Graduate training involves both didactic and interactive teaching in Departmental and Cell and Molecular Biology courses as well as laboratory-based teaching of research techniques, planning and execution of experiments, critical evaluation and interpretation of research data and presentation of results to other scientists in both oral and written formats.

Confocal scanning laser microscopy image demonstrating four components in an atherosclerotic plaque from mouse aorta. The plaque components shown are: lipid (red), collagen III (green), smooth muscle actin (blue), and cell nuclei (yellow).