printer friendly pageBIOS 279: Applied Grant-Writing Skills for Science and Engineering Students
Participants develop proposals in the non-medical fields of science and engineering (e.g. for the National Science Foundation) focusing on required documents such as the 1-page Project Summary, Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, and Research Plan. Students establish a writing practice and learn fundamental grant writing skills through guided exercises, including in-class review and focused faculty feedback.
Last offered: Spring 2020
| Repeatable
for credit
BIOS 280: Apico-basolateral Epithelial Cell Polarity
Cells must polarize, localizing unique macromolecules along distinct axes, to function correctly. This lecture/lab mini-course will provide students with a broad overview of cell polarity, using recent literature to guide understanding of the shared and divergent mechanisms underlying polarity establishment in different tissues and organisms. Additionally, students will engage in hands-on research using C. elegans and a large particle flow cytometer (BIOSORTER) to perform high throughput forward genetic screens to discover novel pathways involved in epithelial polarity establishment. This course is geared toward STEM graduate students, postdocs, and advanced undergraduates interested in topics and applications in cell and developmental biology.
Last offered: Winter 2020
BIOS 282: Clarifying Career Choices: Your Self-Reflective Research Project
Using the ADAPT Integrated Development Model, this course will focus on the areas of Development and Awareness. It is designed for students who aspire to gain clarity and insights about themselves their career choices and options. It is designed to encourage self-knowledge and increased awareness of roles and job opportunities inside and outside of academia, where an in-depth Science background is desired. The course requires students to complete up to 3 assessments, short writing assignments, and participate in small group discussions. All students will have the opportunity to have a 1:1 follow-up session with the Instructor to discuss the insights gained from the course as well as opportunities to network with alumni and future employers from various fields.
Last offered: Winter 2021
BIOS 283: Dendritic Cells and Other Myeloid Cells: function and analytical tools
Dendritic cells and other myeloid cells are capable of activating and modulating a broad range of immune responses. This course focuses on understanding myeloid cell diversity, plasticity and functions in host physiology, disease states (i.e., cancer, inflammatory and infectious diseases) and during therapeutic interventions. Students are exposed to a combination of lectures (including field-expert talks) and dry lab workshops with the goal of acquiring tools for dissecting human and mouse myeloid cell function experimentally. This course is intended for biosciences graduate students and postdocs with basic immunology knowledge (enrollment limited to 20).
Last offered: Summer 2022
BIOS 285: Rodent Animal Models: Selection, Detection, Dissection, Inspection
This 2-week mini-course will discuss pragmatic approaches to rodent utilization with the aim of empowering graduate students across multiple disciplines to maximize rodent-derived data and minimize the redundant use of animals in biomedical research. Topics will include an introduction to clinical models, practical aspects of rodent blood collection and interpretation, algorithmic approaches to tissue collection for research applications, and an introduction to rodent histopathology, immunohistochemistry, and immunofluorescence. Course instructors include board-certified laboratory animal medicine clinicians and comparative pathologists that are expert h these topics. This course is open to graduate students with or without prior rodent experience.
Last offered: Spring 2022
BIOS 286: Single Cell Immunogenomics
Preference is for graduate students and undergraduates with background in biology and genetics. The emphasis of the course will be on learning the essential principles of single cell genomics as applied to research questions in immunology. The topics will include understanding the fundamental principles of the technology, experimental methods, types of single cell sequencing assays available and data analysis. The emphasis will be on how these methods are used to delineate immunologic cell types, their interactions with other cells in the local microenvironment and determining differential gene expression patterns and signatures. Specialized topics will include the analysis of single cell T-cell and B-cell receptor characteristics as well as joining antibody staining information at single cell resolution. Guest speakers will include thought leaders in the field who are demonstrating how single cell immunogenomics are being applied to immunotherapy development. Enrollment is limited.
Last offered: Spring 2022
BIOS 287: Proteostatis: guarding the proteome in health and disease
The control of cellular protein homeostasis, also called Proteostasis, is emerging as the central cellular process controlling the stability, function and quality control of the proteome and central to our understanding of a vast range of diseases. The proteostasis machinery maintains the function of destabilized and mutant proteins; assists the degradation of damaged and aggregated proteins and monitors the health of the proteome, adjusting it in response to environmental or metabolic stresses. This class will introduce students to the exciting cutting edge discoveries in this field, and will relate them to medical and biotechnology applications, as well as how a better understanding of proteostasis can be leveraged to understand fundamental biological processes, such as evolution and aging and to ameliorate a wide range of diseases. Given the increasingly close links between aging, protein misfolding, and neurodegenerative disease, understanding proteostasis networksis of critical fundamental and practical importance. These insights are particularly relevant in view of the increased prevalence of late-onset neurodegenerative aggregation diseases caused by an increasingly elderly population.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
BIOS 289: Preparation & Practice: Finance of Biotechnology
Tailored lectures and case studies lead to a practical final project. Leaders from local firms and companies will help you gain insight into the biotechnology industry, the skills and experiences necessary to succeed, and the various roles and responsibilities within the industry. Coursework is divided into 4 sections: Introductory Material: The first segment consists of two lectures and introduces the biotechnology company life cycle along with introductory concepts in finance. Venture Capital and Private Equity: The second segment consists of three lectures devoted to venture capital finance and private equity where students will learn the basic mechanics of raising capital. nPublic Finance: The third segment consists of the interpretation of financial statements, construction of company forecasts, and evaluating business value from such projections. Final Project: The final lecture will conclude with student presentations on their final projects.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Eberle, S. (PI)
BIOS 290: Preparation & Practice: Law
Through tailored lecture, case study and a practical final project, Biosciences and interdisciplinary sciences students and trainees will learn how to apply the skills they acquired in their academic training to a career in Patent Prosecution and related fields. Taught by field and faculty experts, this is your opportunity to network with IP law representatives and to gain hands-on experience in a new career of choice option. Topics include: applying for positions, the importance of IP protection, licensing, overview of the patent process, drafting applications and litigation.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1
BIOS 291: Preparation & Practice: Management Consulting
This course is designed for students who are interested in learning about consulting including tools and techniques to gain a consulting mindset. The course requires students to complete short assignments, participate in classroom discussions, and a team project. Students will have the opportunity to understand the consulting process right from sourcing and starting engagements to closure and follow up engagements. Further, with the help of some practical execution in the classroom, students will also learn how to manage client needs and situations, articulating client needs in a succinct proposal, planning and executing consulting assignments, managing client interactions and in the process, learn to leverage some common frameworks for consulting.
Last offered: Spring 2023
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