Education

Graduate Student Opportunities

The 18 FAME faculty members currently draw students from eight distinct programs, none of which combine biochemistry and evolution. 

The FAME trainees will benefit from several innovative training opportunities, including laboratory rotations with any FAME faculty member at Emory or Georgia Tech, interdisciplinary (and inter-institutional) thesis committees, the FAME student seminar series, the annual FAME symposium, the introductory FAME Seminar, the industrial internship program, and documentation of their “concentration in fundamental and applied molecular evolution”. 


Graduate School Program Choices

Interested students will formally apply to established Emory and Georgia Tech graduate programs. As a center, FAME does not have formal department ties, however students conduct research in FAME labs from the following Georgia Tech and Emory graduate programs:

Georgia Tech

Bioengineering
Biology
Biomedical Engineering
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Chemistry and Biochemistry

Emory

Biochemistry
Cell and Developemental Biology
Chemistry


Undergraduate Opportunities

SURE and FACES. The Emory Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) is a 10-week long laboratory intensive program supported by grants from the Howard Hughes Foundation, the NSF and the GDBBS.  The 70 available slots in this program are open to all students. SURE’s objectives are two-fold:  to provide research opportunities to promising students and to foster personal relationships with key individuals at HBCU’s so that they may refer interested students to Emory.

FOCUS and GEM.  Georgia Tech sponsors the FOCUS program to recruit underrepresented students