2019-20 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).
For courses offered in alternate years, view course summaries from previous academic years at Related Files, below.
What is a CURE course?
SEM |
BANNER NUMBER | COURSE TITLE |
PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR | *FYS/SOPH SEM/LAB/ WRIT/CONF/DIV/CURE |
| 1 | 0030 | Principles of Nutrition | Flynn, Mary | |
| 1 | 0100 | Living Biology at Brown & Beyond | Smith, Katherine | FYS/DIV/WRIT |
| 1 | 0150A | Techniques and Analyses Using DNA-Based Biotechnology | Hall, Jody | FYS/LAB |
| 1 | 0170 | Biotechnology in Medicine | Achilli, Toni Marie |
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| 1 | 0190E | Botanical Roots of Modern Medicine | Jackson, Fred | LAB |
| 1 | 0190F | Foundations: Darwinian Medicine | Tatar, Marc | FYS/DIV |
| 1 | 0190P | Pride & Prejudice in the Development of Scientific Theories | Helfand, Stephen | FYS |
| 1 | 0190R | Foundations: Phage Hunters, Part I | Zhou, Yang/Taylor, Sarah |
FYS/LAB |
| 1 | 0190U |
The Lives of Plants |
Heywood, Peter | FYS/WRIT |
| 1 | 0210 | Diversity of Life | Kellner, James | DIV |
| 1 | 0380 | The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease | Weinreich, Daniel | |
| 1 | 0410 | Invertebrate Zoology | Ewanchuk, Patrick | LAB/DIV |
| 1 | 0470 | Genetics | Johnson, Mark/Larschan, Erica |
LAB |
| 1 | 0480 | Evolutionary Biology | Rand, David | CONF/DIV |
| 1 | 0530 | Principles of Immunology | Bungiro, Richard | |
| 1 | 0800 | Principles of Physiology | Stein, John | LAB |
| 1 | 0940A | Viral Epidemics |
Atwood, Walter | SOPH/WRIT |
| 1 | 0940B | Life in a Shell |
Jackson, Donald/Taylor, Sarah |
SOPH |
| 1 | 0945 | Toolbox for Scientific Research | Raynes, Yevgeniy/Weinreich, Daniel | SOPH |
| 1 | 0960 | Independent Study in Science Writing | Faculty Advisors | |
| 1 | 1050,2050 | Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell (Grad students register for 2050) | Miller, Kenneth/Gerbi, Susan | CONF |
| 1 | 1070 | Biotechnology and Global Health | Schell, Jacquelyn | |
| 1 | 1110 | Signal Transduction | Oancea, Elena | |
| 1 | 1140 | Tissue Engineering | Hoffman-Kim, Diane |
DIV |
| 1 | 1160 | Principles of Exercise Physiology | Hai, Chi-Ming | DIV |
| 1 | 1270,2270 | Advanced Biochemistry (Grad students register for 2270) | Salomon, Arthur/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 |
| 1 | 1420 | Experimental Design in Ecology | Witman, Jon | |
| 1 | 1430 | Population Biology | Weinreich, Daniel | |
| 1 | 1465 | Human Population Genomics | Huerta-Sanchez, Emila | WRIT |
| 1 | 1470 | Conservation Biology | Sax, Dov | |
| 1 | 1520 | Innate Immunity | Brossay, Laurent/Bungiro, Richard |
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| 1 | 1560,2560 | Virology (Grad students register for 2560) |
Jamieson, Amanda | |
| 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 | |
| 1 | 1950 | Directed Research/Independent Study - See Research | Faculty Advisors | LAB |
| 1 | 1970A | Stem Cell Biology | Freiman, Richard/Webb, Ashley |
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| 1 | 2000A | Current Topics in MCDB - RNA Regulation: Beyond the Central Dogma | Mowry, Kimberly/Gerbi, Susan | |
| 1 | 2020 | Biotechnology Science and Industry | Scott, Jeffrey | |
| 1 | 2030 | Foundations for Advanced Study in the Life Sciences | DeLong, Alison/Wessel, Gary/Sedivy, John/Lapierre, Louis |
CONF |
| 1 | 2089 | Biotechnology IP | Morgan, Jeffrey/Holmander, Daniel |
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| 1 | 2150 | Scientific Communication | Bender, Judith/Ramachandran, Sohini |
CONF |
| 1 | 2170 | Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Horrigan, Diana/Zimmerman, Anita/Bowen, Wayne |
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| 1 | 2180 | Experiential Learning Industry (ELI) | Morgan, Jeffrey | |
| 1 | 2190 | MPP Professional Development Seminar | Horrigan, Diana | |
| 1 | 2230 | Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Seminar | Darling, Eric/Hoffman-Kim, Diane |
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| 1 | 2245 | Blood Substitutes: Principles and Therapeutics Development | Kim, Hae Won | |
| 1 | 2430 |
Topics in EEB: |
Rand, David/Kartzinel, Tyler |
DIV |
| 1 | 2860 | Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease | Bartnikas, Thomas | DIV |
| 1 | BIOL XLIST: AFRI 1920 | Health Inequality in Historical Perspective | Braun, Lundy | DIV/SOPH/WRIT |
| 2 | 0040 | Nutrition for Fitness and Physical Activity | Flynn, Mary | |
| 2 | 0080 | Biotechnology Management | Bready, Barrett | |
| 2 | 0150D | Techniques in Regenerative Medicine: Cells, Scaffolds, and Staining | Achilli, Toni-Marie | FYS/LAB |
