GMS 6035: Molecular Virology II - RNA Viruses


Catalog description:  Molecular biology and genetics of virology, focusing on the molecular biology of RNA viruses.

Pre-requisites:  Consent of instructor

Expanded description and explanation:  This 5 week course will concentrate on the mechanisms that (-) strand RNA viruses and retroviruses employ to reproduce their genetic information. The teaching format will involve lectures and paper discussions.

This course represents the second course in a 3-course sequence (GMS 6034, GMS 6035 and GMS 6036) dealing with the molecular biology and genetics of viruses, where the emphasis in this course is on the molecular mechanisms of replication of RNA viruses.  The first course focuses on the genetics of viruses and (+) strand RNA viruses and the third course focuses on DNA viruses.

1.    (-) Strand RNA viruses I
2.    (-) Strand RNA viruses II
3.    (-) Strand RNA viruses III
4.    (-) Strand RNA viruses IV
5.    (-) Strand RNA viruses V
6.    (-) Strand RNA viruses VI
7.    (-) Strand RNA viruses VII
8.    Retroviruses I
9.    Retroviruses II
10.  Retroviruses III
11.  HIV I
12.  HIV II
13.  HIV III
14.  HIV IV
15.  Exam


Evaluation of student performance:  One final examination (80%), and oral discussions (20%).

Faculty: Dr. Sue Moyer will be the course Director. She will be assisted in the presentation of material to the students by various Graduate Faculty of the College of Medicine.

Assigned Reading: The textbook for this course will be "Fundamental Virology", Fourth Edition, Knipe, D.M., and Howley, P.M. (Eds), (2001) Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA. Additional readings will be assigned from the research literature.

10-29-02