Continued Funding REQUIREMENTS

The following requirements are necessary to obtain and maintain funding through UC Riverside’s ChemGen IGERT program.

• Meet NSF’s eligibility requirement for funding as a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident.

• Enrollment as a PhD student in one of the following graduate programs:

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology
Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Chemistry
Computer Science and Engineering
Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics
Plant Biology
Plant Pathology

• Complete the degree requirements of their graduate program, including coursework, examination, teaching assistantship, seminar, annual report and dissertation requirements. Maintain a graduate GPA ≥ 3.5.

  2005-06 General Catalog

• Take two required ChemGen IGERT courses: (1) Chemical Genomics Design Studio [BIEN 220] and (2) Combinatorial Chemistry and Chemical Genomics [CHEM242].

• Take coursework in plant/fungal cell biology. Biologists are expected to take a graduate lecture course such as, Plant Cell Biology (BPSC237) or Plant Genome (BPSC/BCH232) or Signal Transduction in Microbes and Plants (CMDB205). Computer science and engineering students will take undergraduate coursework in biology to obtain competence in molecular/cellular biology.

• Attend and participate in the ChemGen IGERT colloquia and the annual IGERT Retreat.

• Entering graduate students are to complete at least two laboratory rotations, representing at least two disciplines (plant/fungal cell biology, chemistry, computer sciences and bioinformatics or chemical/biochemical engineering).

• Supervise and mentor a student in CEPCEB NSF-Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Plant Cell Biology for one summer (eight to nine-week project).

• Contribute six to eight hours to UCR’s Department of Education Copernicus Project for training high school biology teachers.

• Attend a research conference in secondary discipline with travel funds provided by the ChemGen Program. Attend and present at a research conference in primary discipline, with travel funds provided by the ChemGen Program.

• Complete a two-month internship at a company or other research institution to learn new research techniques to advance your doctoral research project.

• Establish a dissertation research project that incorporates methods of chemical genomics to advance knowledge of plant or fungal cell biology; immediately following advancement to candidacy, establish a dissertation committee that includes two co-major professors from the ChemGen Faculty Roster, representing two separate disciplines of the ChemGen Program.

• Coordinate all graduate support through the ChemGen IGERT program.

• Abide by the rules and guidelines of academic integrity for graduate students of UC Riverside

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