Department: Microbiology and Immunology

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MI115B The Vaccine Revolution Advanced seminar. Human aspects of viral disease, focusing on recent discoveries in vaccine development and emerging infections. Journal club format: students choose articles from primary scientific literature, write formal summaries, and synthesize...
MI155A Humans and Viruses I Introduction to human virology integrating epidemiology, molecular biology, clinical sciences, social sciences, history, and the arts. Emphasis is on host pathogen interactions and policy issues. Topics: polio and vaccination, smallpox and eradicatio...
MI155B Humans and Viruses II Introduction to human virology integrating epidemiology, molecular biology, clinical sciences, social sciences, history, and the arts. Emphasis on host pathogen interactions and policy issues. Topics: measles and viral epidemiology, rotavirus and wor...
MI160 Climate Crisis Management Ongoing climate change has precipitated a broad range of crises including extreme weather, fires, droughts, crop-failures, and emerging infections along with a broad range of health effects. Within recent years these events have become more frequent...
MI198 Directed Reading in Microbiology and Immunology Fields of study are decided in consultation with sponsoring professor. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
MI199 Undergraduate Research Investigations sponsored by individual faculty members. Possible fields: microbial molecular biology and physiology, microbial pathogenicity, immunology, virology, and molecular parasitology. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
MI200 Cellular and Molecular Immunology: An Introductory Course Mechanisms of immune responses in health and disease. Innate and adaptive immunity; development of the immune system; molecular biology, structure, and function of antibodies and T-cell receptors; cellular basis and regulation of immune responses; in...
MI210 Advanced Pathogenesis of Bacteria, Viruses, and Eukaryotic Parasites For graduate and medical students, and advanced undergraduates; required of first-year graduate students in Microbiology and Immunology. The molecular mechanisms by which microorganisms invade animal and human hosts, express their genomes, interact w...
MI215 Principles of Biological Technologies The principles underlying novel as well as commonly utilized techniques to answer biological questions. Lectures and primary literature critiques on topics such as fluorescence microscopy, including applications such as FRET and single-cell analysis...
MI217 Genome Editing: Redefining Humanity Genome Editing is potentially the most important biological/medical strategy ever developed. Genome Editing has been used to manipulate diverse organisms and viruses including bacteria, plants, insects, nonhuman animals, human remediation, and treatm...
MI218 Computational Analysis of Biological Information: Introduction to Python for Biologists Computational tools for processing, interpretation, communication, and archiving of biological information. Emphasis is on sequence and digital microscopy/image analysis. Intended for biological and clinical trainees without substantial programming e...
MI221 Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease Preference to graduate students. Focus is on the human gut microbiota. Students will receive instruction on computational approaches to analyze microbiome data and must complete a related project.
MI250 Frontiers in Microbiology and Immunology Required of first- and second-year students in Microbiology and Immunology. How to evaluate biological research. Held in conjunction with the Microbiology and Immunology Friday noon seminar series. Before the seminar, students and faculty discuss one...
MI255 Measles and Sneezles and Things That Go Mumps in the Night A study of measles (until recently one of the leading causes of death in the world and the most contagious disease agent ever studied) and its relatives in the paramyxovirus family, including mumps, parainfluenza viruses, hendra, and nipah, as well a...
MI255C Life in the Coronascene Since 2020, COVID has transformed the world medically, socially, politically, scientifically, economically, and psychologically. Even as innovative vaccines and medications have helped to mitigate the most damaging impacts of this pandemic, ongoing c...
MI260 Creative Visualization Studio In this class, we will teach students to build small, physical explanations of their data for display and use as visual aids in person, at a poster or in a talk. We will use a range of media, including laser cutters, paper cutters, silk screening, CN...
MI27SC Viruses in the News Viruses are unique biological entities that resemble both living and inanimate objects. Despite their simple structure they include some of the most devastating and ubiquitous causes of human disease. From smallpox to measles to HIV to the common...
MI28SC Desert Biogeography of Joshua Tree National Park The course will cover the features which make Joshua Tree National Park unique including the fact that it is at the confluence of two deserts. We will also look at the park in the context of comparative desert biography, including prominent deserts o...
MI299 Directed Reading in Microbiology and Immunology Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
MI343C Preparing for Faculty Careers For graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from all disciplines who are considering a faculty career of any type and at any of a broad range of institutions. Numbers are limited and so whether formally registered (grad students) or attending as a...
MI370 Medical Scholars Research Provides an opportunity for student and faculty interaction, as well as academic credit and financial support, to medical students who undertake original research. Enrollment is limited to students with approved projects.
MI399 Graduate Research Students who have completed the necessary foundation courses undertake investigations in general bacteriology, bacterial physiology and ecology, bacterial genetics, microbial pathogenicity, immunology, parasitology, or virology sponsored by individua...
MI70Q Photographing Nature Utilizes the idiom of photography to learn about nature, enhance observation, and explore scientific concepts. Builds upon the pioneering photographic work of Eadweard J. Muybridge on human and animal locomotion. A secondary goal is to learn the gram...
MI801 TGR Master's Project No Description Set
MI802 TGR PhD Dissertation No Description Set