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Stony Brook offers an excellent environment for students and faculty with
research interests in the life sciences. Evidence that Stony Brook has become
established as a premier research institution comes from a recent citation
impact study that ranks Stony Brook as one of the top ten universities in
America with respect to the quality of research in molecular biology done
over the last decade. One advantage is that the undergraduate and medical
schools are located on the same campus. This promotes interactions between
the faculties of these two schools, especially in areas of common interest.
In fact, the graduate program in Molecular and Cell Biology at Stony Brook
was formed both in response to the tremendous overlaps in the scientific interests
of several different individual graduate programs and in response to their
shared goal of providing a high-quality graduate training program.
The educational experience at Stony Brook is not defined solely by courses
and individual research projects. All of the departments at Stony Brook that
are affiliated with the program as well as the Brookhaven National Laboratory
and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory sponsor seminar series in which outstanding
visiting scientists present recent research findings. These seminars provide
students with the opportunity to enrich and broaden their learning experience
and to meet with these visitors. Students can also take advantage of several
major international symposia each year. These include, for example, an annual
Stony Brook Symposium on Molecular Biology, an annual M.D./Ph.D. Symposium,
an annual Symposium on Molecular Medicine, and several internationally renowned
meetings at Cold Spring Harbor.
Students in the Graduate Programs in Molecular and Cell Biology, and in Biochemistry
and Structural Biology, have access to state of the art research facilities
and equipment. Core facilities on the Stony Brook campus for monoclonal antibody
production, transgenic mouse generation, protein and nucleic acid sequencing,
peptide synthesis, analytical and preparative HPLC, mass spectrometry, and
confocal, and scanning and transmission electron microscopy are available
to all program participants. State-of-the-art facilities are also available
for biochemistry and structural biology. The Center for Structural Biology
has several high-field NMR instruments and facilities for x-ray crystallography.
With close ties to the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook takes advantage
of the high-energy beam lines for diffraction studies. Throughout the programs
there are state-of-the-art equipment for protein purification and analysis,
including Raman, infrared, fluorescence and CD spectrophotometers.
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