Course Description
Introduction to basic principles and concepts of virology, viral replication and pathogenesis for undergraduate and graduate students. Class topics will include classification, replication, diagnosis, quantification, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of viruses.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students will be required to present the findings of a
research paper or review paper as a 15-30 minute oral
presentation in the course. The topics will be approved by the
instructor prior to the presentation. Graduate students will
have extra weekly work sheets containing questions that they
have to answer based on reading current research articles. They
will also receive additional exam questions in order to augment
their integration of the course information.
Athena Title
Introduction to Virology
Undergraduate Pre or Corequisite
(BCMB 3100 or BCMB 3100E) and GENE 3200-3200D and (MIBO 3500 or MIBO 3500E)
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The objective of this course is to familiarize undergraduate and graduate students with classification, replication, diagnosis, quantification, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of viruses.
Topical Outline
Taxonomy Genome structure Replication Diagnosis and quantification Pathogenesis Epidemiology/population biology of viral infections Biology of specific single stranded and double stranded RNA and/or DNA viruses
Syllabus