Courses - Fall 2026
BIOL
Biology
BIOL608K
Biology Seminar; Biological Sciences Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Credits:
2
Grad Meth:
Reg
Cross-listed with CBMG699K, CHEM608K, and ENTM699K. Credit will be grant edfor only one of the following: BIOL608K, CBMG699K, CHEM608K, or ENTM699K.
BIOL609
Special Problems in Biology
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
Reg
BIOL704
Cell Biology from a Biophysical Perspective
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg
Recommended: BSCI330, PHYS121, and PHYS122.
Cross-listed with: BIPH704.
Jointly offered with: BSCI404.
Credit only granted for: BSCI404, BIOL704, BIOL708O, or BIPH704.
Formerly: BIOL708O.
An approach to cell biology by focusing on mechanisms and unifying paradigms. It will not assume a great deal of factual biological knowledge, but will expect a background that prepares students to think quantitatively and mechanistically.
BIOL708J
Advanced Topics in Biology; Neurobiology of Extraordinary Senses
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, S-F
BIOL708L
Advanced Topics in Biology; Quantitative Analysis of Biological Data
Credits:
4
Grad Meth:
Reg, S-F
BIOL709C
Selected Advanced Topics in Biology; Population and Evolutionary Genetics
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Credit only granted for BSCI339J, BSCI405, or BIOL709C.
Genetic variation within a population provides the basis for future evolution as well as a record of past evolution. The genomics revolution provides data on this variation that, together with mathematical models, allow us to read this record to reconstruct evolutionary trajectories. Examples will focus on hominin and pathogen evolution. In the lab, students will use models to explore how genetic variation (allele frequencies) chagnes over time and space.
Genetic variation within a population provides the basis for future evolution as well as a record of past evolution. The genomics revolution provides data on this variation that, together with mathematical models, allow us to read this record to reconstruct evolutionary trajectories. Examples will focus on hominin and pathogen evolution. In the lab, students will use models to explore how genetic variation (allele frequencies) chagnes over time and space.
BIOL709V
Selected Advanced Topics in Biology; Biology of Vision
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud, S-F
BIOL721
Mathematical Population Biology
Credits:
3
Grad Meth:
Reg, Aud
Prerequisite: Calculus, differential equations, modeling, linear algebra, familiarity with mathematical software and programming languages (e.g., MATLAB, R, Python etc.); or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with: AMSC721, MATH721.
Credit only granted for: AMSC721, BIOL721 or MATH721.
Additional information: Open to advanced undergraduates by permission of instructor.
Foundational principles for modeling and analysis of real-life phenomena in population biology. Topics include design and analysis of models for general classes of unstructured (single species discrete-time and continuous-time, interacting populations etc.) and structured (spatially-structured, age- structured, sex-structured) population biology models in ecology and epidemiology, dynamics analysis of population biology models (asymptotic stability and bifurcation theory), numerical discretization of continuous-time models, statistical analysis (parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification).
Cross-listed with AMSC721 and MATH721. Credit only granted for AMSC721, AMSC721 or MATH721.
BIOL799
Master's Thesis Research
Credits:
1 - 6
Grad Meth:
S-F
BIOL898
Pre-Candidacy Research
Credits:
1 - 8
Grad Meth:
Reg
BIOL899
Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits:
6
Grad Meth:
S-F
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