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Immunology ProgramIMMUNOL 201. Advanced Immunology I—(Same as MI 211.) For graduate and medical students and advanced undergraduates. Molecules and cells of the innate and adaptive immune systems; genetics, structure, and function of immune molecules; Lymphocyte differentiation and activation; Regulation of immune responses; auto immunity and other problems in immune system dysfunction. Prerequisites: undergraduate course in Immunology and familiarity with experimental approaches in biochemistry, molecular biology, and cell biology. IMMUNOL 202. Advanced Immunology II—(Same as MI 212.) Readings of immunological literature. Classic problems and emerging areas based on primary literature. Student and faculty presentations. Prerequisite: IMMUNOL 201. IMMUNOL 203. Advanced Immunology III—Key experiments and papers in immunology. Student presentations and faculty participation; faculty describe their experimental process and scientific papers. Prerequisite: IMMUNOL 201/MI 211 or IMMUNOL 202/MI 212. IMMUNOL 205. Immunology in Health and Disease—Concepts and application of adaptive and innate immunology and the role of the immune system in human diseases. Case presentations of diseases including autoimmune diseases, infectious disease, transplantation, genetic and acquired immuno deficiencies, hypersensitivity reactions, and allergic diseases. Problem sets based on lectures and current clinical literature. Laboratory inacute and chronic inflammation. IMMUNOL 215. Principles of Biological Technologies—(Same as MI215.) Required of first- year graduate students in Microbiology and Immunology, and the Immunology program. The principles underlying commonly utilized technical procedures in biological research. Lectures and primary literature critiques on gelelectrophoresis, Protein purification and stabilization, immuno fluorescence microscopy, FACS. Prerequisites: biochemistry, organic chemistry, and physics. IMMUNOL 230. Introduction to Medicine—For graduate students in biological sciences, bioengineering, and biomedical informatics. Information and approaches used by physicians to understand human disease. Focus is on diabetes; Attention to other diseases. Guest medical school and outside faculty. Field trip to anatomy lab, clinics, and the clinical laboratory. Quarter-long, team projects addressing current medical issues. IMMUNOL 230A. Independent Study in Medical Sciences—For doctoral students. Completion of team projects begun in 230. IMMUNOL 290. Teaching in Immunology—Practical experience in teaching by serving as a teaching assistant in an immunology course. Unit values are allotted individually to reflect the level of teaching responsibility assigned to the student. May be repeated for credit. IMMUNOL 299. Directed Reading in Immunology—Prerequisite: consent of instructor. IMMUNOL 305. Immunology Journal Club—Required of first- to fourth-year graduate students. Graduate students present and discuss recent papers in the literature. May be repeated for credit. IMMUNOL 311. Seminar in Immunology—Enrollment limited to Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D., and medical students whose scholarly concentrations are in Immunology. Current research topics. IMMUNOL 311A. Discussions in Immunology—Students discuss papers of speakers in 311, and meet with the speakers. Corequisite: 311. IMMUNOL 315. Special Topics in Immunology—Graduate student initiated seminar in journal club style. Previous topics include evolutionary immunology and the principles of vaccine development, cytokines, tumor immunology, and neuroimmunology. May be repeated for credit. IMMUNOL 399. Graduate Research—For Ph.D., M.D./Ph.D. students, and medical students whose scholarly concentrations are in Immunology.
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