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MCB Courses for Graduate Students

Course # Title/Description Hours SP FA SU Web Site
MCB 400 Cancer Cell Biology
3 FA Web Site
MCB 401 Cell & Membrane Physiology
3 FA Web Site
MCB 402 Sys & Integrative Physiology
3 SP Web Site
MCB 403 Cell & Membrane Physiology Lab
1 or 2 FA Web Site
MCB 404 Sys & Integrative Physiol Lab
1 to 2 SP Web Site
MCB 408 Immunology
3 SP Web Site
MCB 410 Developmental Biology
4 SP Web Site
MCB 413 Endocrinology
3 FA Web Site
MCB 419 Brain, Behavior & Info Process
Equivalent to: BIOE 419, BIOP 419, NEUR 419
3 SP Web Site
MCB 421 Microbial Genetics
3 SP Web Site
MCB 424 Microbial Biochemistry
Offered in spring of even numbered years only. 		3 SP
MCB 426 Bacterial Pathogenesis
3 FA Web Site
MCB 428 Bacterial Pathogens Laboratory
2 FA Web Site
MCB 429 Cellular Microbiology &Disease
3 SP Web Site
MCB 431 Microbial Physiology
3 FA Web Site
MCB 432 Computing in Molecular Biology
3 SP Web Site
MCB 433 Virology & Viral Pathogenesis
Equivalent to: PATH 433
3 SP
MCB 434 Food & Industrial Microbiology
Equivalent to: FSHN 471
3 SP
MCB 435 Microbial Ecology & Evolution
3 SP Web Site
MCB 436 Global Biosecurity
1 FA
MCB 442 Comparative Immunobiology
Equivalent to: ANSC 450, PATH 510
Offered in spring of even numbered years only. 		4 SP
MCB 446 Physical Biochemistry
Equivalent to: BIOC 446, CHEM 472
3 SP Web Site
MCB 450 Introductory Biochemistry
3 SP FA Web Site
MCB 461 Cell & Molecular Neuroscience
Equivalent to: NEUR 461
3 FA
MCB 462 Integrative Neuroscience
Equivalent to: NEUR 462
3 SP
MCB 480 Eukaryotic Cell Signaling
3 SP Web Site
MCB 492 Senior Thesis
3 to 5 SP FA
MCB 493 Special Topics Mol Cell Biol
Sections ACB, BAW, BHP, DFC, GGA, HMD and MHD of MCB 493 will count as Advanced Courses. 		1 to 4 SP FA Web Site
MCB 501 Advanced Biochemistry
4 FA Web Site
MCB 502 Advanced Molecular Genetics
4 FA Web Site
MCB 508 Intro to Systems Neuroscience
4 SP FA
MCB 509 Curr Topics Mol & Int Physiol
2 SP FA
MCB 511 Mol Bio of Microbe-Plant Inter
Equivalent to: PLPA 509
3 SP
MCB 512 Advanced Endocrinology
Equivalent to: ANSC 530, VB 512
2 SP FA Web Site
MCB 513 Survey of Neurobiology
1 FA
MCB 519 Computational Brain Theory
1 SP FA
MCB 520 Advanced Molecular Biology
1 SP
MCB 521 Advanced Microbial Genetics
1 SP FA
MCB 526 Adv Bacterial Pathogenesis
1 FA
MCB 527 Human Neuroscience
Equivalent to: NEUR 527
3 SP
MCB 528 Evolution in a Microbial World
3 SP
MCB 529 Special Topics Cell Devel Biol
1 to 4 SP FA Web Site
MCB 530 Reproductive Physiol Seminar
1 SP FA
MCB 531 Adv Reproductive Endocrinology
3 SP
MCB 532 Advanced Microbial Physiology
1 FA
MCB 533 Repro Physiology Lab Methods
Equivalent to: ANSC 533, VB 533
1 to 3 SP FA
MCB 534 Advanced Microbial Metabolism
1 SP
MCB 539 Advanced Cellular Microbiology
