Graduate Programs in Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary science that, by nature, requires a new paradigm in graduate training. Students enter bioinformatics by one of two pathways -- either from a life science background or from a computing background. The graduate programs at UNC Charlotte fuse life science and computing at a level of complexity that is beyond what can be achieved in an undergraduate degree. Students entering from the life sciences are provided with a sequence of two courses which will rapidly train them in the most relevant aspects of computer science, while students entering from computing and informatics or other quantitative disciplines are required to take a sequence of two courses in the aspects of biology and biochemistry most relevant to bioinformatics.
 

Department Chair:

• Dr. Lawrence Mays

Graduate Faculty:

• Anthony Fodor, Assistant Professor
• Xiuxia Du, Assistant Professor
  
• Cynthia Gibas, Associate Professor
• Jun-tao Guo, Assistant Professor
  
• Dennis Livesay, Associate Professor
• Ann Loraine, Associate Professor
  
• Lawrence Mays, Professor
• Susan Sell, Associate Professor
  
• Zhengchang Su, Assistant Professor
• Jennifer Weller, Associate Professor
  

Graduate Degree Programs in Bioinformatics at UNC Charlotte:

• Professional Science Masters in Bioinformatics 
• Ph.D. in Computing and Informatics (Bioinformatics track)