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BIOM 6263 Techniques in Molecular Biology Prerequisites: BIOM 5215, BIOM 5316, consent of instructor. Description: Transformation of bacterial and mammalian cells; purification of nucleic acids; cloning of DNA fragments; labeling of nucleic acids with non-radioactive probes; analysis of DNA and RNA by electrophoresis and hybridization; DNA sequencing; design, synthesis and use of oligonucleotides; site-directed mutagenesis; detection of rare nucleic acids by the polymerase chain reaction and expression of proteins. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 1 Lab: 4 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Biomedical Sciences BIOM 6333 Immunology Prerequisites: BIOM 5215, BIOM 5316. Description: The experimental basis of immunology and immunopathology. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Biomedical Sciences BIOM 6343 Microbial Physiology Prerequisites: BIOM 5215, BIOM 5316. Description: The chemical composition, growth and metabolism of prokaryotic organisms including regulation and control of metabolic pathways with emphasis on metabolism unique to microbes. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 2 Lab: 2 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Biomedical Sciences BIOM 6353 Molecular Virology Prerequisites: BIOM 5215, BIOM 5316, consent of instructor. Description: The fundamental molecular biology of the virus life cycle using one virus as a model to examine penetration, gene regulation, replication, assembly and egress, as well as host immunological response and epidemiology. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 2 Lab: 2 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lab, Lecture, Combined lecture and lab Department/School: Biomedical Sciences BIOM 6363 Immunobiology of Infectious Disease Prerequisites: Biochemistry, Medical Microbiology and Immunology. Description: Graduate course to provide an understanding of cellular and molecular events that occur during the initiation of immune response to main causes of human pathogens. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Biomedical Sciences

BIOM 6413 Graduate General Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Prerequisites: Graduate standing and BIOM 5215; permission of the instructor is required; BIOM 5616 and BIOM 5316 are recommended. Description: An introduction for biomedical researchers to disease processes, from etiologies to cell and tissue responses that manifest as diseases. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Biomedical Sciences BIOM 6523 Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology Prerequisites: BIOM 5513, BIOM 5523. Description: Physiologic and pharmacologic mechanisms of cardiac and vascular smooth muscle function and control at the molecular, cellular, tissue and organ system levels. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Biomedical Sciences BIOM 6543 Environmental Toxins in the Brain

Description: Introduces the fundamental aspects of neurotoxicology using both cellular and molecular approaches in neurochemistry and toxicology. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Biomedical Sciences

BIOM 6583 Neuroinflammation Prerequisites: Graduate standing.

Description: Provides an understanding of inflammation in the central nervous system through discussion of current and experimental pharmacologic strategies designed to modulate neuroinflammation. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture

Department/School: Biomedical Sciences BIOM 6613 Environmental Physiology Prerequisites: BIOM 5616.

Description: Environmental parameters, including barometric pressure, temperature, light, gravity, noise, and crowding, having an impact on homeostatic mechanisms in the normal human with special emphasis on acute and chronic adaptations in response to changes in environmental parameters. Credit hours: 3 Contact hours: Lecture: 3 Levels: Graduate Schedule types: Lecture Department/School: Biomedical Sciences