BSR Fall Courses
BSR0901 Medical School 1st Year - Fall
Credits: 5 Offered: Fall
All First Year MD/PhD students should register for this course
BSR0903 Medical School 2nd Year - Fall
Credits: 5 Offered: Fall
All Second Year MD/PhD students should register for this course
BSR0907 Introduction to Nanomedicine
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This course covers the journey from nanotherapeutic design to clinical approval. We will focus on nanomaterial synthesis and characterization, techniquest to monitor their in vivo behavior and efficacy, the design of therapeutic studies, and the translation from small to large animals and humans. We will discuss the basic principles of the application of nanomedicine, exemplified by state-of-the art technologies and recent research studies. The course will also include a tour of the Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Institute's Nanomedicine Laboratory and Imaging facilities.
BSR0908 Introduction to AI/Deep Learning in Biomedical Research and the Clinic
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) become increasingly applied in biomedical sciences, it is critical that trainees, researchers, and clinicians are made aware of both technical and ethical issues related to AI. In this course we will start with review of the terminology in AI-based tools and key networks being used in medical applications, such as medical imaging, regression analysis and time prediction. We will understand key works published in the space, be able to critically assess their contribution, as well as their clinical value. A key factor in making AI successful is the correct definition and use of Data. We will review how data must be defined, extracted, and structured for the effective application of AI & ML. Making the data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR), is a key factor in building strong network models that can be used in the clinic. Additional attention will be given to bias and ethical issues that need to be addressed in the development of the models and in their clinical testing. Overall, we will cover the variety of challenges that must be overcome for AI to reach its full potential.
BSR1006 Laboratory Rotation - Fall
Credits: 4 Offered: Fall
Laboratory rotations are an important part of the first year of the Graduate Program at Mount Sinai. They give students the opportunity to experience different research projects, different laboratory and mentoring styles, and allow the faculty to assess the interests and aptitude of the students. All PhD and MD/PhD students will complete laboratory rotations (two are recommended) before declaring a research preceptor and a Multidisciplinary Training Area. PhD Students must complete their lab rotation agreements and monthly check-in forms to record their rotation status and in order to pass this course.
BSR1012 Biomedical Science - Fall
Credits: 6 Offered: Fall
Biomedical Science - Fall is part 1 of a year long six unit course that surveys a broad and comprehensive study of basic Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology. The topics covered prepare students for both a career in Biomedical Research and for the Advanced studies within the CAB, DSCB, GGS, IMM, and MIC MTAs. Biomedical Science is a required course for all first year students that intend to be members of these MTAs. The course is structured as a series of lectures; grade assessment is based on a mixture of in-class and take home quizzes as well as one formal examination per unit
BSR1017 Biomedical Science for MDPhD - Fall
Credits: 8 Offered: Fall
Biomedical Science - Fall for MDPhD students. 1st year MD/PhD students should register for this course.
BSR1021 Responsible Conduct of Research
Credits: 0.5 Offered: Fall
This course is required for all first-year graduate students, following NIH mandates. Specific topics for the eight 1 hour sessions: (i) Research Misconduct (ii) Experimental design and data management practices (iii) Mentor and Trainee Responsibilities; Collaborative Research (iv) Conflicts of Interest; Intellectual property (v) The Protection of Human Subjects (vi) The Welfare of Laboratory Animals (vii) Publication, authorship, and peer review (viii) Peer Review, the Grant Process, and Fiduciary Responsibility. Each Session is ~45 minute lecture with 15 minutes of discussion.
BSR1023 Responsible Conduct of Research Refresher
Credits: 0.5 Offered: Fall
This course is required for all first-year graduate students, following NIH mandates. Specific topics for the eight 1 hour sessions: (i) Research Misconduct (ii) Experimental design and data management practices (iii) Mentor and Trainee Responsibilities; Collaborative Research (iv) Conflicts of Interest; Intellectual property (v) The Protection of Human Subjects (vi) The Welfare of Laboratory Animals (vii) Publication, authorship, and peer review (viii) Peer Review, the Grant Process, and Fiduciary Responsibility. Each Session is ~45 minute lecture with 15 minutes of discussion.
