown University - Computer Sciences Department - Undergraduate Concentration in Computational Biology


 * Cornell
 * Cornell University - Computational Biology Undegraduate Program
 * Tri-Institutional Training Program in Computational Biology and Medicine (Cornell University, Weill Cornell Medical College And Sloan-Kettering Institute)
 * Cornell University - College of Engineering - Biomedical Engineering Department - Systems Biology research option
 * Cornell University - Physiology, Biophysics and Systems Biology Graduate Program


 * Florida State
 * Florida State University - Undergraduate Program in Computational Biology


 * McGill
 * McGill University - Bachelor of Science, Minor in Computational Molecular Biology
 * McGill University - Human Systems Biology Graduate Track
 * McGill University - Physiology PhD Program (Quantitative &amp; Computational Concentration)


 * Case Western Reserve
 * Case Western Reserve University - Undergraduate Program in Systems Biology
 * Case Western Reserve University - Complex Systems Biology Center (Graduate Traning Program)


 * SUNY Binghamton
 * Binghamton University - Bioengineering Department (Undergraduate and Graduate Program)


 * Drexel
 * Drexel University - Center for Integrated Bioinformatics (Bachelor, Master And Doctoral Program)


 * UNC Chapel Hill
 * The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Training Program


 * Johns Hopkins
 * Johns Hopkins University - Biomedical Engineering Program (Bachelor, Master and PhD Program)


 * Ghent University
 * Ghent University - Department of Plant Systems Biology


 * U Toronto
 * University of Toronto - Department of Cell and Systems Biology


 * Freiburg
 * Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology


 * Trento
 * The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (Master and PhD program)


 * Keio University
 * Keio University - Center for Biosciences and Informatics (Master and PhD Program)


 * Kyoto University
 * Kyoto University - Department of Molecular and Systems Biology


 * Tokyo Medical and Dental University
 * Tokyo Medical and Dental University - School of Biomedical Science (Master and PhD Program)


 * Kanazawa University
 * Kanazawa University (Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering) - Bioinfomatics and Robotics - Systems Biology research option (Master Program)
 * Kanazawa University (Division of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) - Intelligent Systems and Information Mathematics - Systems Biology research option(Doctoral Program)


 * Tokyo Tech
 * Tokyo Tech - Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science - Genomic Cybernetics and Synthetic Biology research options (Master and Doctoral Program)


 * University of Tokyo
 * The University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Frontier Sciences - Department of Computational Biology
 * The University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Frontier Sciences - Department of Complexity Science and Engineering - Complex Systems Group - Complexity and Active Intelligence research option
 * The University of Tokyo - Graduate School of Frontier Sciences - Department of Frontier Informatics - Evolution and Complex Systems research option


 * NAIST
 * NAIST - Graduate School of Information Science - Systems Biology research option


 * Osaka University
 * Osaka University - Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences
 * Osaka University - Graduate School of Information Science and Technology - Department of Bioinformatic Engineering


 * Kyushu University
 * Kyushu University - Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences
 * Kyushu Institute of Technology - Graduate School of Computer Science and Systems Engineering - Department of Bioscience and Bioinformatics


 * Waseda University
 * Waseda University - Graduate School of Science and Engineering - Multidisciplinary Studies - Major in Integrative Bioscience and Biomedical Engineering


 * Tohoku University
 * Tohoku University - Graduate School of Information Sciences - Intelligent Control Systems research option


 * Weizmann Institute
 * Weizmann Institute of Science - Bioinformatics-Biology Track


 * KAIST
 * KAIST - Department of Bio and Brain Engineering


 * POSTECH
 * POSTECH - Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering


 * Universität Rostock
 * Universität Rostock - Computational Engineering - Systems Biology research option (Master of Science Program)


 * Technical University of Denmark
 * Technical University of Denmark - Biocentrum - MSc in Systems Biology


 * Telemark University Colleg
 * Telemark University College - Systems and Control Engineering Master Program - Systems Biology research option


 * Vrije University
 * Vrije University - Systems Biology (Master Program)


 * Universiteit van Amsterdam
 * Universiteit van Amsterdam - Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Master Programme


 * University of London
 * Birkbeck, University of London - MSc Bioinformatics with Systems Biology


 * Chalmers University of Technology And Göteborg University
 * Chalmers University of Technology And Göteborg University - Complex Adaptive Systems (Master Program)
 * Chalmers University of Technology And Göteborg University - Bioinformatics and Systems Biology (Master Program)


 * The Royal Institute of Technology
 * KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology) - Master Program in Computational and Systems Biology
 * KTH (The Royal Institute of Technology) - Ph.D. program in Automatic Control - Systems Biology research option


 * University of Turku
 * University of Turku - Biological Interactions - Graduate School


 * Glasgow University
 * Glasgow University - Department of Computer Sciences - Master Program - Systems Biology and Bioinformatics research option


 * University of Birmingham
 * University of Birmingham - MSc Natural Computation - Systems Biology research option


 * University College Cork
 * University College Cork - MSc in Applied Science (Computational Systems Biology)


 * Universidad Complutense de Madrid
 * Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Máster en Bioinformática y Biología Computacional


 * Universidad CEU San Pablo
 * Universidad CEU San Pablo - Master on Computational Biotechnology


