Course List

The Interschool Quantitative Biosciences graduate certificate requires completion of the following courses.

Students who believe that the breadth designations are incorrect should contact a director.

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Breadth category questions?

Quantitative (Q) vs. Biosciences (B)

ArtSci (A), Engineering (E), Medicine (M)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Q

A

BIOL

404

Fitting Models to Data: Maximum Likelihood Methods and Model Selection

3

 

 

Q

A

BIOL

415

Quantitative Biology Laboratory

3

 

 

Q

A

BIOL

421

Design and Analysis of Biological Experiments

3

 

 

Q

A

BIOL

452

Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases

3

 

 

Q

A

BIOL

473

Introduction to Neurobiology

3

 

 

Q

A

BIOL

478

Computational Neuroscience

3

 

 

Q

A

MATH

419

Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes for Biology

3

 

 

Q

A

MATH

497

Stochastic Models: Time Series and Markov Chains

3

MATH 491

 

Q

A

MATH

598

Stochastic Models: Diffusive Phenomena and Stochastic Differential Equations

3

 

 

Q

A

PHYS

420

Introduction to Biological Physics

3

 

 

Q

A

PHYS

430

Experimental Methods in Biophysics

3

 

 

Q

A

PHYS

431

Physics of Imaging

3

 

 

Q

A

PHYS

460

Advanced Topics in NMR Imaging

3

 

 

Q

E

CSDS

440

Machine Learning

3

CSDS 491

 

Q

E

CSDS

442

Causal Learning from Data

3

CSDS 440

 

Q

E

CSDS

458

Introduction to Bioinformatics

3

 

 

Q

E

CSDS

459

Bioinformatics for Systems Biology

3

CSDS 458

 

Q

E

CSDS

491

Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic Graphical Models

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

410

Medical Imaging Fundamentals

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

432

Quantitative Analysis of Physiological Systems

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

433

Advanced Topics for Physiological Systems Analysis

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

434

Methodologies for Modeling Physiological Systems

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

461

Biomedical Image Processing and Analysis

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

401D

Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing

3

 

 

Q

E

EMAC

402

Polymer Foundation Course II: Physical Chemistry

3

 

 

Q

E

EMAC

403

Polymer Foundation Course III: Physics

3

 

 

Q

E

EMAC

453

Foundations of Scattering

3

EMAC 402, EMAC 403

 

Q

E

EMAE

414

Nanobiomechanics in Biology

3

 

 

Q

E

EMAE

415

Introduction to Musculo-skeletal Biomechanics

3

 

 

Q

E

EMAE

466

Mechanics of Biological Fluids

3

 

 

Q

M

PQHS

431

Statistical Methods I

3

 

 

Q

M

PQHS

432

Statistical Methods II

3

PQHS 431

 

Q

M

SYBB

402

Introduction to Scientific Computing

1

 

 

Q

M

SYBB

412

Survey of Bioinformatics: Programming for Bioinformatics

3

SYBB 411A

 

Q

M

SYBB

411A

Survey of Bioinformatics: Technologies in Bioinformatics

1

 

 

Q

M

SYBB

411B

Survey of Bioinformatics: Data Integration in Bioinformatics

1

 

 

Q

M

SYBB

411C

Survey of Bioinformatics: Translational Bioinformatics

1

 

 

B

A

BIOL

414

Taming the Tree of Life: Phylogenetic Comparative Methods

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

416

Fundamental Immunology

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

422

Sensory Biology

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

424

Introduction to Stem Cell Biology

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

426

Genetics

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

427

Functional Genomics

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

428

Plant Genomics and Proteomics

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

429

Genome Dynamics

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

443

Microbiology

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

451

Principles of Ecology

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

462

Principles of Developmental Biology

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

468

Topics in Evolutionary Biology

3

 

 

B

A

BIOL

471

Foundations of Advanced Ecology

3

BIOL 451

 

B

A

BIOL

472

Foundations of Advanced Evolution

3

 

 

B

A

CHEM

428

Introductory Biochemistry I

3

 

 

B

A

CHEM

429

Biochemistry II: Living Systems

3

 

 

B

E

EBME

406

Polymers in Medicine

3

 

 

B?

E

EBME

407

Neural Interfacing

3

 

E-mail Dustin Tyler

B

E

EBME

411

Underpinnings of the Extracellular Matrix

3

 

 

B

E

EBME

416

Biomaterials for Drug Delivery

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

421

Bioelectric Phenomena

3

 

 

B

E

EBME

426

Nanomedicine

3

EBME 416

 

B? Bolu

E

EBME

427

Movement Biomechanics and Rehabilitation

3

 

 

B

E

EBME

451

Molecular and Cellular Physiology

3

 

 

? Andrew

E

EBME

465

Biomedical Optical Imaging

3

 

 

B

E

EBME

474

Biotransport Processes

3

 

 

B?

E

ECHE

486

Protein Engineering

3

 

maybe quantitative?

B

E

EMAC

401

Polymer Foundation Course I: Organic Chemistry

3

 

 

B

M

BIOC

407

Introduction to Biochemistry: From Molecules To Medical Science

4

undergrad organic chemistry

 

B

M

BIOC

408

Molecular Biology

4

 

 

B

M

BIOC

412

Proteins and Enzymes

3

 

 

B

M

BIOC

420

Current Topics in Cancer

3

IBMS 453, IBMS 455

 

B

M

BIOC

432

Current Topics in Vision Research

3

 

 

B

M

BIOC

434

Structural Biology

3

 

 

B

M

BIOC

450

Molecular Basis of Cancer

3

BIOC 407, BIOC 408 (co-req)

 

B

M

BIOC

452

Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolism

3

 

 

B

M

BIOC

454

Biochemistry and Biology of RNA

3

 

 

B

M

BIOC

501

Biochemical and Cellular Techniques for Biotechnology

3

 

 

B

M

BIOC

599

RNA Structure and Function

3

 

 

B

M

IBMS

453

Cell Biology I

3

 

 

B

M

IBMS

455

Molecular Biology I

3

 

 

B

M

NEUR

401

Biological Mechanisms of Brain Disorders

3

 

 

B

M

NEUR

402

Principles of Neural Science

3

 

 

B

M

PHOL

410

Basic Oxygen & Physiological Function

3

 

 

B

M

PHOL

412

Membrane Transport Processes

3

 

 

B

M

PHOL

456

Conversations on Protein Structure and Function

2

 

 

B

M

PHOL

466

Cell Signaling

3

 

 

Q

M

PHOL

475

Protein Biophysics

3

 

 

B

M

PHOL

480

Physiology of Organ Systems

4

 

 

B

M

PHOL

481

Medical Physiology I

6

 

 

B

M

PHOL

482

Medical Physiology II

6

 

 

B

M

PHOL

483

Translational Physiology I

3

 

 

B

M

PHOL

484

Translational Physiology II

3

PHOL 482 (co-req)

 

B

M

PHOL

485

Comparative & Evolutionary Physiology

4

 

 

B

M

PHOL

401A

Physiology and Biophysics of Molecules and Cells

2

 

 

B

M

PHOL

401B

Physiology and Biophysics of Molecules and Cells

2

 

 

B

M

PHOL

401C

Human Physiology: A Molecular Understanding of Organ System Function

2

PHOL 401A, PHOL 401B

 

B

M

PHOL

402A,B

Physiological Basis for Disease

3

 

 

Q

E

ECIV

461

Environmental Engineering Biotechnology

3

 

 

Q

E

ECHE

340

Biochemical Engineering

3

 

 

Q

E

EBME

350

Quantitative Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Bioengineering

3