Courses

Microbiology 504 [3 cr.]

Cellular Biotechnology. Course Director: Anne Vojtek. Provides an overview and integration of six disciplinary foci: cell biology and culture ecology and evolution molecular genetics and protein engineering bioseparation and processing biosensing and analysis cellular modeling, prediction, and control.. Winter term.

Microbiology 510 [3 cr.] - currently not offered

Mathematical Models of Infectious Diseases. Calculus I and II and introductory microbiology. Undergrads need permission of instructor. The objective of this course is to present a detailed introduction to modeling host-pathogen interactions and a brief discussion of modeling at the population level. Fall term of even years only.

Microbiology 512 [2 cr.]

Introduction to Scientific Communication. Course Director: Lori Isom. Cross listed course - Pharmacology 502. This course introduces graduate students to essential scientific communication skills.  Beginning with the relatively easy task of learning to search the literature over the Internet and ending with the challenges of writing an NRSA grant application and giving a short seminar, each student will develop confidence in both written and spoken scientific communication.  Prerequisite:  Must be in the second year or higher of a PIBS-related graduate program. Winter term. A course syllabus can be found here.

Microbiology 553 [3 cr.]

Cancer Biology. Course Director: Mark Day. This course will cover a broad range of subjects relating to cancer biology. Emphasis is on the relationship between basic science and clinical aspects of cancer. Fall term.

Microbiology 599 [1-8 cr.]

Independent non-Dissertation Research for Graduate Students. Permission of instructor. Students may undertake independent library or laboratory research study under the supervision of an appropriate faculty member. May be taken any term.

Microbiology 607 [2 cr.]

Microbial Pathogenesis. Introductory microbiology or permission of course director. Course Directors: Victor DiRita and Philip Hanna.  Topics include regulatory mechanisms of pathogens, toxins and toxinogenesis, secretion, adherence and invasion. The course is literature-based, although each session begins with a discussion by the instructor to provide context and background for papers under discussion.   Primarily covers bacterial pathogens. Winter term.

Microbiology 615 [2 cr.]

Molecular and Cellular Determinants of Viral P Pathogenesis. Microbiology 503 recommended or permission of course director required. Course Directors: Akira Ono and Katherine Spindler. Concepts of viral pathogenesis and controls. Fall term.

Microbiology 619 [1 cr.]

Special Topics Fall 2007 - Cell cycle of eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Course Director: Stephen Cooper. This lecture course (with discussion) will cover the concepts, experiments, and current views of the eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell cycle.  A central theme will be to critically analyze the current, dominant, consensus model of the cell cycle and to contrast this standard model with the Continuum Model of the cell cycle. A secondary theme will be to relate the bacterial cell cycle to the eukaryotic cell cycle. Among the classes of experiments that will be analyzed are protein and mRNA assays, microarray assays, methods of synchronization (that work and do not work), non-synchrony methods to analyze the cell cycle, and specific cell cycle results such as those with cyclins, Rb protein and related proteins, and those proteins proposed to be cell-cycle controlling or controlled. The emphasis of the lectures and discussions will be on control of cell growth and division.  There are no pre-requisites for this course, and no prior knowledge is expected except for some understanding of DNA, RNA, and proteins.

Special Topics Winter 2008 - Course Director: Vernon Carruthers. Parasite diseases remain among the most neglected and understudied human maladies, yet they have a tectonic impact on human heath throughout most of the world. Students enrolled in this literature-based module will gain an appreciation for key aspects of a spectrum of human parasites including protozoan and metazoan (worm) pathogens, thereby broadening their perspective on global infectious diseases.

Microbiology 630 [1 cr.]

Short Course - Special Topics in Genetics. Human Genetics 630. Lectures are open to anyone interested, but only Genetics Training Grant students and CMB students may register for this course. Please contact the Cellular and Molecular Biology department for fall term schedule and the Human Genetics department for winter term schedule.

Microbiology 640 [3 cr.]

The immunology modules are being combined into one course starting winter 2008.

Molecular and Cellular Immunology. Physics, Biology 305 and Biol. Chem. 415 and MCDB 436/Micrbiol 502 and graduate standing; permission of instructor for undergraduates or NCFD. Course Director: Dr. Malini Raghavan. This three-credit course will be focused upon molecular and cellular aspects of vertebrate immunology. Topics to be covered include: Mechanisms of antigen recognition in innate and adaptive immunity; antigen processing and presentation; the MHC; generation of diversity in immune receptors; B and T cell development, activation, differentiation, death and effector functions; Mechanisms of homeostasis and immunosuppression; NK cells and other innate immune cell types, immunological tolerance and its breakdown; microbial immunity; and immune cell signal transduction. The course will include both didactic lectures and discussion-type seminars based upon contemporary research papers. A previous introductory course in immunology is recommended. Winter term.

Microbiology 812 [1 cr.]

Microbiology Seminar. Microbiology and Immunology Graduate Students. Course Director: Alice Telesnitsky. An analysis of advances at the frontiers of microbiology. Every microbiology graduate student is required to enroll in this course each semester. Students give one seminar per year on a journal article or their own research.

Microbiology 995 [8 cr.]

Candidate Dissertation Research. Graduate School authorization for admission as a doctoral candidate. Election for dissertation work by Microbiology and Immunology doctoral students who have been advanced to status as candidates. All terms.