Microbiology 597Z - ST-MedicalZoologyJournalClub

This is a literature review style course for advanced undergraduate and graduate students interested in zoonotic disease. Zoonotic diseases are those whose transmission cycles involve non-human animal hosts. Topics within this large framework vary with interests of enrollees, but there tends to be a focus on vector-borne disease including those most often associated with ticks and mosquitoes. Medical Zoology is a transdisciplinary approach to understand disease by incorporating broad disciplinary background (eg. entomology, physiology, genetics, ecology, etc.). The course meets once per week and each student is expected to choose and lead discussion on peer reviewed paper (or set of papers). Aims are to build students? capacity for searching sources and critically evaluating science literature.