1 SP
MCB 550 Biomolecular Physics
Equivalent to: BIOP 550, PHYS 550
4 SP FA
MCB 551 Adv Top Biochemistry
1 or 2 SP FA
MCB 553 Enzyme Reaction Mechanisms
Equivalent to: CHEM 572
3 or 4 SP
MCB 554 Genomics, Proteomics, Bioinfo
3 or 4 SP
MCB 555 Anlys Biochemical Literature
2 SP FA
MCB 561 Mechanisms Viral Pathogenesis
3 FA
MCB 571 Bioinformatics
4 FA
MCB 580 Res Ethics & Responsibilities
1 SP Web Site
MCB 581 Laboratory Rotation I
3 SP FA
MCB 582 Laboratory Rotation II
3 SP FA
MCB 583 Laboratory Rotation III
3 SP FA
MCB 585 Current Topics in Microbiology
1 SP FA
MCB 595 MCB Graduate Seminar
1 FA
MCB 661 Human Pharmacology II
4 SP
BIOC 440 Physical Chemistry Principles
Equivalent to: CHEM 440B
Only Section B is approved as an advanced MCB course. 		4 FA Web Site
BIOC 445 Current Topics in Biochemistry
3 SP
BIOC 446 Physical Biochemistry
Equivalent to: CHEM 472, MCB 446
3 SP Web Site
BIOC 455 Technqs Biochem & Biotech
4 SP Web Site
BIOC 460 Biochemistry Senior Seminar
3 FA
BIOC 492 Senior Thesis
2 to 6 SP FA
BIOC 555 Anlys Biochemical Literature
2 FA
BIOC 590 Individual Topics
1 to 16 SP FA
BIOC 595 Biochemistry Seminar
0 to 1 SP FA
BIOC 599 Thesis Research
0 to 16 SP FA
BIOP 401 Introduction to Biophysics
3 FA
BIOP 419 Brain, Behavior & Info Process
Equivalent to: MCB 419, BIOE 419, NEUR 419
3 SP
BIOP 432 Photosynthesis
Equivalent to: CPSC 489, IB 421
3 FA
BIOP 550 Biomolecular Physics
Equivalent to: MCB 550, PHYS 550
4 SP FA
BIOP 581 Lab Rotation I
2 FA
BIOP 582 Lab Rotation II
2 FA
BIOP 583 Lab Rotation III
2 FA
BIOP 586 Special Topics in Biophysics
1 to 4 SP FA
BIOP 590 Individual Topics
2 to 10 SP FA
BIOP 595 Biophysics Seminars
1 to 2 SP FA
BIOP 599 Thesis Research
0 to 16 SP FA
MIP 590 Individual Topics
1 to 8 SP FA SU
MIP 595 Seminars in Physiology
0 to 1 SP FA
MIP 599 Thesis Research
0 to 16 SP FA SU
NEUR 403 Memory and Amnesia
Equivalent to: PSYC 403
3 or 4 SP
NEUR 413 Psychopharmacology
Equivalent to: PSYC 413
3 or 4 SP
NEUR 414 Brain, Learning, and Memory
3 or 4 SP FA
NEUR 419 Brain, Behavior & Info Process
Equivalent to: MCB 419, BIOE 419, BIOP 419
3 SP
NEUR 421 Principles of Psychophysiology
3 or 4 FA
NEUR 453 Cog Neuroscience of Vision
3 or 4 FA
NEUR 461 Cell & Molecular Neuroscience
3 FA
NEUR 462 Integrative Neuroscience
3 SP
NEUR 500 Topics in Neuroscience
1 FA
NEUR 508 Intro to Systems Neuroscience
4 SP FA
NEUR 510 Advances in Psychobiology
Equivalent to: PSYC 510
3 or 4 SP
NEUR 511 Adv Physiological Psych
Equivalent to: PSYC 511
2 SP FA
NEUR 513 Survey of Neurobiology
1 FA
NEUR 520 Adv Topics in Neuroscience
1 SP FA
NEUR 527 Human Neuroscience
Equivalent to: MCB 527
3 SP
NEUR 590 Indiv Topics Neuroscience
1 to 16 SP FA
NEUR 591 Computational Brain Theory
1 FA
NEUR 598 Proseminar in Psychology
0 to 4 SP FA
NEUR 599 Thesis Research
0 to 16 SP FA