Please note:
For students interested in taking a minicourse:
Participating programs*: Your program coordinator will send you the instructions for choosing minicourses.
*BMI, BMS, CCB, DSCB, PSPG, Neuroscience, Tetrad
Other programs: Please first check the course listing to make sure the course you are interested in is not already full. Then e-mail the Administrator associated with the course to request permission to be enrolled (please note any pre-requisites).
Please do not add a minicourse to your study list until after you have received confirmation from the administrator that you have been enrolled in the course.
Module 1 (Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 17, 2026)
| COURSE NUMBER | COURSE NAME | COURSE DIRECTOR | CAMPUS | SCHEDULE | details |
| BMI 219 | Identifying and phenotyping tumors with a liquid biopsy | David Quigley | MB | M/W/F, 3-5pm | details |
| BMS 270 | Advanced Topics in Pediatric Oncology | Amit Sabnis | MB | M/W/F, 1pm-3pm | details |
| BMS 270 | Introduction to Human Biology and Medicine - GEMS | Scott Kogan | PH | 45 hours of class to be scheduled between 9am and 5pm in a 3-week period | details |
| BMS 270 | Immune Cell Engineering | Justin Eyquem | PH | M-F, 9am-11am | details |
| PSPG 245C | Principles of Pharmacogenomics | Nadav Ahituv | MB | M/W/TH/F, 10am-12pm | details |
| GRAD 219 | Research on Racism in Science, Measured Harm: Violence Epidemiology, Healthcare Disparities, and Black LGBTQ+ Women | D'Anne Duncan | Zoom | T/TH, 3-5pm (PT) | details |
Module 2 (Monday, April 20 - Friday, May 8, 2026)
| COURSE NUMBER | COURSE NAME | COURSE DIRECTOR | CAMPUS | SCHEDULE | details |
| BP 219 | Epistasis and Allostery: What are they? Are they real? | Willow Coyote-Maestas | MB | Wednesdays, 10am-12pm Fridays, 1-3pm | details |
| BioE 219/BMS 270 | Applying Science to Policymaking | Jeannie Bailey | MB | M/W/F, 3-5pm | details |
| BMS 270 | Mammalian Metabolism | Sagar Bapat | PH | T/W/TH, 1:30-3:30pm | details |
| BMS 270 | Molecular and Computational Approaches in Neuro-Oncology | Joanna Phillips | MB | M/W/F, 2pm-4pm | details |
| BMS 270 | Designing Vaccines for Challenging Pathogens | Rachel Rutishauser | PH | T/W/TH, 2pm-4pm | details |
| BMS 270/BIOCHEM 210/BP 219 | Light Sheet Microscopy | Torsten Wittmann | PH | 2 afternoons 1-4 pm; days TBD; 6 sessions total | details |
| BIOCHEM 210/BP 219 | Form, Function and Force: A Deep Dive Into the Cytoskeleton | Dyche Mullins | MB | M/W/F, 9am-12pm, except April 6th, 9-11am due to GRAD 214 | details |
| BIOCHEM 210 | Science Communication | Jennifer Frazier | MB | M-F, 1pm-3pm (no class May 8th) | details |
| BIOCHEM 210 | Modern Approach to Evolutions | Sandy Johnson/David Booth | MB | M-F, 2pm-4pm | details |
| CHEM 219 | Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics | Al Burlingame | MB | M/TH, 1pm-3pm | details |
| BMI 219 | Statistical Software Development in R | Sergio Baranzini/Wanjun Gu | MB | M/W/F, 1pm-2:30pm | details |
| GRAD 219 | Research on Racisim in Science: Race and Biomedicine: Knowing and Living the Body | D'Anne Duncan | Zoom | M/W, 2-5pm (PT) | details |
Module 3 (Monday, May 11 - Friday, May 29, 2026)
| COURSE NUMBER | COURSE NAME | COURSE DIRECTOR | CAMPUS | SCHEDULE | details |
| BP 219/CHEM 219/BIOCHEM 210 | CryoEM Mini Course | Kliment Verba | MB | M/W/F, 9am-12pm | details |
| BP 219 | Peer Review on AI in Biology | James Fraser | MB | 5/11, 5/12, 5/13, 5/18-22, 5/26: 3-5PM | details |
| BMS 270/BIOCHEM 210/CHEM 219 | iMicro Microbial Pathogenesis | Suzanne Noble | PH or MB | M-5, 9:30am-11:30am | details |
| BMS 270/BMI 219 | Computational Immunology | Marina Sirota | PH and MB (attendance required at both campuses) | T/TH, 2pm-5pm | details |
| BMS 270 | Applied Biostatistics | Adam Ferguson | MB | M/T/F, 1pm-3:15pm | details |
| BMS 270/CHEM 219 | Current Approaches to Quantitative Proteomics in Biology | Daniel Swaney | MB | M/W/F, 9:30am-11:50am | details |
| CHEM 219 | Introduction to Drug Discovery | Jason Gestwicki | MB | T/TH, 10:00am-12:00pm | details |
| GRAD 219 | Research on Racism in Science: Race, Non-Consent, and Inequity | D'Anne Duncan | Zoom | M/TH, 1:30-3:30pm (PT) | details |
| BIOCHEM 210 | Principles of Tissue Organization | Zev Gartner | MB | M/W/F, 1:00pm-3:00pm | details |
| BMI 219 | Introduction to Genetic Epidemiology | Shea Andrews | MB | M/W/F, 10:00am-12:00pm | details |
*Monday, May 26 is a campus holiday, third module minicourses can schedule class sessions on Monday, June 1, if needed to make up for the missed day.