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Core courses for the Pathobiology Graduate Program
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VSC 520 - Pathobiology
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Jeanne Lumadue |
3
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Description: This course is intended to introduce the scientific process as it is applied to the broad range of infectious disease. Topics include bacterial, viral and parasitic disease, focusing on the scientific approaches and the modern molecular tools, with specific topics of interest selected and presented by students. A parallel goal is to establish positive, yet scientifically rigorous, interactions between students to encourage them to learn from each other throughout their graduate training.
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VSC 590 – Colloquium
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Robert Paulson |
1
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Description: Colloquium is a mandatory course for Pathobiology graduate students, to be taken each Fall and Spring. This seminar series consists of a combination of formal student presentations by second, third and fourth year students, and seminars by outside speakers who have made significant contributions to the fields of Immunology, toxicology, carcinogenesis, infectious disease and hematopoiesis (see Bortree seminar series).
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VSC/MICR/BMB 410 - Principles of Immunology
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Avery August, Andrea Mastro
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3
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Description: This course is designed to serve as a survey of Immunology and Immunological principles. It follows the broad outline of the assigned text and covers the theories of immunity, with a focus on the basis for the acquired immune response at the organ, cell, and molecular levels.
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VSC/MCR/BMB 432 – Advances in Immunology: Signaling in the Immune System
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Pamela Correll
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3
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Description: The objective of this course is to provide students at the upper undergraduate level, as well as graduate students, with a complete understanding of the basic concepts of signaling. In this course, we use the immune system as a model in which to study how cells communicate in order to coordinate an immune response. We focus on signaling mechanisms that regulate such immune responses as T cell activation, Th1/Th2 differentiation, macrophage activation and migration of immune cells to sites of inflammation.
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VSC/MICR/BMB 435 – Medical Virology
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Biao He |
2
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Description: A study of the molecular, immunological and pathological aspects of viral diseases as well as laboratory methods of diagnosis.
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VSC/BMMB/IBIOS 511 – Molecular Immunology
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Andrew Henderson
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2
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Description: Graduate level course focusing on the relationship between viruses and the immune system. The course is ½ lecture and ½ student presentation. Students are expected to present papers and critically discuss work from the primary literature supplementing lectures by the instructor.
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VSC/BMMB/IBIOS 515 – Macrophage Biology: Innate Immunity
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Pamela Correll
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2
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Description: This course is designed to be a literature driven, in-depth study of Macrophage Biology. The general areas to be covered are macrophage development, macrophage/pathogen interactions, macrophage activation/deactivation and macrophage/T-cell interactions as they relate to linking innate responses to acquired immunity.
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VSC/BMMB/IBIOS 516 – Viral Evasion of the Immune Response
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Andrew Henderson
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2
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Description: Graduate level course focusing on the relationship between viruses and the immune system. The course is ½ lecture and ½ student presentation. Students are expected to present papers and critically discuss work from the primary literature supplementing lectures by the instructor.
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VSC/BMMB/IBIOS 518 – T Cell Recognition and Development
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Avery August
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2
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Description: This course is designed to be a literature driven, in-depth study of T cell
Biology. The general areas to be covered include T cell recognition of
peptide/MHC, T cell activation mechanisms and how these processes result in
T cell selection in the thymus, and the function of T cells in the periphery
during an adaptive immune response.
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VSC/BMMB/IBIOS 519 – Development of the Hematopoietic/Vascular System
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Robert Paulson
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2
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Description: An in-depth analysis of current research in the development of the hematopoietic and vascular system during embryogenesis and fetal development.
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VSC 597A – Readings in Immunology
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Andrew Henderson
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1
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Description: Graduate level course in which students present and discuss papers from the recent literature.
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