Browse frequently offered courses related to microbial sciences.
Strategies and Uses of Epidemiology --- This course offers an introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods of population-based epidemiologic research. It is intended to be the introductor
This laboratory course provides an opportunity for students to become familiar with approaches and techniques to studying microbial diversity.
Provides an overview and integration of six disciplinary foci which, together, define the field of cellular biotechnology.
Regions of focus for the study of the human microbiome.
Sterilization, Disinfection and Manipulation: The influence of microorganisms on human-health is significant and control strategies often rely on the use of physical (heat, UV, etc.) and chemical (
Introduce and develop the mathematical theory of networks, particularly social and technological networks; applications to important network-driven phenomena in epidemiology of human infections and
Intro to Adaptive Systems (aka “Introduction to Evolutionary Dynamical Systems”) centers on the construction and use of agent-based adaptive models study phenomena which are prototypical in the soc
This course is an introduction to applications and integration of dynamical systems and game theory to model population and ecological dynamics and evolutionary processes.
This course is a math-based introduction to the theory and analysis of complex systems. Methods covered will include nonlinear dynamics, both discrete and continuous, chaos theory, stochastic proc
This course introduces graduate students to essential scientific communication skills.
This course will examine how and why microorganisms (primarily bacteria and archaea) drive geochemical processes. Emphasis will be placed on the integration of cellular physiology/metabolism with
Genetics in Epidemiology: This course relates genomics to the core public health discipline of epidemiology emphasizing the use of genomics to help describe disease frequency and distribution and t
This course provides learning opportunities for graduate students to understand and develop competencies in a quantitative, research oriented, systems and approach to physiology. Systems examined
This course will focus on emerging "omics" approaches (genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics) to studying microorganisms and their interactions with various environments. It will cover both concep
This course describes methods used by clinical and public health microbiologists to detect clinically relevant microorganisms in patient specimens, and how this information is used in patient manag
This course is comprised of three sections: Bioinformatics on the Web, Introduction to Statistics, and Bioinformatics & Systems Biology.
This course introduces students to the fundamental theories and practices of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology via a series of integrated lectures and labs. These lectures and labs will foc
This course introduces fundamental concepts and methods for bioinformatics and the advanced applications.
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Molecular techniques used in bacteriology and molecular epidemiology.
This course will cover statistical methods used to analyze data in experimental molecular biology.
Advanced laboratory studies of viruses and virus diseases with emphasis upon the application of procedures to investigation. May be elected more than once.
Probabilistic models of proteins and nucleic acids. Analysis of DNA/RNA and protein sequence data.
Fundamental statistical concepts related to the practice of public health: descriptive statistics; probability; sampling; statistical distributions; estimation; hypothesis testing; chi-square tests
Computational neuroscience investigates the brain at many different levels, from single cell activity, to small local network computation, to the dynamics of large neuronal populations.
Individual laboratory studies of selected topics on bacteria of public health importance. May be elected more than once.