BIOMS 6250 - Applied Immunology

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading (no audit).

Prerequisite: BIOMS 4150 or BIOMS 6150 or permission of instructor. Enrollment limited to: graduate students. Recommended for students pursuing careers in medicine, biomedical research, biotechnology and public health, or anyone curious about the immune system and their health. Co-meets with BIOMS 4250.

E. Rhoades.

Applied Immunology builds on knowledge of basic immunology. It picks up where BIOMS 4150/BIOMS 6150 left off and covers diseases due to an unbalanced immune system. Topics include tolerance, homeostasis and barrier immunology, allergy, autoimmunity, transplantation, AIDS, and tumor immunology. The course will demonstrate that the field of “applied” immunology is dynamic and continually evolving by demonstrating how new technologies and research findings are “applied” toward designing immune-based therapies. Students will learn how commonly research methods measure immune responses.

Outcome 1: Describe how the immune system is regulated to balance defense with tissue function.

Outcome 2: Recount how allergy, autoimmunity, and AIDS are caused by different aberrant immune responses.

Outcome 3: Explain how the immune system recognizes & responds to non-infectious threats such as cancers and tissue transplants.

Outcome 4: Illustrate how commonly used immunology research methods measure immune responses.

Outcome 5: Practice health literacy on the topic of immune-based therapies.

Outcome 6: Interpret and explain experimental immunology data.

Outcome 7: Explain how an immune-based therapy works and propose how to improve it.