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Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2025
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BIOS 553 001 (CRN: 13170)
MICROBIOLOGY: INFECT DISEASES
Long Title: MICROBIOLOGY: THE MOLECULAR BASIS FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THEIR TREATMENT
Department: Biosciences
Instructor: Shamoo, Yousif
Meeting: 9:25AM - 10:40AM TR (25-AUG-2025 - 5-DEC-2025)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Course Materials: Rice Campus Store
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Graduate
Section Max Enrollment: 2
Section Enrolled: 2
Total Cross-list Max Enrollment: 30
Total Cross-list Enrolled: 30
Waitlisted: 18 (Max 198)
Current members of the waitlist have priority for available seats.
Enrollment data as of: 20-APR-2025 8:18AM
Final Exam: GR Course-Dept Schedules Exam
Description: BIOS 353/553 is a one-semester course that surveys a representative group of bacterial and viral infectious diseases and the medical countermeasures used to defeat them or in some cases just keep them in check. The course begins with a brief history of how infectious diseases have shaped human history and progresses to present day challenges including emerging pathogens both natural and man-made. We will do deep dives of several important pandemic diseases to understand their epidemiological contexts, pathogenesis and disease states. We will then examine how vaccines, antiviral and antimicrobial strategies work to protect human health at the molecular level. Importantly, we will then examine how molecular evolution provides adaptation to various biomedical interventions and why the fight against infectious diseases cannot be easily won. Cross-list: BIOS 353.