Courses
All courses carry 3 credits unless otherwise specified.
641 Advanced Cellular Biology
Structure and function of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Properties of membranes and cellular transport systems, energy transduction, assembly and morphogenesis of organelles, organization of nucleus and cytoskeleton. Experimental approaches emphasized. Credit, 4.
642 Advanced Molecular Biology
Structure, biosynthesis, and function of nucleic acids and the translational apparatus. DNA replication, gene organization, chromatin structure, RNA transcription, regulation of gene expression, and protein biosynthesis. Credit, 4.
696 Independent Study
Laboratory research under direction of faculty member. Credit, 1-6.
698 Master’s Project
Credit, 6.
699 Master’s Thesis
Credit, 1-10.
899 Doctoral Dissertation
Credit, 18.
Program-related Courses
ANIMLSCI 572 Infection & Immunity
ANIMLSCI 581 Cancer Biology
ANIMLSCI 697C Special Topics - Carcinogenesis
ANIMLSCI 697K ST: Advanced Immunology
ANTHRO 597EE ST-Primate ecology and evolution
BIOCHEM 523 General Biochemistry I
BIOCHEM/CHEM 657 Drug Design
BIOLOGY 510 Plant Physiology
BIOLOGY 514 Population Genetics
BIOLOGY 559 Cellular & Molecular Biology II
BIOLOGY 568 Endocrinology
BIOLOGY 572 Neurobiology
BIOLOGY 578 Microscopy and Image Processing Lab
BIOLOGY 580 Developmental Biology
BIOLOGY 582 DNA to Diversity
BIOLOGY 583 Advanced Genetics
BIOLOGY 597/697 MN ST-Modern Methods in Neurobiology and Their Application
BIOLOGY 597NE ST-The Neural Basis of Animal Behavior
BIOLOGY 697GA ST-Human Genome Analysis
BIOLOGY 697GE ST- Evolutionary Genetics
CHEM 471 Elementary Physical Chem
CHEM 546 Adv Inorganic Chem
CHEM 552 Spectroscopic Identification of Organic Compounds
CHEM 585 Adv Phys Chem
CHEM 627 Biomolecular Structure
CHEM 728 Physicl Biochemistry
CHEM 777 Chem Spectroscopy/ Biomolecular NMR
CHEM 791L Sem-Bioanalytical Chem
CHEM/MOLCLBIO 590CB Chemical Biology
CHEM-ENG 575 Tissue Engineering
CHEM-ENG 590G Immunoengineering
CHEM-ENG 592B Introduction to Biochemical Engineering
CHEM-ENG 690A Fundamentals of Intelligent Theses
EHS 588 Developmental Origins of Disease
EHS 666 Environmental and Occupational Toxicology I
FOOD-SCI 567 Food Microbiology
FOOD-SCI 581 Analysis Food Products
FOOD-SCI 797R ST- Research Methods
KIN 697N ST-Molecular Mechanism of Muscle Contraction
M&I ENG 597/697CM ST-Connections in Medicine, Biology, and Engineering
M&I ENG 597MB ST-Molecular, Cellular, and Tissue Biomechanics
MICROBIO 570 Animal Virology
MICROBIO 597N ST-Parasitology and Neglected Tropical Diseases
NEUROS&B 617 Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Neurobiology
NUTRITN 630 Advanced Nutrition and Metabolism
PHYSICS 551 Biological Physics
PHYSICS 553 Optics-with Lab
POLYMER 604 Intro Polymer Engin
POLYMER 608 Phys Chem Polymer I
POLYMER 789 Phys Chem Polymer II
POLYMER 797X ST-Adv Polymer Engin
POLYMER 897A ST-Polymer Dynamics
PSYCH 591S Stress Neurobiology
Special topics courses and graduate-level courses in various departments are taught by Molecular and Cellular Biology faculty and are accepted for credit. Graduate-level courses are accepted for credit if approved by the student’s dissertation adviser.