Biology 321 - Seminar: Topics in Microbiology: Emerging Infectious Diseases--The Race for a Cure

Topics course: This seminar will emphasize the role of immunology in disease manifestation, vaccine design, and biologics to better understand how we can more effectively treat and prevent COVID-19 infections. The goal is to have students use their foundational knowledge in immunology and apply it to this real-time, highly significant pandemic. The class will also explore questions of public health, politics, social justice, and economics that are intricately woven into our decisions on how to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Other emerging infectious diseases where we have (or had) the same needs (e.g., influenza, Zika, Ebola, MERS/SARS) will be examined to understand what we can learn from these case studies.

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores