微生物学和免疫学哲学博士

微生物学和免疫学系是斯坦福大学14个“家庭计划”之一，该计划合作招募和培训生物科学领域的研究生。学生最多申请三个此类课程，然后再参加其中一个。顾名思义，“家”计划就是学生的家，从中可以探究斯坦福大学所提供的一切。可以在大学的任何生物科学实验室（总共超过280个）中进行为期三个月（四分之一）的研究轮换，但是至少必须在家庭计划的一部分实验室中进行一次轮换，对于我们而言，这意味着超过25名教职员工。根据这些研究轮换选择最终的论文实验室，虽然大多数学生最终都停留在原始的家庭计划中，但是在轮换过程中发现新激情的人可
The Department of Microbiology and Immunology is one of 14 Stanford home programs that cooperatively recruit and train graduate students in the Biosciences. Students apply to up to three such programs and then enter through one. As the name implies, the home program serves as the student's home from which to explore all that Stanford has to offer. Research rotations lasting three months (one quarter) can be done in any bioscience lab in the University (a total of over 280) but at least one must be done in a lab that is part of the home program, in our case, that means over 25 faculty. The final thesis lab is chosen based on these research rotations and while most student ends up staying in the original home program, ones who discover a new passion during their rotations can transfer to a different home program or simply stay within the M&I home but do their thesis work outside the Department (assuming their thesis work will bear at least some connection to our discipline). In the autumn of their second year, students take their qualifying exam, which is a oral defense of an original research idea on some topic other than their eventual thesis project. In the spring of this same year, each student presents a research proposal that will form the basis of the PhD thesis. All students are required to obtain some teaching experience, usually by serving as a teaching assistant in at least one department course. The normal time for completion of the PhD is about 5 to 5.5 years.