Scientific Experience

Graduate Coursework

MB 535

Bacterial Pathogenesis (Fall 2025)

Focuses on basic principles of bacterial pathogenesis, including mechanisms utilized by these microbes to attach/adhere, internalize or invade, and disseminate through their animal hosts. Bacterial strategies to subvert host defenses and persist within their animal hosts' defense mechanisms, and virulence gene regulation will also be discussed.

Grant Proposal Project

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GN 521

Molecular Genetics (Fall 2025)

Biological macromolecules and their interactions, DNA topology, eukaryotic genome structure, chromatin and chromosome structure, transcription and transcription regulation, epigenetics, RNAi and RNA processing, recombinant DNA technology, genetic transformation and cloning of plants and animals. Bacteria, viruses, plants, animals, and fungi as genetic systems.

BIT 510 (coming soon)

Core Technologies in Molecular and Cellular Biology (Spring 2026)

Basic technologies of recombinant DNA procedures, gene expression, isolation, and identification of nucleic acids and proteins.

Undergraduate Coursework

General Biology 1 & 2
General Chemistry 1, 2, & Labs
Organic Chemistry 1, 2, & Labs
Microbiology & Lab
Molecular Biology & Lab
Physics 1, 2, and Labs
Calculus for the Life Sciences
General Genetics
Microbiology & Public Health
Biochemistry 1
Immunology
Virology
Parisitology
Microbial Pathogenesis