BSR1027 MSTP TREK Academy
Credits: 4 Offered: Fall
This course is a specialized orientation and development program designed for MD-PhD students embarking on training in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. This academy aims to equip students with a comprehensive toolkit for navigating the multifaceted challenges inherent in the dual-degree pathway. Over four weeks, participants are immersed in a curriculum that intertwines foundational orientation sessions with deep dives into resilience building, leadership skills, and cultivating a robust professional identity.
BSR1501 Fundamentals of Immunology
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
The Immunology Core III was developed to provide the students with an in-depth study of the fundamental concepts in Immunology. This is a 45-hour course that it is intended to introduce students to the organization of the immune system and function of the immune response as it relates to health and disease. The different topics and sections will be presented and discussed by faculty members who have expertise in the subject matter. The grades will be based on in-class quizzes and midterm and final exams as well as on class participation. The aim of the course is that students will develop a solid understanding of immunological concepts, develop the skills to help them appreciate immunological research so that they will be prepared to undertake more advanced studies and be able to carry out original research in this field. Reading assignments will be based on Janeway’s Immunobiology textbook (8th edition) and supplementary reading materials suggested by the lecturers. Biomedical Science I and II courses are prerequisites for this course.
BSR1705 Neuro Core 2: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
The Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience course will provide students with a rigorous foundation in the molecules, cells, and circuits upon which nervous system function is based, how different neural processes are engaged to drive different functions and behaviors, and the nature of brain disorders that affect molecules, cells, and circuits. The course is divided into major relevant themes, each concluding with a theme-based discussion and group presentation focused on critical evaluations of relevant research articles.
BSR1706 Neuro Core 1: Systems Neuroscience
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
This course covers the functional neuroanatomy of the major sensory and motor systems of the brain, and includes lectures on neurocytology, generation of resting membrane potential, generation and propagation of action potentials, principles of synaptic neurontransmission and neural circuit plasticity. The course format includes didactic lectures and student presentations.
BSR2301 Embryos Genes and Development
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
This course will provide a thorough introduction to invertebrate and vertebrate development with an emphasis on cellular, genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the generation of diverse cell and tissue types. The course will focus on different model systems, primarily the development of fruit flies, nematodes, Xenopus, zebrafish, and mice, with the goal of building an understanding of fundamental embryological processes, including induction, fate determination, and pattern formation. Knowledge of these processes will also provide a robust foundation for in vitro stem cell differentiation paradigms. Discussion of current technologies and experimental approaches (e.g., transgenic animals, genetics, mosaic analysis, homologous recombination, somatic cell genetics, and classical embryonic manipulations) will be incorporated. Selected topics include: developmental genetics of regulatory hierarchies, lateral inhibition, regeneration and development, cell lineage analysis, X-chromosome inactivation, imprinting, and sex determination. Following introductory lectures, the course will focus on primary literature detailing the current state of the field using journal club presentations (by students). The final exam will consist of grant proposals by the students, to be reviewed by other students in a mock study section.
BSR2402 Genetic and Genomic Approaches to Human Variation and Disease
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
This course will span state of the art genomic approaches for studying human disease. It will include in depth lectures on genomic technologies accompanied by practicals in transcriptomic analysis (RNA-sequencing, scRNA seq, spatial transcriptomics); DNA analysis (exome and whole genome sequencing and interpretation of variants, copy number analyses); Epigenetic, multi-omic and pathway analyses; Haplotypes, and linkage disequilibrium; Human evolutionary trees and signatures of selection; Statistical approaches to analyzing complex traits including quantitative traits; Mendelian randomization and eQTLs; microbiomics. There will also be two day workshops on the UCSC genome browser and how to access public databases such as UK biobank and BioMe.
