BIMS4371 - General and Molecular Virology

BIMS 4371 General and Molecular Virology (3 semester credit hours) What is a virus? What is the basis of virus/host specificity? How do viruses replicate? Will cover virus structure, classification, gene expression, and replication. Will consider selected groups of viruses from each of the three domains of life and discuss in detail virus replication from attachment to release of progeny virions (and/or alternative fates such as lysogeny, abortive infections, and others). Designed to expand from a firm grasp of the basics of Central Dogma: transcription, translation, replication, as well as a background in bacteriology and eukaryotic cell biology. BIOL 3402 is recommended but not required. Prerequisites: BIOL 2311 and BIOL 2312. (Same as BIOL 4371) (3-0) Y