Current Topics in Immunobiology and Host-microbe Interactions. 1 Credit Hour

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This course is designed to enhance and expand on the existing Research Progress Report (RPR) course ( MICR 5090 ) that is required of all graduate students in the Molecular Immunology & Microbiology discipline of the IBMS Graduate Program. Although the RPR course allows students to gain experience with regard to making formal lecture presentations of their research, it is limited in that students present their work only once a year, the opportunity for full discussion is limited by the time available after presentations, and being a course in which participants are exclusively students, there are no opportunities to observe examples of how skilled seasoned investigators (i.e., faculty and postdoctoral fellows) present their work. In the currently proposed course, graduate students will not only have more frequent opportunities to present their own research and receive vital feedback and critiques, but will also hear and critique presentations by more senior investigators regarding projects performed in labs throughout the Department of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics. Prerequisites: MICR 5090 .