BSR2700 Neuropharmacology
Credits: 1.5 Offered: Fall
This course focuses on the major neurotransmitter-receptor systems in the brain and the detailed mechanistic underpinnings by which psychotropic drugs (including antipsychotics, antidepressants, anxiolytics, anticonvulsants, drugs of abuse, and others) affect the nervous system. It is designed for students who already have basic knowledge of neuroscience. Each class will involve a student-led discussion of a recent research paper, which illustrates important advanced principles of neuropharmacology and state-of-the-art methods used in the field. Course offered every 2 years.
BSR2703 Drug Discovery: Successful vs Usual
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
The purpose of this course is to develop skills to enhance discovery of medically useful drugs.The course uses a case-study approach describing the discovery of the most valuable drugs currently in use, with an emphasis on phenotypic screening, combined with exposure to cuttingedge bioinformatics tools. Some of the drugs to be addressed are penicillin, insulin, the small pox vaccine, ether, morphine, aspirin, salvarsan, thorazine/Haldol, norethindrone, and digoxin. Of particular interest will be assessment of what is, or more generally what is not, known about mechanisms by which drugs exert their therapeutic effects, and how the development of drugs have elucidated mechanisms of disease. Course is offered every 2 years.
BSR2707 Techniques and Approaches in Neuroscience
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
With the accelerated development of new technologies and approaches, research at the cutting-edge of neuroscience is fast-evolving. The purpose of this course is to introduce students to current techniques and methodologies used in research labs in the Neuroscience department in order to prepare them for successful rotations in diverse lab settings. Topics covered will include using electrophysiology, viral approaches for cell type-specific manipulations, calcium-based imaging and analysis, modeling ‘disease-in-a-dish’ using stem cells, TRAP and single-nuclei sequencing, and human neuroimaging and large scale data analysis. The course features didactic, discussion, and written components that will facilitate a deep conceptual understanding to enable practical application of popular approaches.
BSR2709 Philosophy in Science
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This course will discuss fundamental philosophical assumptions and constructs that are relevant for scientific inquiry, such as - what makes a theory good; what is the construct being studies; what is the purpose of a phenomenon. This course is designed for graduate-level students in the biomedical and neural sciences who are developing foundational thinking for their research interests.
BSR2931 Commercialization of Biomedical Innovation: Entrepreneurship & Business
Credits: 2 Offered: Fall
This course enables participants to learn about entrepreneurship and business fundamentals for the process of commercializing biomedical innovation, primarily through the "lean launchpad" method (aka, I-Corp method). Students engage in ideation sessions and then choose to join projects and work in small teams.
From there, the course provides training in relevant business and organizational fundamentals including start-up teams, legal issues, intellectual property strategy, financing, competitive analysis, market intelligence, and marketing or networking towards commercialization of biomedical innovation. Students will conduct key elements of the I-Corp Business Canvas/Lean Launchpad, particularly customer validation, for the project they have joined/led. Student will also get the opportunity to learn how technologies and startups are assessed using some fundamental due diligence methodologies.
The course leverages the impressive expertise in biomedical commercialization found within the Mount Sinai faculty, Mount Sinai Innovation Partners (MSIP), and external advisors to support the course via classroom lectures and extra office hour sessions to support project work. Additionally, we take advantage of Mount Sinai's and NYC's impressive biomedical ecosystem with visits from leading entrepreneurs.
This course may be taken in sequence with the course on Intellectual Property (BSR 2930: Protecting Your Innovation) or just as one course experience (no Pre-requisites are required).
BSR3001 Medical School Application Process-II
Credits: 0 Offered: Fall
This is a second of two semester courses for those Master's degree students who are planning to attend medical school following completion of their Master's degree. The course continues to provide a detailed educational curriculum, strategic planning and advising about the medical school application process. It consists of information sessions, workshops, and personalized advising. This semester's key topics include detailed writing and review of each components of primary application, personal statement, secondary applications, and mock interviews. Increased individualized support is offered for targeted school selection, personal statement writing, and interview preparations.
