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Sample Curricula

See General Course Info for details. Shaded listings below indicate PIBS/CMB courses.

EXAMPLE 1: FOR A CMB STUDENT INTERESTED IN CANCER BIOLOGY
First year (PIBS)
Fall term
Second year (CMB)
Fall term
  PIBS 501/503 – Research skills / Research responsibility and Ethics (1 cr)
PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
or
CMB 630 – CMB Short Course (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
     
  BCHM 550 – Protein structure (3 cr)
HumGen 541 – Molecular genetics (3 cr)
Or
BCHM 550 – Protein structure (3 cr)
CDB 530 – Cell Biol (3 cr)
  MI/Path 553 – Cancer biol (3 cr)
CDB 530 – Cell Biology (3 cr)
Or
MI/Path 553 – Cancer biol (3 cr)
CDB 683 – Organogenesis: stem cells (2 cr)
Pharm 612 – Antimicrobial & cancer pharmacol (2 cr)
       
  First year (PIBS)
Winter Term
  Second year (CMB)
Winter Term
  PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
   
  Path 581 – Tiss, Cell and Molec Basis of Disease (3 cr)
Physio/HG 555 – Integrative Genomics (3 cr)
  BCHM 640 – Post-transcriptional gene regulation (2 cr)
Physio/BCHM 576 – Signal transduction (1 cr)
 
EXAMPLE 2: FOR A CMB STUDENT INTERESTED IN DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
First year (PIBS)
Fall term
Second year (CMB)
Fall term
  PIBS 501/503 – Research skills / Research responsibility and Ethics (1 cr)
PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
Or
CMB 630 – CMB Short Course (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
     
  CDB 530 – Cell Biology (3 cr)
BCHM 550 – Protein structure (3 cr)
  CDB 683 – Organogenesis: stem cells (2 cr)
CDB 684 – Organogenesis of complex tissues (2 cr)
BCHM 645 – Signal transduction and gene expression during development (3 cr)
       
  First year (PIBS)
Winter Term
  Second year (CMB)
Winter Term
  PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
   
  CDB 580 – Development (3 cr)
BCHM 650 – Mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription (3 cr)
  Physio/BCHM 576 – Signal transduction (1 cr)
PIBS 505 – Teaching skills (1 cr)
 
EXAMPLE 3: FOR A CMB STUDENT INTERESTED IN IMMUNOLOGY
First year (PIBS)
Fall term
Second year (CMB)
Fall term
  PIBS 501/503 – Research skills / Research responsibility and Ethics (1 cr)
PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
Or
CMB 630 – CMB Short Course (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
     
  CDB 530 – Cell Biology (3 cr)
BCHM 550 – Protein structure (3 cr)
  HumGen 541 – Molecular genetics (3 cr)
MI 615-617 – Virology modules (3 cr)
Path 643 – Immunopathological mechanisms of disease (1 cr)
       
  First year (PIBS)
Winter Term
  Second year (CMB)
Winter Term
  PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
   
  MI 640-642 – Molec & cell Immunol modules (3 cr)
MI 607-609 - Microbial pathogenesis modules (3 cr)
  Path 581 – Tiss, Cell and Molec Basis of Disease (3 cr)
Or
BCHM 675 – Protein trafficking (2 cr)
 
EXAMPLE 4: FOR A CMB STUDENT INTERESTED IN SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION
First year (PIBS)
Fall term
Second year (CMB)
Fall term
  PIBS 501/503 – Research skills / Research responsibility and Ethics (1 cr)
PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
Or
CMB 630 – CMB Short Course (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
     
  CDB 530 – Cell Biology (3 cr)
BCHM 550 – Protein structure (3 cr)
  Physio 510 – Integrative Physiology (4 cr)
Physiol/BCHM 591 – Selected topics in Signal Transduction (2 cr)
       
  First year (PIBS)
Winter Term
  Second year (CMB)
Winter Term
  PIBS 600 – Research Rotation (variable cr)
CMB 850 – CMB student seminar (optional, 1 cr)
CMB 850 – Student seminar (1 cr)
CMB 630 – Advanced topics in Molecular Biology (1 cr)
CMB 990 - Precandidate dissertation research (variable cr)
   
  Physio/BCHM 576 – Signal transduction (1 cr)
BCHM 650 – Mechanisms of eukaryotic transcription (3 cr)
Bioinf 525 – Survey of bioinformatics (2 cr)
  Physio/HG 555 – Integrative Genomics (3 cr)
   

 

 

   
 
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