| 2 | 0160 | Plants, Food, and People | Heywood, Peter | |
| 2 | 0180 | Biology of AIDS | Shank, Peter | |
| 2 | 0190S | Foundations: Phage Hunters, Part II | Taylor, Sarah | FYS/LAB |
| 2 | 0200 | The Foundation of Living Systems | Miller, Kenneth/Stein, John |
LAB/DIV |
| 2 | 0280 | Biochemistry |
Salomon, Arthur/Deaconescu, Alexandra/Lapierre, Louis | CONF |
| 2 | 0285 | Inquiry in Biochemistry: From Gene to Protein Function |
Cohen, Kristina | CURE/LAB |
| 2 | 0400 | Biological Design |
Swartz, Sharon |
WRIT |
| 2 | 0420 | Principles of Ecology | Witman, Jon | CONF |
| 2 | 0430 | Evolution of Plant Diversity | Jackson, Fred/Kartzinel, Rebecca |
LAB |
| 2 | 0440 | Inquiry in Plant Biology: Analysis of Plant Growth, Reproduction, and Adaptive Responses | DeLong, Alison/Johnson, Mark | LAB |
| 2 | 0495 | Statistical Analysis of Biological Data | Ramachandran, Sohini |
CONF |
| 2 | 0500 | Cell and Molecular Biology | Heywood, Peter/Freiman, Richard |
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| 2 | 0510 | Introductory Microbiology | Bennett, Richard/Bungiro, Richard |
LAB |
| 2 | 0800 | Principles of Physiology | Hai, Chi-Ming | LAB |
| 2 | 0810 | Applied Cell and Molecular Biology | Dawson, Michelle | |
| 2 | 0940E | Precision Medicine or Privileged Medicine? Addressing Disparities in Biomedical Research | Campbell, Robert | SOPH/DIV |
| 2 | 0960 | Independent Study in Science Writing | Faculty Advisors | |
| 2 | 1040,2040 | Ultrastructure/Bioimaging (Grad students register for 2040) |
Williams, Geoffrey | LAB |
| 2 | 1100 | Cell Physiology and Biophysics | Zimmerman, Anita/ Horrigan, Diana | |
| 2 | 1120 | Biomaterials | Scott, Jeffrey |
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| 2 | 1150 | Stem Cell Engineering | Darling, Eric | LAB |
| 2 | 1222A,2222B | Current Topics in Functional Genomics (Grad students register for 2222B) | Fairbrother, William | |
| 2 | 1250 | Host-microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease | Vaishnava, Shipra |
DIV |
| 2 | 1310, 2310 | Developmental Biology (Grad students register for 2310) | Wharton, Kristi | LAB |
| 2 | 1330 | Biology of Reproduction | Wessel, Gary | DIV |
| 2 | 1450 | Community Ecology |
Kellner, James |
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| 2 | 1495 | 500 Million Years of Land Plants | TBD | |
| 2 | 1540,2540 | Molecular Genetics (Grad students register for 2540) | Bender, Judith/Larschan, Erica | |
| 2 | 1545,2545 | Human Genetics and Genomics (Grad students register for 2545) | Morrow, Eric | |
| 2 | 1550 | Biology of Emerging Microbial Diseases | Bungiro, Richard |
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| 2 | 1555 | Methods in Biomedical Informatics | Sarker, Neil/Chen, Elizabeth |
CURE |
| 2 | 1595,2595 | Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine (Grad students register for 2595) |
Eickhoff, Carsten | |
| 2 | 1600 | Development of Vaccines to Infectious Diseases | Bungiro, Richard/Vaishnava, Shipra |
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| 2 | 1820 | Environmental Health and Disease |
Plavicki, Jessica |
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| 2 | 1865,2865 | Toxicology (Grad students register for 2865) |
Spade, Daniel/Boekelheide, Kim |
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| 2 | 1880 | Comparative Biology of the Vertebrates | Evans, Kory | LAB |
| 2 | 1960 | Directed Research/Independent Study - See Research | Faculty Advisors | |
| 2 | 2010 | Quantitative Approaches to Biology | Neretti, Nicola | |
| 2 | 2018 | Management Strategies in Biotechnology | Jong, Yong | |
| 2 | 2145 | Molecular Targets of Drug Discovery | Horrigan, Diana |
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| 2 | 2156 | Special Topics in Biotechnology Writing | Mathiowitz, Edith/Schell, Jacquelyn |
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| 2 | 2167 | In Vitro Models for Disease | Schell, Jacquelyn | |
| 2 | 2180 | Experiential Learning Industry (ELI) | Morgan, Jeffrey | |
| 2 | 2240 | Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Seminar | Morgan, Jeffrey/Mathiowitz, Edith |
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| 2 | 2350 | The Biology of Aging | Sedivy, John/Helfand, Stephen | DIV |
| 2 | 2440 |
Topics in EEB: |
Rand, David | DIV |
| 2 | 2528 | Innovation and Commercialization in Medical Devices, Diagnostics, and Wearables | Analoui, Mostafa | |
| 2 | 2640A | Topics in Microbiology and Immunology: Viral Immunology | Biron, Christine |
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| 2 | BIOL XLIST: AFRI 1930 | Race, Difference, and Biomedical Research: Historical Considerations | Braun, Lundy | DIV/WRIT |