Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)
EEB focuses on understanding biological systems at the individual, population and community levels of organization utilizing both plant and animal systems. Major areas pursued by the group include vertebrate functional morphology, the adaptive significance of animal behavior, sexual selection, plant population genetics, evolutionary genetics, marine community ecology, and theoretical and community ecology.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/EEB/
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (MCB)
MCB recognizes the emergence of common conceptual and experimental aspects of investigation in biochemistry, genetics, virology, immunology, pathology, and cellular, developmental and molecular biology. This program provides the student with a firm background in research encompassing biochemistry and cellular, developmental and molecular biology.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Molecular_Biology/
Molecular Microbiology and Immunology (MMI)
MMI supports the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral education by providing an exciting and modern research environment focused on understanding infectious disease. The department's overall mission is to maintain an active and integrated research program for studying the interactions between pathogenic microorganisms and their hosts. We foster collaborative studies within the department as well as with faculty in other departments, both on campus and hospital-based. We provide instruction and a nurturing environment for undergraduate, graduate, and medical students in the areas of microbiology and immunology. MMI's instruction includes lecture courses, seminar courses, and laboratory research (both undergraduate independent study and graduate thesis). Specialty areas of our faculty's research include: molecular virology and parasitology, bacterial pathogenesis, innate and adaptive immune responses to pathogens, cancer immunity, and signal transduction. State-of-the art core facilities in genetics, genomics, proteomics, flow cytometry, and structural biology are all utilized extensively by faculty and students in MMI.
Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology (MPPB)
MPPB is supported by a range of faculty research from molecules to cells, tissue, organs, and whole organisms and are grounded in a solid base of chemistry, physics, math and biology. Specialty areas of study include: molecular and structural pharmacology; signal transduction; drug design; neuropharmacology and neurophysiology; the molecular and cellular basis for drug addiction; macromolecular structure; cellular, comparative, and organ systems physiology; biomaterials; novel drug delivery modalities; organ replacement, tissue engineering, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine.
http://bms.brown.edu/mppb/index.html
Neuroscience
Neuroscience offers a program of study in the fields of knowledge important to an understanding of brain function. Neuroscience is an interdisciplinary program bringing together neurobiology (anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, development) with elements of psychology and cognitive science, as well as mathematical and physical principles involved in modeling neural systems.
http://neuroscience.brown.edu/undergrad.html
Pathology
Pathology provides research training for pre-doctoral and postdoctoral trainees in basic mechanisms of disease related to environmental exposures including radiation, electromagnetic fields, stress, mineral fibers, and chemicals. Trainees will apply the tools of morphology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology to explore the causes and pathogenesis of cancer, reproductive dysfunction, and immune dysfunction related to environmental exposures. Program Strengths: experimental carcinogenesis; reproductive toxicology; pulmonary toxicology; immunotoxicology; chemical toxicity; radiation biology; xenobiotic metabolism; gene expression.
http://biomed.brown.edu/Biology_Programs/PathologyProgram/GradProgram.html