Plant & Microbial Biology at UC Berkeley provides outstanding academic opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students. Our cutting-edge research by the world's foremost scientists is at the forefront of the latest advances in the biological sciences. 

Also known as PMB, we are proud of our internationally acclaimed research and teaching programs in both plant and microbial biology.   We are regularly ranked as excellent for our academics and research at the top-ranked public university, UC Berkeley, where our mission is furthering scientific exploration for the public good.

PMB offers outstanding programs in undergraduate and graduate education.

Our faculty is consistently recognized for excellence in teaching, and are praised by students for inspiring and illuminating lectures, seminars, presentations and instructional research labs.

The excitement and initiative our faculty shows in the classrom is contagious, and time and again students have said that it is a class taken by one of our instructors that inspired them to pursue a career in science. Our graduate program is second to none. Each graduate student in our PhD program receives one-on-one guidance, full funding and mentoring by the top scientists and instructors in their field. 

Faculty, students and staff at PMB include a wide variety of researchers, academics and associates.

We collaborate heavily and reach out to additional faculty at UC Berkeley and our associates for partnerships in science and research.

Our Graduate Group in Microbiology includes a wide circle of faculty partnering with PMB and offering research opportunities to our graduate students.