Course Descriptions

Browse frequently offered courses related to microbial sciences.

 
BIOINF
563
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Bioinformatics

This course focuses on discovering the way in which spatial variation influences the motion, dispersion, and persistence of species.

BIOINF
575
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Computer Programming

This course will introduce current software tools and information resources in bioinformatics.  Topics will include rapid development programming languages (Python, Perl), relational databases (SQL

EHS
576
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter*
Discipline:
Epidemiology

GGraduate level course on basic knowledge about microbes in the environment and its impact on public health.

EPID
582
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Epidemiology
Molecular Epidemiology --- The rapid development in molecular techniques since the early 1980's has enhanced the ability of epidemiologist to define and measu
CEE
582
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Engineering

Introductions to microbial metabolic processes and nutrition, thermodynamics of growth and energy generation, genetic and metabolic diversity, evolution and systematics, laboratory methods, and mic

EECS
587
Level: 500+ | Credits: 4 | Term(s): Winter*
Discipline:
Computer Programming

The course covers a wide range of aspects of parallel computing, with the emphasis on developing efficient software for commonly available systems, such as the clusters here on campus.

CEE
592
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter*
Discipline:
Engineering

Theoretical principles, qualitative and quantitative description of suspended growth and bio-film processes, as applicable to wastewater treatment and bioremediation of soils, sediments, and ground

MICRBIOL
599
Level: 500+ | Credits: 1-8 | Term(s): Fall, Winter
Discipline:
Research

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EPID
600
Level: 500+ | Credits: 4 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Epidemiology

This course provides students with the foundations of epidemiologic theory and practice.

BIOSTAT
601
Level: 500+ | Credits: 4 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Math and Statistics

Analysis of Multivariate and Categorical data

EPID
601
Level: 500+ | Credits: 4 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Epidemiology

Epid 601 is a comprehensive course in the basic concepts, principles, and methods of population-based epidemiologic research, which serves as a foundation for subsequent courses in epidemiology, bi

EPID
602
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Epidemiology

Infectious disease transmission modeling provides a theoretical framework for the field of infectious disease epidemiology, and therefore provides the basis for thinking about study design, data an

EPID
603
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall, Winter
Discipline:
Epidemiology
  • Description: This course serves as a basic introduction to math modeling in epidemiology, with examples drawn broadly from infectious disease, chronic disease, an
MICRBIOL
607
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Medicine

This first module will emphasize functional and ecological aspects of microbial pathogenicity.

EHS
608
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Epidemiology
Environmental Epidemiology --- This course will serve as an introduction to topics in environmental epidemiology, covering major areas of current inquiry in t
MICRBIOL
612
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Bioinformatics

Increasingly, microbiologists are generating large and varied datasets and must be integrated with data from traditional approaches to test hypotheses and identify new avenues of research.

MICRBIOL
612
Level: 500+ | Credits: 1 | Term(s): Winter*
Discipline:
Bioinformatics
The following single credit data analysis classes being offered are open for registration to students and staff. Classes run between 9am – 4pm in the days offered.
MICRBIOL
612
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Math and Statistics
Feel like you have too much data? Not sure what statistical analyses to use to process your data? Always wanted to learn to write data analysis programs?
MICRBIOL
615
Level: 500+ | Credits: 2 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Medicine

Concepts of viral pathogenesis and controls. Early events-entry, receptors, tropism determinants. Replication and interactions with host defenses.

MICRBIOL
619
Level: 500+ | Credits: 1 | Term(s): Fall, Winter
Discipline:
Medicine

Didactic overview and critical analysis of the literature focused on a specific timely topic in current microbiology and immunology research.  Students will read and discuss the primary literature

PHYSICS
630
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Modeling

An introduction to biological physics at the cellular and supra-cellular scales, with an emphasis on understanding how robust biological function emerges from the interactions of systems of molecul

MICRBIOL
632
Level: 500+ | Credits: 1 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Microbiology

Two faculty members per session describe their application of genetics principles to analysis of specific biological questions.

EPID
637
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Epidemiology

This advanced course provides in-depth coverage of applications of mathematical modeling to behavior, social processes, and chronic disease.

MICRBIOL
640
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Medicine

This course is focused upon molecular and cellular aspects of vertebrate immunology.

MICRBIOL
641
Level: 500+ | Credits: 1 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Medicine

This course will consist of lectures and discussions pertaining to receptor-ligand interactions in the immune system.

EHS
660
Level: 500+ | Credits: 2 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Epidemiology
Environmental Epigenetics and Public Health --- This course examines the principles and applications of genomics and epigenomics as they relate to human nutri
BIOSTAT
665
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Winter
Discipline:
Epidemiology

The first half of the course concentrates on classical population genetics.

BIOSTAT
666
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Epidemiology

Introduction to current statistical methods used in human genetics.

BIOINF
668
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Bioinformatics

This course introduces students to the concepts and practices of health informatics.

EHS
673
Level: 500+ | Credits: 3 | Term(s): Fall
Discipline:
Epidemiology

This course will survey both classic and emerging literature describing the DOHaD paradigm from an epidemiological perspective.

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