Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: MICROBE HUNTERS REVISITED

Department: Biochemistry and Cell Biology

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 2

Description: This seminar will review important microbiologists and their discoveries of infectious agents. From Pasteur to Prusiner, we will review the infectious agents they described, as well as the methods used for their discovery. The classic text by Paul de Kruif entitled "Microbe Hunters" will be the basis for half of the course material.