1. University of California, San Diego: The University offers Ph.D. program in Plant Systems Biology. This program is an interdisciplinary scheme between UCSD, Salk Institute, and Scripps Research Institute. Candidates with diverse backgrounds will be taught at the interface of systems modeling, computational genomics, and plant sciences. View for details: www.biology.ucsd.edu/psbigert/index.htm. Following are some cross discipline institutes:

2. The Evergreen State College: The University offers Graduate Program in Environmental Studies. This course combines environmental sciences with social sciences such as political economy and public policy.

3. The University of Alabama at Birmingham: This University offers M.S. and Ph.D. programs which includes areas like comparative and cellular physiology, reproduction and development, microbial ecology and physiology, and aquatic ecology.

4. Princeton University: The University has department for Graduate studies and Ph.D. with emphasis on evolutionary ecology; physiology; ecological and evolutionary genetics; epidemiology of infectious diseases; theoretical ecology; population and community ecology; behavioral ecology; atmosphere, global interactions among the biosphere, oceans, and climate; and conservation biology.

Following are some more universities which offer inter disciplinary courses in Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences:

1. Stony Brook University, State University of New York
2. Harvard University
3. University of California, San Diego
4. The University of Tennessee (Entomology)

1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: The Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology of the University offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary research training opportunities. Students who joined in this program learn to apply physical, experimental, and computational methods to biological problems. Full fledged list of research projects can be obtained from www.life.uiuc.edu/biophysics. Following are some universities with emphasis on Cross-Discipline research.

2. Princeton University: The Department of Molecular Biology encourage education and research in molecular, biochemical, and genetic approaches.

3. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus: The institute provides interdisciplinary programs in biophysics, medical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy, radiobiology, and radiation therapy physics. It also offers financial aid for limited number of students.

4. The University of Iowa: The University offers MS and PhD programs which are based on in vivo and in vitro study of biological systems. For more information about the programs, visit, www.uihealthcare.com/depts/med/radiationoncology/frrb/index