| The following are examples of some of the graduate courses available to PIBBS students at USC.
The course syllabi for some of the courses at the Keck School of Medicine have been compiled by Dr. Judy A. Garner
and are listed here.
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| | Title | Advanced Neurosciences I |
| Description | Molecular, cellular systems, cognitive, and computational approaches to the study of neurobiology. |
| Faculty | Baudry, Bottjer, Byerly, Liman, Mel, Selleck |
| Course # | BISC 524 (4 units, Fall) |
| | Title | Animal Virology |
| Description | Virus structure and chemistry; virus-cell interactions; virus genetics and molecular biology; pathogenesis, immunology, and evolution of viral infections |
| Faculty | Ou, Lai, Kohn, Tahara, Comai |
| Course # | MICB 542 (2 units, Spring, alternate years) |
| | Title | Biochemical and Molecular Basis of Disease |
| Description | Molecular mechanisms of genetic and metabolic diseases |
| Faculty | Roy-Burman, Goodman, Reichardt, McDonough, Stallcup, Haworth, Reddy, Comai, Dennert, Lai, DeClerck, Chuong, Epstein, Kohn |
| Course # | INTD 555 (4 units, Spring, alternate years) |
| | Title | Biochemistry |
| Description | Physical-chemical basis of life processes: protein structure and enzyme function; synthesis and metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, amino acids, and nucleotides. |
| Faculty | Danenberg, DeClerck, Kalra, Markland, Stellwagen, Comai |
| Course # | INTD 571 (4 units, Fall) |
| | Title | Cell Biology |
| Description | Membranes structure and function; growth, metabolism, and signal transduction; cytoskeleton structure and regulation; intracellular trafficking; influences of extracellular matrix and cell environment |
| Faculty | Mircheff, Farley, Fulle, Schonthal, Schauwecker, Hamm-Alvarez, Garner, Okamoto, Chuong, DeClerck, Wu, Chow, Tuan, Sung |
| Website | http://www-hsc.usc.edu/~jgarner/cellbio/INTD531.html |
| Course # | INTD 531 (4 units, Fall) |
| | Title | Cellular and Molecular Basis of Animal Development |
| Description | Processes of cell type specification, determination, and morphogenesis in metazoans from vertebrates to insects. Genetic, paragenetic, and molecular biological approaches to developmental processes. |
| Faculty | Maxson, Chuong, Snead, Chai, Shuler, Sucov |
| Course # | BIOC 542 (4 units, Fall, alternate years) |
| | Title | Computational Genome Analysis |
| Description | An introduction to the computational side of molecular biology, emphasizing genome analysis. Basics of computational and statistical thinking within the context of biology. Organisms and their genomes; DNA computers; algorithms and methods for constructing restriction maps and physcial maps; comparison of DNA sequences; strategies and methods for large scale genome sequencing and sequence assembly; hybridization to DNA micro-arrays and analysis of data; tree-building analysis of DNA sequence as a tool for evolutionary biology; finding genes and signals in DNA; introduction to proteomics. |
| Faculty | Deonier, Tavaré, Waterman |
| Course # | BISC 478 (4 units) |
| | Title | Computational Molecular Biology Lab |
| Description | Practical experience in computational molecular biology applications; statistical packages relevant to genomic analysis; retrieval and analysis of genomic data from databases. |
| Faculty | Tavaré |
| Course # | MATH 577a (2 units) |
| | Title | Epidemiology and Demographic Methods |
| Description | Terminology and uses of epidemiology and demography; sources and uses of population data; types of epidemiological studies; risk assessment; common sources of bias in population studies; principles of screening |
| Faculty | Azen |
| Course # | PM 512 (4 units, Spring) |
| | Title | Eukaryotic Molecular Genetics |
| Description | DNA and RNA structure and function; biochemistry and molecular biology of replication, transcription, RNA processing, translation; regulation of gene expression. |
| Faculty | Stellwagen, Haworth, Reddy, Lieber, Maxson, Laird, Johnson, Stallcup, Schonthal, Zandi, Laird-Offringa, Duncan |
| Course # | INTD 561 (4 units, Spring) |
| | Title | Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology |
