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The University of Georgia Integrated Life Sciences (ILS) Program provides:
- Training in emerging disciplines
- Interdisciplinary education
- Competitive financial support
- Customized research specializations
At UGA, you choose. The Integrated Life Sciences (ILS) Program allows first-year graduate students to explore the research areas of more than 150 faculty and 11 participating units, then choose a major professor and a departmental home at the end of the first year. A hallmark of this competitive graduate program is its emphasis on existing and emerging interdisciplinary research areas.
Wolfgang Lukowitz — Fertilization, and early cell-fate decisions in plant embryos. 
Fungal Biology — Fungi range from microscopic, single-celled yeasts to vast underground mycelial colonies covering hundreds of acres. They are heterotrophs that play major roles in recycling environmental carbon, cause diseases of plants and animals, and make many industrial products. Because they are more closely related to animals than to plants and because their biology and genetics are easily manipulated, fungi are great models organisms.