A multi-disciplinary approach to examining the impact of infectious diseases on human populations. Current persistent, epidemic, and emerging diseases and how they are identified, studied, and combatted will be discussed. Topics will also include the sociological, psychological, historical, legal, environmental, and economic implications of disease.

A multi-disciplinary approach to examining the impact of infectious diseases on human populations. Current persistent, epidemic and emerging diseases and how they are identified, studied and combatted will be discussed. Topics will also include the sociological, psychological, historical, legal, environmental, and economic implications of disease.

To provide basic information to undergraduate students about zoonotic, economically important or politically important diseases of livestock (particularly mammalian food animals and horses).

Delivers an in-depth comprehension of specially selected areas of vector ecology and emerging vector-borne diseases. Emphasis will be placed on arthropod vectors such as mosquitoes and pathogens of medical and veterinary importance.

This course will equip students with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental principles regarding the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. Students will explore essential concepts related to vaccines and various treatment modalities, including antibiotics, antifungals, antiparasitic, and antivirals. Students will acquire the necessary knowledge to approach infectious diseases with informed and effective strategies.

Current research by Infectious Disease Faculty on the physiology of bacterial, viral, fungal, and parasitic pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, and the management of infectious diseases. Students will learn about current infectious disease research occurring on UGA campus.

An introduction to the rapidly emerging field of evolutionary medicine. The aim is to better understand the evolutionary nature of human health and disease. The course will apply central concepts from evolutionary biology (such as life history theory, coevolution, genomic conflict, constraints, and trade-offs) to problems in medicine and public health, including antibiotic resistance, aging, cancer, autoimmune disease, and pathogen virulence.

Analysis and presentation of primary research articles on infectious diseases, including microbial pathogen biology, pathogen-host interactions, disease transmission, and medical interventions.

Students will develop skills and acquire knowledge of arthropod vectors in the southeast. Students will be exposed to and perform a variety of standard entomological techniques for vector identification and taxonomy, field-based techniques for capturing or attracting vectors, and how these techniques are used by various agencies and personnel for vector control.

Immunology from an experimental perspective. Anatomy, development, and function of the immune system. Immune system in infectious diseases. Mechanisms and pathogenesis of immunological disorders. Evolution of immunological concepts.

Ecology and evolution of infectious diseases that affect free-living animals, plants and human populations. Topics include pathogen life history and transmission modes, epidemiology and impacts on hosts, evolution of resistance and virulence, emerging infectious diseases, and the role of parasites in wildlife conservation.

The course emphasizes how what we put into our gut influences the signals sent from the gut to the nervous, immune, and metabolic systems. This course will also cover how these signals become altered during metabolic disease such as obesity, and how these changes then impact the gut microbiome.