Biology 350 - SEM: TOPICS-INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Fall
2017
01
3.00
Steven Williams
T 03:00-04:50
Smith College
10242-F17
FORD 015
swilliam@smith.edu
Topics course.: This seminar focuses on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), parasitic and viral diseases other rare diseases that are a public health concern, including Ebola, Chikungunya, Dengue Fever, West Nile, SARS, avian influenza, malaria, river blindness, anthrax and smallpox. We look at pandemics of the past (the influenza of 1918, the Black Death of the Middle Ages, the typhus epidemic of 1914–21) and modern biotechnology. The challenges are great, but new tools of molecular biology (genomics, proteomics, RNA interference, next-generation sequencing, etc.) provide an unprecedented opportunity to understand and develop new strategies for their elimination. Prerequisite: BIO 230 or instructor permission.
Not open to first-years, sophomores
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.