Please note, this is uncredited and does NOT appear on your transcript.
BSR3101 Computer-Aided Drug Design
Credits: 1.5 Offered: Fall
Please note - Course is offered every other year. Attendance in this course is mandatory.
COMPUTER-AIDED DRUG DESIGN (CADD) is a hands-on course that provides an introduction to computer-aided drug design/discovery technology, including both ligand-based and structure-based rational drug design strategies. Both theoretical and practical aspects of chemoinformatics, virtual screening, and in silico design approaches are presented with the goal of teaching students how to accelerate the discovery of novel molecules with improved therapeutic profiles using modern technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning tools. To this end, lectures will be integrated with hands-on sessions and at least one 'serious game' (a.k.a. simulation of a real-world structure-based drug discovery problem).
This course is not only designed to provide students with a solid foundation in computational structural biology, but also to help them become proficient in the use of modern drug discovery solutions available at Mount Sinai (e.g., the Schrödinger's Small Molecule Drug Discovery Suite). Students will also acquire an understanding of how to protect their own intellectual property on discoveries in preclinical stages and how to eventually move these discoveries to commercialization.
Course grade will be a letter grade: Grading will be based on participation (40%) and the successful execution of two "serious games" (30% each).
Prerequisite: Student's basic python skills or prior exposure to another relevant programming language as demonstrated on their undergraduate/graduate academic transcript. In the absence of prior programming experience, successful completion of BMI1007 (Computer Systems: Introduction to Scientific Programming in Python) will be required. The Course Directors will make the final decision as to whether a student's prior experience in programming is sufficient for the course.
BSR3102 Principles of Scientific Proposals
Credits: 0.5 Offered: Fall
This semesterly-offered course will aim to inform and instruct students on the process of applying for a predoctoral fellowship. Students will learn the different funding mechanisms available to them for a fellowship and will ultimately prepare several components of the NRSA application with the intent of submission. The subject matter will include strategies for building a highly competitive application by thoroughly analyzing the scored review criteria: Fellowship Applicant; Sponsors, Collaborators, and Consultants; Training Potential; Institutional Environment and Commitment to Training; and Research Training Plan. It will also include strategies for converting a completed Thesis Proposal into the analogous documents for fellowship applications. The course will primarily focus on the application for an NRSA F30/31 award but will be applicable for students targeting other granting mechanisms that have the same components. Homework assignments will aid in the preparation of a fellowship application and will, therefore, keep students on pace for the current submission cycle. Prerequisites: Successfully having passed your Thesis Proposal Exam with the intention to submit a fellowship application by the end of the semester. Grading Policy: Pass/Fall
BSR3700 Drug Addiction: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Approaches
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
The course aims to highlight neuroanatomical and molecular mechanisms of drug addiction, with emphasis on clinical applications and novel therapeutic approaches. Clinicians and basic scientists discuss fundamental mechanisms of drug dependence and addiction, novel discoveries, along with clinical cases and reports from physicians or patients. Every lecturer will be joined by 1-2 invited guests that provide a basic science or clinical perspective of the topic. A major goal of the course is to highlight current therapeutic treatments as well as experimental treatments and clinical trials. The class will cover a range of addiction disorders, including opioid and psychostimulant addiction, alchoholism, nicotine addiction and will discuss risk factors for addiction disorders. Students will work with faculty and invited guests to present and discuss.
BSR4201 Journal Club in Cancer Biology
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
The JC in Cancer Biology critically discusses recent literature in the context of each student’s research project. Open to PhD, MDPhD and MSBS students.
