Microbiology - BS

As a student in Microbiology, you'll study the properties, characteristics, and interactions of micro-organisms and their effects on other organisms and the environment. Microbiology has been and continues to be at the forefront of those fields and technologies that contribute to human welfare and to our understanding of the basic mechanisms of life processes.

• Health, Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Academic Research, Education

• food, industrial, marine, and pharmacological microbiology

• Health Professions Post-graduate Programs; Molecular Biology; Cell Biology; Biochemistry; Developmental Biology; Cancer Biology

• University and industrial research laboratories

• Health professions including medical, dental, pharmacy, and veterinary centers.

• Our department focuses on the study of the mechanisms that regulate gene expression and function in micro-organisms including bacteria and ciliates, cultured animal cells, and animal models of infectious disease.

• Host interactions with microbial and viral pathogens, the molecular bases of pathogenesis, and mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity that confer protection from infectious disease are some of the areas of investigation by MCDB faculty and their students and postgraduate fellows.

• Our department often uses interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches spanning biochemistry, molecular and cellular biology, genomics and bioinformatics.

• Biochemistry-Molecular Biology

• Cell & Developmental Biology

• Pharmacology

• Molecular & Cellular Biology

• Genomics

• Quantative biology

• Cell biology

• Developmental biology

• Microbiology

• Human disease

• Biochemistry

• Neuroscience

• Systems biology

• Plant biology

• Biomedical sciences

• Biomaterials

https://undergrad.biology.ucsb.edu/microbiology