The BBS Track

BBS Director: Anthony J. Koleske
BBS Administrative Director: John Alvaro

The main functions of the Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) concern recruitment of students, direction of their course of study in their first year at Yale, and assignment to the academic departments for their subsequent course of study including their thesis research.

Applicants apply to one of the seven tracks of the BBS rather than to an individual department or an individual investigator.  Applicants to each track are evaluated by an admissions committee made up of faculty affiliated with the track, and they are admitted to the BBS and not to an individual department.

The tracks are designed to be more interdisciplinary and more broadly based than the departments. There are currently eight tracks:

Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics 

Immunology 

Microbiology  

Molecular Cell Biology, Genetics and Development (MCGD) 

Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology and Physiology

Neuroscience 

Plant Molecular Biology