Coursework

Required CoursesaCoursework

Required Courses (2)

  • MMI 200D (Mechanisms for Microbial Interactions with Hosts)

          And choose at least one of the following two courses:

  • IMM 201 (Basic Immunology)
  • PLP 210 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plant-Microbe Interaction)

Elective Courses (3)

(A total of three elective courses are required, and must include at least one course from both categories A and B below. Similar courses may satisfy the elective requirement with prior permission of the Executive Committee).

A.  Host Response to Microbes

  • IMM 204 (Topics in Innate Immunity)
  • IMM 293 (Advanced Concepts in Immunology)
  • IMM 297 (Mucosal Immunology)
  • PMI 202 (Integrated Pathobiology Core 2)
  • PLP 201A (Impacts, Mechanisms and Control of Plant Disease)

B.  Microbiology

  • MIB 200A (Microbial Phylogeny, Structure, and Metabolic Diversity)
  • MIC 262 (Advanced General & Molecular Virology)
  • MMI 215 (Medical Parasitology)
  • MMI 280 (Molecular Pathology)
  • EVE 298 (Microbial Phylogenomics)
  • PLP 224 (Advanced Mycology)
  • PLP 228 (Plant Bacteriology) 
  • PLP 230 (Plant Virology)

Seminars (2)

(A total of two is required. Similar courses may satisfy the elective requirement with prior permission of the Executive Committee).

  • MIC 292 (Bacterial Effector Proteins)
  • MMI 298 (Current Topics in Host-Microbe Interactions)
  • MMI 291 (Seminar Series, Emerging Challenges in Microbiology and Immunology)
  • CDB 298 (Eukaryotic Cell Signaling Systems)
  • PMI 290 Center for Immunology & Infectious Disease Weekly Seminar Series
  • PLP 290 Plant Pathology Seminar Series
  • PLP 291 Seminar in Molecular Plant Pathology