Are there graduate students at Janelia Farm?
Yes. Although Janelia Farm does not grant degrees, we are committed to providing an outstanding environment for graduate students to pursue their research. Doctoral students provide a unique perspective and the social glue that binds research groups together. Such students often communicate across unexpected lines and initiate innovative avenues of collaborative research. Janelia Farm provides a research and intellectual environment for graduate students where the small size of individual research groups and the highly interactive and collaborative, interdisciplinary culture provides a strong training and mentoring environment. We have established partnerships with two degree-granting institutions that permit Janelia Farm lab heads to serve as thesis advisers to these students: the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge. Students are admitted to either Chicago or Cambridge and to a particular research group at Janelia. Students are expected to receive their Ph.D. degrees in 4 to 5 years