BSR4301 Journal Club in Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This is a Journal Club in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology (DSCB JC). Students will present once a year a paper from the recent literature that is relevant to stem cell biology in developing or adult tissues. ++
BSR4401 Journal Club in Genetics & Data Science
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This course is mandatory for 2nd year and above GGS students, and open only to Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. students in the GGS MTA. Each week one student will present a paper selected as representing an interesting concept or advance in genetics and genomics. The presenter describes the topic of the paper, summarizing the strengths and weaknesses, followed by an open discussion and critique of the research. For the final 20 minutes, a second presenter gives a progress report about their own work.
BSR4501 Journal Club in Immunobiology
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This course follows an intensive small group discussion format that critically evaluates original research articles in the area of immunology. The articles are selected by the student in consultation with the presiding faculty member, and include recent important advances in immunology or investigations that provide conceptual advances relating to long-standing problems. The analysis will include background to the research, the hypothesis tested, the experimental methods used, as well as interpretation and discussion of results. This is a discussion class and participation is required. Students are also expected to discuss the implications of the research, the new questions it raises, and how it relates to the rest of the field. Grading will be based on class participation and extent of preparation. This class is required for students beginning in their second year until they complete their Ph.D. First year students interested in immunology are encouraged to attend. Attendance is required for all classes.
BSR4601 Journal Club in Microbiology
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This course uses a journal club format to discuss important papers along the interests of the students enrolled. Each student is instructed to carefully select a high impact paper that motivates the work in the lab and lead the discussion of the paper with the group. Active participation from all students is expected. The course meets weekly. All MIC Training Area Graduate students who have not yet completed their thesis proposal are required to take this course.
BSR4603 Journal Club in Virus-Host Interactions
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This one credit journal club course aims to communicate the most exciting ongoing research involving viruses and their molecular interactions with the host, as well as to train students and postdoctoral fellows in the skills of scientific presentation. The course is regularly attended by twenty to thirty research personnel from 10 laboratories, including faculty, postdoctoral fellows, medical students, and graduate students, both from within and outside the MSM Training Area. The course serves as a forum for interdisciplinary communication and discussion of the latest research in the fields of virology, cell biology and immunology. Informed introduction, concise presentation and critical discussion are the themes of the journal club.
BSR4702 Selected Topics in Neuroscience
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Students will present work in progress and are strongly encouraged to have their advisory committee present. Alternatively, students can present a paper with relevance to their lab work. This course meets weekly.
BSR4801 Journal Club in Pharmacological Sciences
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Journal Club in Pharmacological Sciences serves as the main journal club for the Systems Biology of Disease and Therapeutics MTA. The group meets weekly. At each meeting, a student presents a manuscript closely related to his/her dissertation project, and he/she may also present original data, although this is not required. Each paper is chosen by the student presenting that week and is usually related, in a broad sense, to Pharmacology. Topics discussed in the past year have included analysis of data in The Cancer Genome Atlas, identification of targets for treating Marfan Syndrome, and mechanisms underlying the initiation of ventricular arrhythmias.
BSR4910 AIET Journal Club
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Students in AIET MTA should register for this course.
BSR5006 Medical Scientist Grand Rounds - Fall
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Medical Scientist Grand Rounds is a series of joint clinical/scientific presentations that highlight the doctoral work of our senior MD/PhD students. A senior MD/PhD in their clinical training phasepresents the clinical case as an introduction to a scientific topic with the guidance of a clinician expert. The doctoral research presentation focuses the discussion on specific research questions from their dissertation. A panel discussion concludes the session allowing students to simultaneously inquire about the science and medicine.
BSR5201 Seminar Series in Oncological Sciences
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
The seminar series in Cancer Biology brings leading researchers to MSSM to discuss their recent research. Open to PhD, MSTP and MSBS students.
BSR5202 Seminar in Cancer Biology: Works in Progress
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Presentations of research by students provide each the opportunity to present their research at least once during the academic year.
BSR5301 Seminar in DRS: Works in Progress
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Presentation of research by students; each student to present at least once per year
BSR5302 Seminar Series in Dev & Regen Biology & Black Family Stem Cell Institute
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
All DSCB students who have not yet passed the Thesis Proposal are required to register for this course.
