An advanced course in immunology for graduate students enrolled in the Biotechnology master's program. The use of computer networks, data bases, and programs in molecular biology. Students choose a protein sequence from DNA sequence data. This sequence is entered, edited, and analyzed following simulated genetic engineering. An advanced laboratory for graduate students enrolled in the Biotechnology master's program.
Students learn to engineer recombinant eukuryotic viruses and express genes in mouse tissue.
Advanced topics in immunology as related to an understanding of human disease. May be repeated for credit as topics vary. Two half-hour presentations by graduate students and postdoctorals to the department on their current research projects. May be taken for credit 15 times. Physical and chemical properties of proteins, forces that maintain protein structure, relationship between structure and function, interactions of proteins with ligands and other macromolecules, and experimental methods to study structure, function, and interactions.