Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• GRS BI 791: Graduate Laboratory Rotations 1
  Graduate students perform laboratory rotations with faculty with whom they may choose to perform their PhD dissertation research. Through critical reading, writing, laboratory meetings, faculty-student meetings and hands-on research, students are exposed to the faculty members research and laboratory environment.
• GRS BI 792: Graduate Laboratory Rotations 2
  Graduate students perform laboratory rotations with faculty with whom they may choose to perform their PhD dissertation research. Through critical reading, writing, laboratory meetings, faculty-student meetings and hands-on research, students are exposed to the faculty members research and laboratory environment.
• GRS BI 795: Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health: From Research to Policy
  Students learn how cities utilize scientific findings to address urban environmental challenges and develop communication skills to effectively translate scientific results to decision-makers and the public. Students complete a semester-long internship to gain experience applying scientific knowledge to decision making.
• GRS BI 911: Research in Behavior and Ecology
  
• GRS BI 912: Research in Behavior and Ecology
  
• GRS BI 925: Research in Cell and Molecular Biology
  
• GRS BI 926: Research in Cell and Molecular Biology
  
• GRS BI 929: Research in Genetics
  
• GRS BI 935: Research in Marine Biology
  
• GRS BI 936: Research in Marine Biology
  
• GRS BI 939: Research in Neurobiology
  
• GRS BI 940: Research in Neurobiology
  
• GRS BI 941: Research in Evolution
  
• GRS BI 942: Research in Evolution
  
• GRS BI 945: Research in Forest Ecology
  
• GRS CH 623: Chemical Biology
  Research at the chemistry-biology interface, including directed evolution, unnatural amino acid mutagenesis, chemical genetics, proteomics, and fluorescent reporters of enzyme function. Reading, discussing and evaluating the current chemical biology literature is a significant component of the course.
• GRS CH 624: Macromolecular Structure Determination
  This course covers the determination of structures of biological macromolecules including RNA, DNA, and proteins. Topics include macromolecular assemblies and symmetry, crystal forms, diffraction, phase determination, data acquisition, model building and refinement, model analysis and homology modeling.
• GRS CH 625: Enzymology: Mechanisms of Enzymatic Reactions
  Covers enzyme structure-function relationships. A tool-box of methods is presented, including kinetics (steady state and pre-steady state methods), isotope effects, stereo-chemical methods, site-directed mutagenesis, methods to replace natural with unnatural amino acids, mechanism based inhibitors.
• GRS CH 626: Epigenetics
  Surveys protein post-translational modifications and DNA/RNA processing, including mechanistic enzymology of protein and DNA modifications, signal transduction induced by the modifications, and related practical applications.
• GRS CH 627: RNA Structure and Function
  Chemical and structural biology of natural RNA molecules, including ribosomal RNA, catalytic RNA (ribozymes), siRNA (small interfering RNA), microRNA, long non-coding RNA, riboswitches, and CRISPR.

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