2022-23 Biology Course Offerings
*FYS (First-Year Seminar); SOPH (Sophomore Seminar); LAB (Lab or Field Trip Course); WRIT (designated-course offering considered to fulfill the writing requirement); CONF (discussion group in addition to primary course section); DIV (content addresses issues of diversity including race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, inequality, and other related areas of inquiry as relevant to topics and careers in the biological sciences); COEX (engages students in addressing a research question or knowledge gap of interest to scholarly communities).
For courses offered in alternate years, view course summaries from previous academic years at Related Files, below.
SEM |
BANNER NUMBER | COURSE TITLE |
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR | *FYS/SOPH SEM/LAB/ WRIT/CONF/DIV/COEX |
ONLINE/HYBRID/REMOTE ACCESSABLE |
| 1 | BIOL XLIST: AFRI 1920 | Health Inequality in Historical Perspective | Braun, Lundy | DIV/SOPH/WRIT | |
| 1 | BIOL XLIST: CLPS 1195 | Life Under Water in the Anthropocene | Colwill, Ruth | COEX/LAB/WRIT | |
| 1 | BIOL XLIST: NEUR 1530 | Communication In the Brain: What We Know and How We Know It | Stein, John | ||
| 1 | 0030 | Principles of Nutrition | Flynn, Mary | Online | |
| 1 | 0100 | Living Biology at Brown & Beyond | Monteiro, Kristina |
FYS/DIV/LAB | |
| 1 | 0140T | Communicating Science Through Visual Media | Stein, John | LAB | |
| 1 | 0170-S01 | Biotechnology in Medicine | Achilli, Toni Marie |
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| 1 | 0170-S02 | Biotechnology in Medicine | Achilli, Toni Marie | Hybrid | |
| 1 | 0190P | Pride & Prejudice in the Development of Scientific Theories | Helfand, Stephen | FYS | |
| 1 | 0190R |
Foundations: Phage Hunters, Part 1 |
Taylor, Sarah |
COEX/FYS/LAB | |
| 1 | 0210 | Diversity of Life | Kellner, James | DIV | |
| 1 | 0380 | The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease | Dillon, Kelsey Witt | CONF | |
| 1 | 0410 | Invertebrate Zoology | Ewanchuk, Patrick | LAB/DIV | |
| 1 | 0470-S01 | Genetics | Johnson, Mark |
LAB | |
| 1 | 0470-S02 | Genetics | Johnson, Mark | LAB | Hybrid |
| 1 | 0480-S01 | Evolutionary Biology | Rand, David | CONF/DIV | Remote Accessable |
| 1 | 0480-S02 | Evolutionary Biology | Rand, David | CONF/DIV | Hybrid |
| 1 | 0530 | Principles of Immunology | Dugan, Aisling |
CONF | |
| 1 | 0800-S01 | Principles of Physiology | Stein, John |
LAB | |
| 1 | 0800-S02 | Principles of Physiology | Stein, John | LAB | Hybrid |
| 1 | 0940A | Viral Epidemics |
Atwood, Walter | SOPH/WRIT | |
| 1 | 0940D | Rhode Island Flora: Understanding and Documenting Local Plant Diversity | Kartzinel, Rebecca | SOPH | |
| 1 | 0960 | Independent Study in Science Writing | Faculty Advisors | ||
| 1 | 1050,2050 | Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell (Grad students register for 2050) | Gerbi, Susan |
CONF | |
| 1 | 1070 | Biotechnology and Global Health | Schell, Jacquelyn | ||
| 1 | 1140 | Tissue Engineering | Hoffman-Kim, Diane |
DIV | |
| 1 | 1260-S01, 2260 | Physiological Pharmacology (Grad students register for 2260) |
Marshall, John | ||
| 1 | 1260-S02 | Physiological Pharmacology | Marshall, John | Online | |
| 1 | 1270,2270 | Advanced Biochemistry (Grad students register for 2270) | Lisi, George |
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| 1 | 1290 | Cancer Biology | Zhitkovich, Anatoly |
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| 1 | 1300,2300 | Biomolecular Interactions (Grad students register for 2300) | Fawzi, Nicolas | WRIT |
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| 1 | 1470 | Conservation Biology | Sax, Dov | ||