 * University of Ulster
 * University of Ulster - Bioinformatics (Master program)
 * University of Ulster - The System Biology Regional Network - PhD projects on Systems Biology


 * Universidad de Navarra
 * Universidad de Navarra - Máster y Doctorado en Ingeniería Biomédica


 * UNAM
 * UNAM - Center for Genomic Sciences - Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Biomédicas - Computational Genomics Program


 * SUNY Stony Brook University
 * Stony Brook University - BioSystems Group - research opportunities leading to the Ph.D. degree
 * Stony Brook University - Physiology and Biophysics Graduate program


 * ETHZ and the University of Zurich
 * ETHZ and the University of Zurich - Master program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
 * ETHZ and the University of Zurich - University Research Priority Program Systems Biology / Functional Genomics - PhD projects on Systems Biology
 * ETHZ and the University of Zurich - Life Sciences Zurich Graduate School (PhD Programs)
 * ETHZ - Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering


 * Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology
 * Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology - Doctoral Training Centre
 * Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre


 * Warwick Systems Biology
 * Warwick Systems Biology - Doctoral Training Centre


 * University College London
 * University College London - CoMPLEX (PhD Programme)


 * Oxford University
 * Oxford University - Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre


 * The University of Sheffield
 * The University of Sheffield - Computational Systems Biology Group - PhD Opportunities


 * International Research Training Group
 * International Research Training Group (Berlin-Boston-Kyoto) - Genomics and Systems Biology of Molecular Networks


 * Max Planck Research School
 * International Max Planck Research School for Computational Biology and Scientific Computing


 * Harvard University
 * Harvard University - Department of Systems Biology (PhD Program)


 * MIT
 * MIT - Computational and Systems Biology PhD Program


 * Princeton
 * Princeton University - Graduate Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology


 * UC Irvine
 * UC Irvine - Mathematical, Computational and Systems Biology (Master and Doctoral Program)


 * UC Merced
 * UC Merced - Quantitative and Systems Biology (Master and Doctoral Program)


 * UCSD
 * UCSD - Systems Biology (Graduate Education and PostDoctoral Training)
 * UCSD, Salk Institute and Scripps Research Institute - Plant Systems Biology PhD Program


 * UCSF
 * UCSF - Integrative Program in Complex Biological Systems (Graduate Program)


 * CalTech
 * CalTech - Bioengineering Graduate Program - Synthetic and Systems Biology Sub-Option
 * CalTech - Control and Dynamical Systems Graduate Program - Systems Biology research option


 * University of Nebraska
 * University of Nebraska, Lincoln - Plant Systems Biology Graduate Program


 * Virginia Tech
 * Virginia Tech - Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology


 * Vanderbilt University
 * Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics


 * University of Chicago
 * University of Chicago - Ph.D. program in Biophysical Sciences - Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology research options


 * Emory University
 * Emory University - The Computational and Life Sciences Strategic Initiative


 * Texas A&M
 * Texas A&M Health Science Center - The College of Medicine - Department of Systems Biology and Translational Medicine (MD/PhD Program)


 * UT Southwestern Medical Center
 * UT Southwestern Medical Center - Molecular Biophysics Graduate Program - Emphasis in Quantitative Biology


 * Stanford University
 * Stanford University - Chemical and Systems Biology Department
 * Stanford University BIO-X program


 * UCSB
 * UCSB - Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship Program - Systems Biology research option


 * University of Pennsylvania
 * University of Pennsylvania - Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Genomics and Computational Biology


 * CMU-Pitt
 * CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology


 * Arizona State University
 * Arizona State University - Computational Biosciences (Master and PhD Program)


 * Texas Medical College
 * Interdisciplinary And Cross-Institutional PhD Program in Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics


 * Boston University
 * Boston University - Graduate Training Program in Quantitative Biology and Physiology


 * Brandeis University
 * Brandeis University - Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Quantitative Biology


 * Claremont Graduate University
 * Claremont Graduate University and KGI - PhD in Computational and Systems Biology


 * Columbia University
 * Columbia University - Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular and Biophysical Studies


 * Duke University
 * Duke University - PhD Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics


 * Rutgers University
 * Rutgers University - PhD Program in Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics


 * Indiana University
 * Indiana University - Systems Biology Graduate Program


 * Michigan State
 * Michigan State University - Quantitative Biology and Modeling PhD Program


 * NYU
 * New York University - PhD Program in Computational Biology


 * University of Rochester
 * University of Rochester Medical Center - Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology (Graduate Program)


 * Northwestern University
 * Northwestern University - Master of Science in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics


 * UC San Francisco
 * UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley - Bioengineering Graduate Program - Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Genomics research option
 * UC Berkeley - Graduate Group in Computational and Genomic Biology


 * Rice University
 * Rice University - Bioengineering Graduate Program - Computational and Theoretical Bioengineering Track


 * UC Riverside
 * UC Riverside - Bioengineering Graduate Program - BioCellular Engineering research option


 * University of Virginia
 * University of Virginia - Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program - Computational Systems Bioengineering research option


 * University of Washington
 * University of Washington - Bioengineering Graduate Program - Computational and Integrative Bioengineering research option


 * Purdue University
 * Purdue University - Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program - Computational and Systems Biology research option

Read this article for additional information regarding Synthetic Biology careers:

http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_magazine/previous_issues/articles/2008_10_17/caredit.a0800152