approved elective courses

Biochemistry  708 - Protein and Enzyme Laboratory
Purification, characterization, and study of the physical and catalytic properties of enzymes and proteins.

Biochemistry 735 - Plant Biochemistry I
The biochemistry of plant chloroplasts and mitochondria: photosynthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, sulfate and nitrate reduction, chlorophyll and heme synthesis, chloroplast development, respiration, and mitochondrial development.

Biochemistry  736 - Plant Biochemistry II
The biochemistry of plants with emphasis on the synthesis and structure of cell walls, lipids, secondary compounds, phytohormones, and nitrogen fixation.

Biochemistry  765 - Advanced Biochemistry: Physical Biochemistry
Nuclear magnetic resonance, optical spectroscopy, and mass spectroscopy.

Biochemistry 770 - Protein Engineering
Current research on genetic engineering of proteins for biotechnological and theoretical studies.

Biochemistry  775 - Biophysical Chemistry
Techniques and principles of physical biochemistry, emphasizing chromatography, electrophoresis, centrifugation, ultrafiltration, and circular dichroism.

Biomedical Informatics 730
Introduces students to basic topics of bioinformatics including sequence analyses, proteomics, microarrays, regulatory networks, sequence and protein databases, etc.

Chemistry 730 - Intermediate Organic Chemistry 
Intermediate-level course for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students in organic reactions and mechanisms.

Chemistry 731 - Advanced Organic Chemistry I
Fundamental aspects of physical organic chemistry.

Chemistry  733 - Chemistry of Bio-Organic Catalysts and Enzymes
Mechanisms of organic catalysts and enzymes; for students majoring in organic chemistry and biochemistry.

Chemistry  832 - Advanced Organic Chemistry II
An advanced course in the fundamental principles of chemistry covering alicyclic, hydroaromatic, and aromatic compounds.

CHEM  833 - Advanced Organic Chemistry III
An advanced course in the fundamental principles of chemistry covering a survey of heterocyclic compounds, carbohydrates, proteins, and enzymes.

Chemistry 752 - Inorganic Biochemistry
Roles of metal ions as biological redox and catalytic cofactors; coordination chemistry; spectroscopy and electrochemistry.

Chemistry 990 - Seminar on Topics in Biochemistry
Advanced topics in the biological aspects of chemistry.

Food Science and Technology 761 - Carbohydrate and Lipid Metabolism
In-depth treatment of digestion, absorption, transport, and utilization of dietary carbohydrates and fat for energy production and fat deposition in humans and other higher animals.

Food Science and Technology  821 - Food Lipids
Chemical, physical, and biological properties of food lipids.

Food Science and Technology 830 - Advanced Studies in Nutrition
Advanced concepts in nutrition.
830.01 – Energy/Lipids

IBGP  781 - Animal Models of Human Disease
Transgenic and knockout mouse technology and examples of models for genetic diseases with each pattern of inheritance.

Microbiology 701 - Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of immune response, cell recognition and communication, molecular biology of cell recognition structures, cytokines, and effector mechanisms.

Microbiology  736 - Advanced Food Microbiology
Microbiological aspects of food preservation, detection of microbiological contaminants, hazards, and microorganisms of public health significance.

Microbiology  750 - Fermentation Biotechnology
Fundamentals of modern fermentation technology and industrial microbiology; with emphasis on product formation, culturing techniques and computer-controlled fermentation.

Microbiology  760 - Advanced Bacterial Physiology
Specialized metabolic pathways, regulation and control mechanisms, and bacterial biochemistry.

Microbiology  832 - Advanced Cellular Immunology
Student presentations of primary literature with emphasis on genetic, biochemical, and cellular aspects of signal transduction by receptors of hematopoietic cells.

Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry  823 - Control of Cell Growth and Proliferation
Role of cell surface receptors, cytoplasmic signaling molecules, transcription factors and chromatin remodeling complexes in the regulation of cell growth and in mechanisms causing cancer.

Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry  824 – Enzymology
Selected topics in structure/function relationships, mechanisms of catalysis, kinetics, and metabolic interrelations of enzyme systems.

Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry  828 - Signaling Pathways and Human Disease
Current concepts of biological signaling pathways and the biochemical defects in these pathways that lead to cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and neurodegenerative diseases in humans.

Molecular & Cellular Biochemistry  831 - Eukaryotic Genome: Structure and Expression
Current research on the structure and expression of genes in higher eukaryotes.

Molecular Genetics 700 - Systems of Genetic Analysis
Analysis of several major systems used in modern experimental genetics.

Molecular Genetics  705 - Advances in Cell Biology
An advanced study of selected key areas of research in eukaryotic cell biology.

Molecular Genetics  715 - Developmental Genetics
A study of the regulation of developmentally significant genes and cellular interactions involved in differentiation and pattern formation in Drosophila and metazoans.

Molecular Genetics  831 - Eukaryotic Genome: Structure and Expression
Current research on the structure and expression of genes in higher eukaryotes.

Molecular Genetics  733 - Human Genetics
The principles of human genetics covering mapping of disease genes, defects causing human disease, the cloning of disease genes, gene therapy and transgenes.

Molecular Genetics  770 - Molecular Biology of Animal and Plant Viruses
An advanced virology course using selected animal and plant.

Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics 701 - Cellular and Molecular Immunology
Cellular and molecular mechanisms of immune response, cell recognition and communication, molecular biology of cell recognition structures, cytokines, and effector mechanisms

Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics 827 - Biochemical Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis
Defines the multi-stage model of cancer, signal transduction pathways used by tumor cells, genetics of cancer susceptibility and gene mutations in tumors..

Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics   831 - Eukaryotic Genome: Structure and Expression
Current research on the structure and expression of genes in higher eukaryotes.

Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics  833 - Current Immunological Techniques
Current techniques in cellular and humoral immunology as applicable in research conducted by students.

Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics 841 - Viral Pathogenesis and Oncogenesis
Cellular, immunological and molecular mechanisms involved with virus pathogenesis in animals/humans.

Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics  847 - Cellular Mechanisms and Pathogenesis of Inflammation
Inflammatory processes in the human host due to interaction with viruses, bacteria, parasites, foreign antigens, or physical trauma and new immunological therapeutic strategies being developed.

Neuroscience 723 - Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
Introduction to cellular components of nervous system, cell and molecular biology of nervous tissue, membrane properties and function in neural cells, brief overview of nervous system development.

NEUROSC  800 - Molecular Neurobiology
Survey of recent advances in the understanding of the structure and function of molecules known to be of key importance in the nervous system

Plant Biology  741 - Reproductive Biology of Flowering Plants
An advanced course on reproductive processes in flowering plants with emphasis on recent biochemical, molecular, and genetic approaches.

Plant Biology  833 - Advanced Plant Physiology: Growth
The physiology of growth; special attention given to the interrelated effects of plant hormones and environmental factors on the growth process in plants.

Plant Biology  835 - Advanced Plant Physiology: Plant Reproduction and Development
Physiology of flowering, fruit and seed development, vegetative reproduction, dormancy, apical dominance, abscission, and senescence.

Plant Biology  890 - Interdepartmental Seminar in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Students will present oral reports and lead discussion on research progress in specific areas of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology.

Pharmacy 710 - Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Products of biotechnology used as drugs, with an emphasis on immunoactive biomacromolecules employed in prevention, diagnosis and therapy of infectious, allergic, immunodeficiency and other diseases.

Pharmacy  721 - Drug Information and Drug Literature Review
Introduction to the broad range of medical and pharmaceutical literature; approaches to understanding and evaluating medical and pharmaceutical literature; demonstrates link between pharmaceutical care and drug information

Pharmacy 747 – Pharmacology I
The first in a six-course sequence providing a comprehensive study of the therapeutic effects, pharmacodynamics, mechanistic actions, and toxicological effects of important drug classes.