Courses

Last updated Spring 2022

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.