BSR5401 Seminar in Genetics & Data Science
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This is a CME accredited Seminar Series offered by the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at the Mount Sinai Medical Center. It is open to the entire department and institute, including faculty and trainees. The audience is diverse, with medical geneticists, basic scientists and computational biologists. All GGS students who have not yet passed the Thesis Proposal are required to register for this course.
BSR5402 Works in Progress: Gen and Data Science
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This forum provides an opportunity for Graduate Students, Postdocs and junior Faculty in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences to present ongoing work to other members of the Department, andgain experience presenting their work publically. After completing their first year rotation projects, each Graduate student is required to give at least one presentation per year. This is a required course for Graduate Students in the GGS MTA from second year until graduation.
BSR5501 Seminar in Immunobiology
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This course combines two seminar series hosted by the Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The first series features a monthly seminar given by an invited speaker who is a prominent scientist in immunology. Students are expected to familiarize themselves with the speaker’s research areas. Students are expected to attend a luncheon with the speaker which provides them with an opportunity to meet with the speaker and ask questions or engage in discussions. The second series is a weekly work-in-progress seminar presented by students and postdocs on their research.Students will be required to present in this seminar series starting in their 3rd year.
BSR5601 Seminar in Microbiology
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Because of the diverse interests of our faculty, topics for this seminar series range from immunology, virology, bacteriology, oncogenesis, and signal transduction, to molecular biology. Speakers come from all over the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. They are from both academic institutions and from industry. The seminar series is attended by faculty from basic science, as well as from clinical departments.
BSR5701 Seminar in Neuroscience
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This is the Friedman Brain Institute Translational Neuroscience seminar series. Students in the Neuroscience MTA are required to attend. The seminar provides weekly lectures by outstanding neuroscientists, encompassing all domains of neurobiology, with an emphasis on discovery and translational neuroscience. The seminars will be advertised by e-mail and will be posted on bulletin boards throughout the institution. The seminars are also posted on the FBI website: consult http://icahn.mssm.edu/research/institutes/brain-institute/events
BSR5803 Seminar in Biophysics and Systems Pharmacology
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
A series of seminars broadly related to pathophysiology, drug development, and/or systems-level computational analyses.
BSR5910 AIET Seminar
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Students in AIET MTA should register for this course.
BSR5912 AIET Work in Progress
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
Students in AIET MTA should register for this course.
BSR6202 Advanced Topics in Tumor Biology
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
Advanced topics in tumor biology is a participatory lecture-based course focusing on cancer diagnosis, therapeutics, genetics,behavioral medicine and ethics. Open to PhD, MSTP and MSBS students.
BSR6402 Practical Analysis of a Personal Genome
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
Students in this course will analyze a human genome sequence starting with raw sequence reads through identifying a list of sequence variants. Using public databases, literature and other resources students will formulate hypotheses about the phenotypic significance of these variants. This is a hands-on, laboratory course in which students will choose to analyze either their own genome or a reference genome after lectures and counseling to make the consequences of personal genome analysis clear.
BSR6601 Advanced Virology
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
The purpose of this course is to develop skills to enhance discovery of medically useful drugs. The course uses a case-study approach describing the discovery of the most valuable drugs currently in use, with an emphasis on phenotypic screening, combined with exposure to cutting edge bioinformatics tools. Some of the drugs to be addressed are penicillin, insulin, the small pox vaccine, ether, morphine, aspirin, salvarsan, thorazine/Haldol, norethindrone, and digoxin. Of particular interest will be assessment of what is, or more generally what is not, known about mechanisms by which drugs exert their therapeutic effects, and how the development of drugs have elucidated mechanisms of disease.
