The Molecular Plant Scientists at Virginia Tech welcome you. We are a group of twenty internationally known faculty in seven departments in the Colleges of Agriculture, Science, and Natural Resources. All of us use molecular approaches to understand how plants grow and interact with their environments.
Our new Graduate Program in Molecular Plant Sciences allows students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree in this discipline to work in a wide variety of research areas, including plant genomics, disease resistance, metabolic engineering, bioproduction and bioprocessing, and forest biotechnology.
Degree candidates who enroll in the program will participate in several rotations through laboratories of interest. The program of study will include selections from a range of course offerings, tailored to the background and interests of each student. At the end of the first or second semester of enrollment, a permanent advisor is selected in whose laboratory the dissertation research will be conducted.
You can also download a brochure describing our program.
Latham Hall opened its doors to most of the program's faculty in June 2006.