| 1 | 1515,2015 | Conservation in Genomics Age (Grad students register for 2015) | Kartzinel, Tyler | COEX/LAB/WRIT (1515 ONLY) |
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| 1 | 1520 | Innate Immunity | Brossay, Laurent | ||
| 1 | 1560,2560 | Virology (Grad students register for 2560) |
Lee, Sanghyun | ||
| 1 | 1565 | Survey of Biomedical Informatics | Sarkar, Neil |
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| 1 | 1575,2075 | Evaluation of Health Information Systems (Grad students register for 2075) |
Fraser, Hamish | WRIT (1575 ONLY) |
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| 1 | 1650 | Structure of the Nervous System | Berson, David | LAB | |
| 1 | 1800 | Animal Locomotion | Swartz, Sharon | WRIT | |
| 1 | 1945 | Outbreaks and Infections: Harnessing History and Preventing Future Epidemics | Dugan, Aisling | ||
| 1 | 1950 | Directed Research/Independent Study - See Research | Faculty Advisors | LAB | |
| 1 | 1970A | Stem Cell Biology | Freiman, Richard | |
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| 1 | 2010A | Introduction to Molecular Research in the Life Sciences | Mowry, Kimberly |
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| 1 | 2030 | Foundations for Advanced Study in the Life Sciences | DeLong, Alison | ||
| 1 | 2089 | Biotechnology IP | Holmander, Daniel |
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| 1 | 2110 | Drug and Gene Delivery | Mathiowitz, Edith | ||
| 1 | 2150-S01 | Scientific Communication | Bender, Judith |
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| 1 | 2150-S02 | Scientific Communication | Ramachandran, Sohini | ||
| 1 | 2180 | Experiential Learning Industry (ELI) | Schell, Jacquelyn | |
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| 1 | 2020 | Biotechnology Science & Industry |
Huang, Eric | ||
| 1 | 2230 | Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Seminar | Darling, Eric |
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| 1 | 2250 | Survey of Modern Therapeutics | Horrigan, Diana | ||
| 1 | 2340 |
Neurogenetics and Disease |
Reenan, Robert | ||
| 1 | 2430-S01 | Topics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Brainerd, Elizabeth | ||
| 1 | 2430-S02 | Topics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Huerta-Sanchez, Emilia | ||
| 1 | 2430-S03 | Topics in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Ramachandran, Sohini | ||
| Winter Session | 0940G | Antibiotic Drug Discovery: Identifying Novel Soil Microbes to Combat Antibiotic Resistance | Achilli, Toni-Marie | COEX/LAB | Hybrid |
| Winter Session | 1000 | Quality Improvement Science and Application | Monteiro, Kristina | Online | |
| Winter Session | 1445 | Medicine in Austere Settings | Martin, Kyle Denison | ||
| Winter Session | 1455 | Planetary Health: Global Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Disease | Smith, Katherine | Online | |
| Winter Session | 1980 | HIV/AIDS in Diverse Settings: Focus on Israel | Kantor, Rami | WRIT | |
| 2 |
BIOL XLIST: ENVS 0490 |
Environmental Science in a Changing World | Kartzinel, Tyler | ||
| 2 | 0080 | Biotechnology Management | Bready, Barrett | Remote Accessable | |
| 2 | 0150D | Techniques in Regenerative Medicine: Cells, Scaffolds, and Staining | Achilli, Toni-Marie | FYS/LAB | |
| 2 | 0160 | Plants, Food, and People | Heywood, Peter | ||
| 2 | 0190S | Foundations: Phage Hunters, Part II |
Zhou, Yang | COEX/FYS/LAB | |
| 2 | 0190U | The Lives of Plants | Heywood, Peter | FYS/WRIT | |
| 2 | 0200 | The Foundations of Living Systems | Stein, John |
LAB/DIV | |
| 2 | 0280 | Biochemistry | Deaconescu, Alexandra | CONF | |
| 2 | 0285-S01, S02 |
Inquiry in Biochemistry: From Gene to Protein Function |