| Description | Genetic principles; design and analysis of family trait and biomarker inheritance studies; relevant laboratory methods; estimation of likelihood; segregation and linkage analysis; biomarkers of exposure, susceptibility, and disease; susceptibility genes; association and linkage disequilibrium |
| Faculty | Ingles |
| Course # | PM 533 (3 units) |
| | Title | Human Molecular Genetics |
| Description | Basic principles of human genetics, genetic disease, human genome project, and gene therapy. |
| Faculty | Reddy, Reichardt, Hacia, Hsieh, Coetzee, Lieber |
| Course # | BIOC 543 (4 units, Fall, alternate years) |
| | Title | Molecular Biology of Cancer |
| Description | Tumor pathology, mechanisms of mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, chromosomal abnormalities, cell cycle and signaling, retroviruses, metastasis, angiogenesis, hormonal influences, cancer characteristics in a variety of specific organs, gene therapy, immunotherapy, animal models. |
| Faculty | Coetzee, Dubeau, Ursin, Lieber, Goodman, Landolph, Pike, Lee, Maxson, Jones, Anderson, Weber, Press, Ross, Laird, Laird-Offringa, Weinberg, Shibata, Hsieh, Zandi |
| Course # | INTD 504 (4 units, Spring, alternate years) |
| | Title | Pharmacogenomics |
| Description | Use of micro-array analysis, bioinformatics, and proteomics in pharmacology |
| Faculty | Neamati |
| Course # | PSCI 599 (2 units, Fall, alternate years) |
| | Title | Principles of Biostatistics |
| Description | Nature, scope, and terminology of biostatistics; appropriate uses and common misuses of health statistics; application of selected statistical procedures; introduction to statistical software packages |
| Faculty | Azen |
| Course # | PM 510L (4 units, Fall or Spring) |
| | Title | Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Molecular Biology |
| Description | Current molecular, genetic, and biophysical methods for studying replication, recombination, mutagenesis, and repair. Fundamentals of transcription and regulation of gene expression. Recent applications of genetic engineering and genome analysis. |
| Faculty | Arnheim, Petruska, Suskind, Aparicio, Finkel, Tower, Goodman |
| Course # | BISC 502a & b (a: 4 units, Fall; b: 4 units, Spring) |
| | Title | Signal Transduction in Pharmacology and Toxicology |
| Description | Receptor theory and classification; basic pharmacology; second messengers; kinases and phosphatases; steroid and nuclear receptors; oxidative stress; cell cycle and apoptosis. |
| Faculty | Sevanian, Brinton, Fulle, Torres, Schonthal, Duncan, Stallcup |
| Course # | MPTX 500 (4 units, Fall) |
| | Title | Statistical Methods in Human Genetics |
| Description | Introduction to statistical methods used in analysis of human genetic data. Basic population genetics, linkage analysis, and association analysis. Methods and strategy of positional cloning of genes predisposing for complex diseases. Students will be introduced to basic theory, methods, and concepts and will gain practical experience through analysis of real data. The course will draw heavily on topical literature covering statistical methods and positional cloning. |
| Faculty | Watanabe |
| Course # | PM 535 (4 units, Spring) |
| | Title | Statistics and Probability |
| Description | Probability spaces, discrete and continuous distributions, functions, sequences of random variables, special probability; principles for testing hypotheses and estimation, small sample distributions, correlation and regression, nonparametric methods, statistical decision theory |
| Faculty | Tavaré |
| Course # | MATH 407 & 408 (407: 3 units, Fall; 408: 3 units, Spring) |
| | Title | Systems Physiology and Disease |
| Description | Principles of feedback and homeostasis; emphasis on the cellular and integrative functions of the endocrine, nervous, sensory, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, kidney, and reproductive systems. |
| Faculty | McDonough, Farley, Meiselman, Keens, Mircheff, Peti-Peterdi, Snow, Yu, Wang, Schroeder, Hofman, Lubman, Brown, JC Wood, Nadim, Madkour |
| Course # | INTD 562 (4 units, Fall) |
| Last updated: Tue May 13 00:22:12 2008 |
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