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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.
Debra Mohnen — Biosynthesis and function of the plant cell wall polysaccharide pectin. Anti-cancer effects of pectin. 
Chemical Biology — Chemical Biology is an interdisciplinary field of study that bridges the traditional fields of chemistry and biology, applying chemical methods to problems in biology. Often, the tools used are compounds produced through synthetic chemistry that are designed with guidance from structural biology to manipulate physiological processes, providing insight as to how these processes work and sometimes leading to the creation of new function.