Sobieraj, Andrea | COEX/WRIT/CONF/LAB | |
| 2 | 0420 |
Principles of Ecology |
Witman, Jon | CONF | |
| 2 | 0430 | Evolution of Plant Diversity | Kartzinel, Rebecca | LAB | |
| 2 | 0440 | Inquiry in Plant Biology | DeLong, Alison | LAB | |
| 2 | 0495 |
Statistical Analysis of Biological Data |
Ramachandran, Sohini | CONF | |
| 2 | 0500 |
Cell and Molecular Biology |
Valdez, Gregorio | ||
| 2 | 0510 |
Introductory Microbiology |
Belenky, Peter |
CONF/LAB | |
| 2 | 0860 | Diet and Chronic Disease | Flynn, Mary | ||
| 2 | 0946 | Research Design & Quantitative Methods for the Health Sciences | Monteiro, Kristina | ||
| 2 | 0960 |
Independent Study in Science Writing |
Faculty Advisors |
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| 2 | 1040,2040 | Ultrastructure/Bioimaging (Grad students register for 2040) | Williams, Geoffrey | LAB | |
| 2 | 1100 |
Cell Physiology and Biophysics |
Horrigan, Diana |
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| 2 | 1120 | Biomaterials | Dingle, Yu-Ting | ||
| 2 | 1150 | Stem Cell Engineering | Darling, Eric | LAB | |
| 2 | 1160 | Principles of Exercise Physiology | Sobieraj, Andrea | DIV | |
| 2 | 1222A,2222B | Current Topics in Functional Genomics (Grad students register for 2222B) | Fairbrother, William | ||
| 2 | 1250 | Host-microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease | Belenky, Peter | ||
| 2 | 1310,2310 | Developmental Biology | Wharton, Kristi | ||
| 2 | 1330 | Biology of Reproduction | Wessel, Gary | DIV | |
| 2 | 1435 | Computational Methods for Studying Demographic History with Molecular Data | Peede, David | ||
| 2 | 1530 | Emergency Medical Systems: An Anatomy of Critical Performance | Becker, Bruce |
CONF | |
| 2 | 1540,2540 | Molecular Genetics (Grad students register for 2540) | Larschan, Erica | ||
| 2 | 1545,2545 | Human Genetics and Genomics (Grad students register for 2545) | Morrow, Eric | ||
| 2 | 1550 | Parasitism: Biology and Disease | de Graffenried, Christopher | CONF | |
| 2 | 1555 | Methods in Informatics and Data Science for Health | Chen, Elizabeth | COEX | |
| 2 | 1600 | Development of Vaccines to Infectious Diseases | Vaishnava, Shipra |
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| 2 | BIOL 1610/ NEUR 1600 | Experimental Neurobiology | Stein, John | LAB/WRIT | |
| 2 | 1810 | 21st Century Applications in Cell and Molecular Biology | Dawson, Michelle | WRIT | |
| 2 | 1820 | Environmental Health & Disease | Plavicki, Jessica | ||
| 2 | 1865,2865 | Toxicology (Grad students register for 2865) | Spade, Daniel | ||
| 2 | 1885 | Human Anatomy and Biomechanics | Swartz, Shannon |
LAB | |
| 2 | 1960 | Directed Research/Independent Study - See Research | Faculty Advisors | ||
| 2 | 2010B | Introduction to Data Science in Molecular Biology | Neretti, Nicola | ||
| 2 | 2018 |
Management Strategies in Biotechnology |
Jong, Yong | ||
| 2 | 2135 | Pharmacokinetics and Drug Design | Christian, Donald | ||
| 2 | 2145 |
Molecular Targets of Drug Discovery |
Horrigan, Diana | |
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| 2 | 2167 |
In Vitro Models for Disease |
Schell, Jacquelyn |
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| 2 | 2170 | Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Horrigan, Diana | ||
| 2 | 2180 |
Experiential Learning Industry (ELI) |
Schell, Jacquelyn | ||
| 2 | 2240 |
Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Seminar |
Morgan, Jeffrey | ||
| 2 | 2350 |
The Biology of Aging |
Sedivy, John | DIV | |
| 2 | 2528 |
Innovation and Commercialization in Medical Devices, Diagnostics, and Wearables |
Analoui, Mostafa | |
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