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The Program in Organismal and Integrative Biology
(OIB) is a framework for doctoral study within the Graduate
School of Arts & Sciences at Yale University
 OIB
was created in response to changing opportunities for cross-disciplinary
research in the biological sciences. New theory, empirical
findings and technological developments promise unification
of formerly disparate biological fields through research approaches
that are actively synthetic, reaching across levels of organization
to uncover fundamental organizing principles of biology.
Our goal is to create an environment for doctoral study providing
diverse resources and encouraging broad intellectual development.
Entering students are admitted to an OIB Advanced Topics course
in which faculty from across the University introduce students
to perspectives from different realms within organismal and
integrative biology. Subject-areas include ecology, demography,
evolutionary biology, evolutionary developmental biology,
conservation biology, bio-geography, epidemiology, systematics,
behavioral biology, vector biology, paleontology and paleo-biology.
Resources include the world-renowned Peabody Museum of Natural
History, over 13,000 acres of University owned lands ranging
from coastal marsh to northern coniferous forest, and cutting
edge technological tools (such as mass spectrometers, remote
sensing facilities, and high throughput gene sequencers).
Participating faculty emphasize the use of comparative and
integrative contexts for research conducted in both laboratory
and field. Examples of ongoing research projects include:
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