Explores a variety of ethical and political issues that arise during the conduct of basic and clinical scientific research. Course sessions include lectures, discussion periods, and analyses of case studies.
This seminar is designed for senior graduate students to learn about various career options. The speakers are generally graduates from our programs or comparable programs, who will discuss how they ended up in their present positions. The seminar is designed to give the students plenty of opportunities to interact with the speakers and ask questions or ask for advice on how to pursue these career options.
This course will provide an in-depth discussion of state-of-the-art methodological concepts and approaches for analysis of molecular data, with a focus on sequencing data. The course will touch upon a variety of topics related to computational genomics and biology, including mathematical modeling of infectious diseases, cancer genomics, and protein molecular modeling. The course will comprise of frontal and guest lectures, as well as presentation of research papers by students.
For all first year Ph.D. students. Provides a unified curriculum that covers many of the topics that students need to know to successfully carry out research in biological sciences. Topics include basic biochemical principles, processes common to all eukaryotic cells such as transcription, translation and the cell cycle, and mechanism of cell-cell signaling.
Open only to students in the Integrated Program.