Research Areas
Faculty and graduate students in SOLS are investigating pressing problems in the life sciences ranging in scale from molecules to global ecosystems, and in time from picoseconds to millennia. For each of the broad research areas below, you can find more detailed descriptions of current research foci, the faculty and graduate students working in this area, and the degree programs you can apply to for study in these areas.
- Animal Behavior and Sociobiology
- Bioenergy
- Bioethics, Policy and Law
- Biogeochemistry
- Biology and Society
- Ecology, Conservation and Environmental Sciences
- Evolution and Biodiversity
- Genetics, Cell and Developmental Biology
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Microbes
- Molecular Biology and Biomedical Sciences
- Neurobiology and Physiology