Elective Courses

BIOC 124 - Critical Thinking and Scientific Writing 

• Spring '26 (recommended pre-qualifying exam)

BIOC 132 - Inorganic Biochemistry (enroll in CHEM 132)

• Spring '26

BIOL 127 - Biostatistics

• Fall '26

BIOL 128 - Biostatistics II:  Statistics and Experimental Design

• Fall '25

BIOL 147 - Genomics: From Data to Analysis

• Not offered '25-26

BIOL 166 - Molecular Basis of Cancer

• Winter '26

BIOL 171 - Current Topics in Cell Biology

• Spring '26

BIOL 173 - Cell Signaling

• Spring '26

BIOL 174 - Current Topics in Neurobiology

• Winter '26

BIOL 175 - Diseases of the Nervous System

• Not offered '25-26

BIOL 176 - Advanced Genetics

• Fall '25

BIOL 180 - Microscopy Principles and Application

• Winter '26

CHEM 101.06 - Computational Methods in Chemistry and Biophysics

• Spring '26

CHEM 131 - Topics in Advanced Inorganic Chemistry

• Spring '26

CHEM 132 - Inorganic Biochemistry (see BIOC 132)

• Spring '26

CHEM 161 - Topics in Biophysical Chemistry

• All versions of this course number are approved
• Spring '26

COSC 274 - Machine Learning and Statistical Data Analysis

• Fall, Winter, Spring

ENGS 161 - Microbial Physiology and Metabolic Engineering

• Winter '26

ENGG 162 - Basic Biological Circuit Engineering

• Winter '26

ENGS 163 - Advanced Protein Engineering

• Winter '26

ENGS 167 - Medical Imaging

• Fall '25

ENGG192.05 - Introduction to in vivo Fluorescence Molecular Imaging

• Spring

ENGG 199.18 - Biophotonics: Principles and Applications in Biomedicine

• Spring '26

IND 101 Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

• Fall '25

IND 211 - Neurobiology of Disease

• Spring '26

IND 245 - Basic and Clinical Aspects of Neuroimmunology

• Spring '25

GENE 118 - Advanced Topics in Genetics and Molecular Genetics

• Spring '26

GENE 145 - Genomics of Human Disease

• Cross listed as MICR145
• Winter '26

GENE 146 - Molecular and Computational Genomics

• Cross listed as QBS146
• Spring '26

GENE 148 - Biological Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics

• Winter '26

MICR 142 - Cellular and Molecular Basis of Immunity

• Winter '26

MICR 144 - Cellular and Molecular Basis of Immunity

• Spring '26

MICR 145 - Human Genetics

• Cross-listed as GENE 145
• Winter '26

MICR 146 - Immunotherapy

• Fall

MICR 148 - Advanced Molecular Pathogenesis

• Winter '26

MICR 149 - Microbial Physiology and Metabolism

• Fall '25

MICRO 150 - FAIR Bioinformatics/Omics Data (Offered through MDIBL)

• Last offering Summer 2025

MICR 167 - The Biology of Fungi and Parasites that Cause Disease

• Winter '23

QBS 119 - Foundations of Biostatistics I: Applied Biostatistics

• Fall '25

QBS 120 - Foundations of Biostatistics I: Statistical Inference

• Fall '25

QBS 121 - Foundations of Biostatistics II: Regression Modeling

• Spring '26

QBS 130 - Foundations of Epidemiology I: Theory and Methods

• Fall '25

QBS 132 - Molecular Biologic Markers in Human Health Studies

• Fall '25

QBS 133 - Clinical Epidemiology

• Spring '26

QBS 146 - Molecular and Computational Genomics

• Cross-listed as GENE 146
• Spring '26

BIOC 259 - Cell Biology: Cytoskeleton and Metabolism

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOC 260/CHEM 264 - Structural Biology

• Enroll in Chem 264
• Fall, Winter, Spring

ENGG 260 - Advances in Biotechnology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

GENE 260 - Biological Rhythms

• Fall, Winter, Spring

ENGG 261 - Biomass Energy Systems

• Winter '22

BIOC 261 - Phosphorylation Signaling

• Fall, Winter, Spring

GENE 261 - Cancer Biology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

CANB 261 - Cancer Mechanisms and Therapeutics

• Fall, Winter, Spring

GENE 262 - Neuroimmunology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

CHEM 263 - Bioinorganic Chemistry

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 263 - Cell Biology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

MICR 263 - Infectious Disease - Innate Immunity

• Fall, Winter, Spring

MICR 264 - Immunology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 265 - Microbial Ecology/Environmental Microbiology

• Fall, Spring

MICR 265 - Molecular Pathogenesis and Host-Microbe Interactions

• Winter, Spring

BIOL 268 - Genes and Gene Products

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 269 - Plant Molecular Biology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 274 - Cellular Neurobiology

• Fall, Winter, Spring

BIOL 275 - Cell Signaling in Development

• Fall, Winter, Spring

UNSG 300 - Communicating Science 

• Counts as one-time, one-term journal club for MCB
• Fall, Winter, Spring

QBS 193 - DNA Methylation and Cancer

• Fall, Winter, Spring

IND 600 - Advances in Integrative Neuroscience

• Fall, Winter, Spring

COSC 189/200 - Topics in Applied Computer Science

• Fall, Winter, Spring