Courses

Biotechnology deals with the application of living organisms, biological systems and processes or their derivatives to manufacture or modify a product and to render a service. The course combines knowledge from Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Genetics,...

This course designed to acquaint students with the chemistry, biological activities and mechanisms of action and environmental impact of pesticides. History and classes of pesticides; natural products as leads for development of pesticides; molecular basis...

Students will be taken through full grant proposal writing and required to submit proposals in topics to be specified

This course is an advanced study of Immunology and takes a detailed look at the molecular mechanisms through which the immune system responds to pathogens. A major goal of the course is to prepare students for research in the fields of Immunology, disease...

This is an advanced course on cell signaling designed to give students insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms and current trends in signal transduction research. The format includes lectures, presentations of original literature by students, and...

In this course, a number of model organisms will be used as the context within which to discuss the fundamental processes that lead to the generation of a whole organism from a single cell zygote. The activation and sequence of molecular events and the...

This course is designed to equip students with advanced bioenergetics background. The main objective is to give students insights into the role of mitochondria in health and diseases. The major topics to be covered are: mitochondrial biogenesis and oxidative...

The goal of this course is to expose students to advanced topics in protein chemistry. Major topics such as physical properties of proteins, separation techniques, protein structure and stability, post-translational modifications, protein structure prediction...

This course is a newly developing area of science that uses computational approaches to answer biological questions. It involves searching biological databases, comparing sequences, looking at protein structures and asking biological and biomedical questions...

This course focuses on the study of life using techniques that reveal the molecular make-up of organisms. A The major topics will include: key tools for cloning, gene identification and DNA libraries, sequencing, PCR; production of proteins from cloned genes...