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Graduate Program

Requirements for Admission to the Graduate Program

Applicants to the PCMB Graduate Program must submit a completed OSU graduate application, transcripts of all prior college work, three letters of recommendation, a statement of purpose, and scores for the GRE General test.

Student Undergraduate course work in physics, calculus, and genetics as well as a background in plant sciences strengthens the application. International applicants must also submit scores from the TOEFL or Michigan Test of Written English. If an international applicant wishes to be considered for Graduate Teaching Associateship, scores from the Test of Spoken English (TSE) are also mandatory. In general, the department will not consider applicants with a grade-point average below 3.0, a TOEFL score below 500, or a Michigan Test score below 80. Each applicant will be evaluated on the basis of his/her complete application file, rather than by any single criterion.

Download OSU Graduate Application Forms

Domestic Students International Students

Admission Information [pdf]

Admission Information for International Applications [pdf]

Application for Admission [pdf]

Application for International Student [pdf]

Reference Form [pdf]

Affidavit of Financial Support for International Student [pdf]

 

Reference Form [pdf]

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PCMB Department application material required from all students.
Request PCMB Application from; or Address Correspondence to:

Graduate Secretary
Department of Plant Cellular and Molecular Biology
The Ohio State University
Room 500 Aronoff Laboratory
Columbus, OH 43210-1293
Phone: 614.292.8952
FAX: 614.292.6345

e-Mail: Rene Madsen


Click to obtain an electronic version of the PCMB Graduate Program Handbook [pdf]

 

Revised: 5-jul-07

PCMB NEWS

Erich Grotewold Receives Grant from US-Israeli Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund

We are pleased to announce that Erich Grotewold has been awarded another new grant. This is a 3-year award from the US-Israeli Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund. It is in the amount of $137,000 and is entitled "Regulation of tomato fruit development by interacting MYB proteins.".

Erich Grotewold Receives DOE And NSF Grants

Erich Grotewold has been awarded 3-year grant in the amount o $449,390 from the DOE, entitled "Engineering phenolic metabolism in the grasses using transcription factors."

Erich has also been awarded a second, major grant from NSF (Plant Genome). It is a 3-year award in the amount of $2,479,632 entitled "The Grass Regulome Initiative: Integrating control of gene expression and agronomic traits across the grasses.

David Somers' Lab Published In Nature

David Somers’ group has published an article in Nature (Sept. 20) entitled, “ZEITLUPE is a circadian photoreceptor stabilized by GIGANTEA in blue light.” Woe-Yeon Kim and Sumire Fujiwara are co-first authors.

Erich Grotewold Awarded USDA Grant

Erich Grotewold has been awarded a grant from the USDA in the amount of $201,025 for a two-year study entitled, “Transposons as gene control elements.”

Rebecca Lamb Receives OPBC Award

Rebecca Lamb has received an award of $57,567 over two years from the OPBC for a study entitled, ”Two Arabidopsis WWE-PARP proteins involved in abiotic stress response and development.”

Plant Biotechnology In-Floor Seminar Series Schedule

Follow the link below for a schedule of informal 30-40 min seminars that will take place at noon on Fridays in room 189 of Rightmire Hall.
Schedule [pdf]

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