Spring 2020 Minicourses
To sign up for minicourses, please reference the below courses.
Refer to instructions provided by your home graduate program for the minicourse selection process.
Module 1 (Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 17, 2020) |
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| COURSE NUMBER | COURSE NAME | COURSE DIRECTOR(S) | DAYS/TIMES | CAMPUS | |
| BMS 270 | Introduction to Human Biology and Medicine (GEMS) | Scott Kogan | Mon through Fri, between 9am-4pm | PH | details |
| BMS 270 | Advanced Topics in Pediatric Oncology | Alejandro Sweet-Cordero | Mon, Wed, Fri, 1:00-3:15p | MB | details (full) |
| BP 219/Biochem 210 | Cellular Robotics | Jennifer Fung | Mon through Friday, 10:00a-12:00p | MB | CANCELED |
| BMI 219 | Disparities in human genetic research and health care across people with different ancestries | Jeff Wall | Mon, Wed, Fri, 10:00a-12:00p | MB |
details (full) |
| PSPG 219 | Pharmacokinetic Modeling Course | Rada Savic | Mon through Friday 1:00-3:00p | MB | details |
| NEUROSCI 219 | Mood and Anxiety Circuits | Mazen Kheirbek and Lisa Gunaydin | Mon, Wed, Fri, 10:00a-12:00p | MB | CANCELED |
Module 2 (Monday, April 20 - Friday, May 8, 2020) |
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| COURSE NUMBER | COURSE NAME | COURSE DIRECTOR(S) | DAYS/TIMES | CAMPUS | |
| BMS 270/DSCB 270/Biochem 210 | Mechanisms Underlying Morphological and Physiological Diversity in Evolution and Disease | Licia Selleri, Alex Pollen ang Guo Huang | Mon, Wed, Fri, 1:00-3:15p | PH | details |
| BMS 270 | Features and Mechanisms of Neurodegenerative Diseases: Focus on data derived from studies in humans | Lea Grinberg | Mon and Thurs 9:00a-12:30p, Fri 9:00a-12:00p | MB | CANCELED |
| BMS 270 | Translational Research in Neuro-Oncology | Joanna Phillips | Mon, Wed, Fri, 2:00p-4:00p | MB | details |
| BMS 270 | iMicro Microbial Pathogenesis | Suzanne Noble | Mon through Fri, 9:30a-11:00a | MB | details |
| BMS 270 | Tumor Immunogenomics & Tumor Microenvironment | Melissa Reeves | Mon, Tues, Thurs 1:00-3:15p | PH | details (full) |
| BMI 219 | Deep Learning for Biological Research: Advanced Topics | Mike Keiser | Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00-12:00 - Tues, Thurs 1:00 - 3:00 | MB | details (full) |
| CCB 219 | Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry | Al Burlingame | Wed, Fri 1:00-3:00p | MB | details (full) |
| CCB219/Biochem 210/PSPG 219/BP219 | Peer Review in the Life Sciences | Jaime Fraser | Mon, Thurs, Fri 3:00-5:00p | MB | details (full) |
| Biochem 210 | Classic Papers on the Cytoskeleton | Dyche Mullins | Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00a-12:00p | MB | details |
| Biochem 210 | Principles in Virology | Raul Andino | 2:00-4:00p | MB | details |
| BP 219/Biochem 210 | Cryo-EM | Adam Frost | Mon, Wed, Fri 10:00a-1:00p | MB | CANCELED |
| PSPG 219 | CRISPR Therapeutics | Navneet Matharu | Mon, Wed, Fri 1:30-4:00p | MB | details |
Module 3 (Monday, May 11 - Friday, May 29, 2020*) |
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| COURSE NUMBER | COURSE NAME | COURSE DIRECTOR(S) | DAYS/TIMES | CAMPUS | |
| BMS 270 | Applied Biostatistics | Adam Ferguson | Mon, Tues, Fri, 1:00-3:15p | MB | details (full) |
| BMS 270/BMI 219 | Computational Immunology | Marina Sirota and Matt Spitzer | Tues, Thurs, 2:00-5:00p | MB | details (full) |
| BMS 270/DSCB 270 | Epigenetics of Development and Disease | Daniel Lim | Tues, Thurs Fri, 10:00a-12:15p | PH | details (full) |
| BMS 270 | Current Approaches to Quantitative Proteomics in Biology | Arun Wiita | Mon, Wed, Fri, 9:00a-12:00p | MB |
details (full) |
| BMS 270/BMI 219 | Microbiomes Controversies | Peter Turnbaugh and Suzanne Noble | Mon through Fri, 3:00-5:00p | PH | CANCELED |
| BMS 270/DSCB 270 | Vision Science Mini Course | Deepak Lamba | Mon, Wed, Fri, 5:00-7:15pm | PH | details |
| BMS 270/DSCB 270/Biochem 210 | Vesicular Biology | Robert Blelloch | Mon, Tues, Fri, 2:00-4:00p | PH | CANCELED |
| Biochem 210/CCB 219 | The Protein Homeostasis Network in Health and Disease | Martin Kampmann and Jason Gestwicki | Mon, Wed, Fri, 9:00a-12:00p | MB | details (full) |
| CCB 219 | Drug Discovery | Michelle Arkin | Mon, Wed, 1:00-4:00p | MB | details |
| Biochem 210 | Classic Papers in Biology | Bruce Alberts and Danica Fujimori | May 13,18-22,26-29, 1:30-4:00p | MB | details (full) |
| Biochem 210/BMS 270/DSCB 270 | The CRISPR Revolution | Michael McManus, Joe Bondy-Denomy and Luke Gilbert | Mon, Wed, Fri 3:00-5:00p | MB | details (full) |
| PSPG 219 | Principles of Pharmacogenomics | Nadav Ahituv | Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 9:00a-12:00p | MB | details |
| BP 219 | Principles of structure determination by X-ray, CryoEM and Neutron diffraction and scattering | Bob Stroud | May 13-31, 1:00-4:00p | MB | CANCELED |
| NEUROSCI 219 | Pathobiology of the Basal Ganglia | Ken Nakamura and Philip Starr | Mon, Wed, Fri, 9:00-11:00a | MB | CANCELED |
| NEUROSCI 219 | Imaging for Neuroscience | Evan Feinberg and Michael Stryker | Tue, Wed, Thurs, 1:00-3:00p | MB | details |
*Monday, May 25 is a campus holiday. Third module minicourses can schedule class sessions during the week of Monday, 6/1- Friday, 6/5/2020 if needed to make up for the missed day.