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This course focuses on discovering the way in which spatial variation influences the motion, dispersion, and persistence of species.
This course will introduce current software tools and information resources in bioinformatics. Topics will include rapid development programming languages (Python, Perl), relational databases (SQL
GGraduate level course on basic knowledge about microbes in the environment and its impact on public health.
Introductions to microbial metabolic processes and nutrition, thermodynamics of growth and energy generation, genetic and metabolic diversity, evolution and systematics, laboratory methods, and mic
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.
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
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This course provides students with the foundations of epidemiologic theory and practice.
Analysis of Multivariate and Categorical data
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
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
- Description: This course serves as a basic introduction to math modeling in epidemiology, with examples drawn broadly from infectious disease, chronic disease, an
This first module will emphasize functional and ecological aspects of microbial pathogenicity.
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.
Concepts of viral pathogenesis and controls. Early events-entry, receptors, tropism determinants. Replication and interactions with host defenses.
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
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
Two faculty members per session describe their application of genetics principles to analysis of specific biological questions.
This advanced course provides in-depth coverage of applications of mathematical modeling to behavior, social processes, and chronic disease.
This course is focused upon molecular and cellular aspects of vertebrate immunology.
This course will consist of lectures and discussions pertaining to receptor-ligand interactions in the immune system.
The first half of the course concentrates on classical population genetics.
Introduction to current statistical methods used in human genetics.
This course introduces students to the concepts and practices of health informatics.
This course will survey both classic and emerging literature describing the DOHaD paradigm from an epidemiological perspective.