Seeking information on undergraduate programs/majors in genomics and/or genome biology?

I am looking around to find examples of undergraduate programs/majors in genomics or genome biology.  I got a couple of potential examples from a post I made on friendfeed but am looking for more.  What I am looking for is not just courses in genomics but majors/programs in genomics … do they exist and if so, where and what do they look like.  Any information would be helpful.  Here is what I have found so far:

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This is from the “Tree of Life Blog”
of Jonathan Eisen, an evolutionary biologist and Open Access advocate
at the University of California, Davis. For short updates, follow me on Twitter.

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Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis

6 thoughts on “Seeking information on undergraduate programs/majors in genomics and/or genome biology?”

  2. i have very mixed feelings about undergrad programs in genetics/genomics/bioinformatics. i chaired the grad program in genetics for a number of years at penn state, and truly believe that our best students came from a broadbased biology degree program. some had a concentration in genetics/genomics courses.

    to date, i am very impressed with PU’s (not PSU’s) < HREF="http://www.princeton.edu/integratedscience/" REL="nofollow">integrative sciences program/approach<>, in part, because it emphasizes many of the tools of biogeninformatomics — but seems to be much less restrictive in terms of topical study. we’ll see how it goes.

    i understand that some subgroup of students wants to ‘major’ in b.g.i.o. and some subgroup of adminstrators wants to say ‘we have a program’; but, some days, i really think that undergrads desperately need a richer, broader background to bring to the table — and if we have new cash to spend… recommit to our undergrad biology curricula.

    just my $.02…

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  5. David Botstein has sent me some information about some related activities at Princeton:

    “At Princeton we have a new
    integrated introductory science program

    http://www.princeton.edu/integratedscience/

    that leads naturally (for ca. 1/2 of the students who
    take integrated science) to a certificate in quantitative
    and computational biology

    http://www.princeton.edu/integratedscience/certificate/
    http://genomics.princeton.edu/topics/certificate.html

    that features a lot of genomics.

    Students with more interest in genomics and
    quantitative and computational biology at Princeton might
    want to browse the website of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for
    Integrated Genomics, which offers all these programs.

    http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/index.html

    The programs of the Institute (both research and teaching,
    which we believe are and should be intimately intertwined)
    are supported by NIGMS through the Center for Quantitative
    Biology

    http://quantbio.princeton.edu/“

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