Course Descriptions

All required and a sampling of elective courses for the MS in Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics are described below.

Genetics, Genomics and Bioinformatics

  • GGB 501 GGB Research Rotations, 1-3 credits
  • GGB 502 Essentials of Genetics and Genomics, 3 credits
  • GGB 505 Human and Medical Genetics, 3 credits
  • GGB 607 Presentation Seminar, 1 credit
  • GGB 611 Advanced Microbial Genetics, 2 credits
  • GGB 701 Research, 1-12 credits

Biochemistry

  • BCH 503 Biochemical Principles, 4 credits
  • BCH 507 Protein Structure and Function, 2-3 credits
  • BCH 508 Gene Expression, 2 credits
  • BCH 512 Developmental Genomics and Stem Cell Biology, 3 credits
  • BCH 519 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 3 credits
  • BCH 607 DNA Replication and Repair, 2 credits

Biological Sciences

  • BIO 426/526 Human Genetic Diseases, 3 credits
  • BIO 450/550 Human Evolutionary Genomics, 3 credits

Biomedical Sciences

  • BMS 501 Cell Biology I, 4 credits
  • BMS 511 Fundamentals in Biomedical Sciences - Critiquing Scientific Literature, 1 credit

Epidemiology and Environmental Health

  • EEH 674 Fundamentals of Genetic Epidemiology, 3 credits

Microbiology

  • MIC/BCH 506 Composition and Function of the Human Microbiome, 2 credits
  • MIC 512 Fundamentals of Immunology, 2 credits
  • MIC 607 DNA Replication and Repair, 2 credits

Neuroscience

  • NRS 524 Quantitative Neuroanatomy, 4 credits

Pharmaceutical Sciences

  • PHC 509 Pharmacogenetics in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2 credits

Pharmacology and Toxicology

  • PMY 527 Modern Approaches to Drug Discovery, 2 credits
  • PMY 627 Target Organ Toxicity, 2 credits

Physiology

  • PGY 505 Cell and Membrane Physiology, 4 credits
  • PGY 607 Cellular and Molecular Basis of Disease, 3 credits

Structural Biology

  • STB 530 Mathematics and Physics Topics for Structural Biologists, 2 credits