BSR6704 Advanced Topics in Synapses
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
The course will cover development, composition, plasticity, and disease related vulnerability of synapses in the central nervous system. The format will be one of discussion and debate surrounding papers in the current literature. Prerequisites: Neuroscience Core or strong neuroscience background
BSR6709 Consciousness: How the Hard Problem can Inform Exper Studies
Credits: 2 Offered: Fall
The term hard problem articulates the difficulty of explaining the transition between physical (e.g., neurons) and phenomenal entities (e.g., colors). Thus, why is any merely neural dynamic the basis for any phenomenal experience at all? Alternatively, if we induce some neural dynamic, why does the inductee not merely experience neurons firing, rather than, e.g., seeing phosphenes? I will begin with a brief philosophical overview and move to computational and neurally oriented efforts to address this most central issue of the problem of consciousness.
BSR6716 Advanced Topics in Social Neuroscience
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
This course will give students a chance to have detailed discussion of current topics in social neuroscience. We will cover research on social neuroscience in human, non-human primates and rodents, as well as covering both psychological and neurobiological aspects.
BSR7701 Career Enhancement Training I
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
The objective of this elective is to provide students with advanced training in an area of interest to them in support of dissertation research and their long-term career development. As part of this elective, students are required to participate in an internship of their choosing and that has prior approval by the student’s dissertation advisor and the course directors. Students are required to provide periodic oral update reports of their progress in the internship (the frequency of these will be determined by the length of the internship) and a final paper summarizing the internship.
BSR7704 Career Enhancement Training IV
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
The objective of this elective is to provide students with advanced training in an area of interest to them in support of dissertation research and their long-term career development. As part of this elective, students are required to participate in an internship of their choosing and that has prior approval by the student’s dissertation advisor and the course directors. Students are required to provide periodic oral update reports of their progress in the internship (the frequency of these will be determined by the length of the internship) and a final paper summarizing the internship.
BSR7707 Career Enhancement Training VII
Credits: 1 Offered: Fall
The objective of this elective is to provide students with advanced training in an area of interest to them in support of dissertation research and their long-term career development. As part of this elective, students are required to participate in an internship of their choosing and that has prior approval by the student’s dissertation advisor and the course directors. Students are required to provide periodic oral update reports of their progress in the internship (the frequency of these will be determined by the length of the internship) and a final paper summarizing the internship.
BSR8000 Independent Research for Basic Science Research
Credits: 10 Offered: Fall
Research Credit for Independent Research. Only PhD and MD/PhD in Biomedical Science or Neuroscience, who have NOT passed the Thesis Proposal should register for this course
BSR8002 Independent Research: MS Biomed Sci: I - Fall
Credits: 4 Offered: Fall
Research Credit for Independent Research. 1st year Masters in Biomedical Science students should register for this course.
BSR8004 Independent Research: MS Biomed Science Fall
Credits: 4-8 Offered: Fall
Course holder for MSBS students doing 3rd AY for Research only. Research Credit for Independent Research. 2nd year Masters in Biomedical Science students should register for this course for the Fall term 2nd year MSBS students should register for 8 credits of Research, if they plan on completing the degree requirements by December.
BSR8006 MSBS Independent Research III - Fall
Credits: 0 Offered: Fall
This course is open to 3rd year MSBS students who are working full-time in a lab during the Fall semester to complete their master's thesis.
BSR8900 Thesis: MS Biomedical Science
Credits: 3 Offered: Fall
Thesis Credit for MS Biomedical Science. 2nd yr MSBS students should register for this course, only if they are planning to defend and deposit their MS thesis in the upcoming semester.
BSR9000 Doctoral Dissertation Research
Credits: 7-10 Offered: Fall
Research Credit for Doctoral Dissertation Research. Only PhD and MD/PhD in Biomedical Science or Neuroscience, who have passed the Thesis Proposal should register for this course
BSR9900 Doctoral Dissertation Continuation
Credits: 0 Offered: Fall
Registration for Biomedical Science and Neuroscience PhD students who have defended, but have not yet deposited their dissertation
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