BSR Spring 2 Courses

BSR3102 Principles of Scientific Proposals

Credits: 0.5 Offered: Spring 2

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 sev- eral 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

BSR6602 Emerging & Re-emerging Viral Threats

Credits: 1 Offered: Spring 2

Emerging Zika and Ebola viruses caused the two most recent crises in global public health. More and more novel viral threats are discovered and old viral threats are re-emerging. This course will discuss important emerging and re-emerging viruses and their biology, pathogenicity and prevalence. We will also focus on novel prophylactic (vaccines) and therapeutic technologies that are under development to combat these viruses. The course will cover orthomyxoviruses (influenza), paramyxoviruses (Nipah, Hendra etc.), flaviviruses (dengue, Zika etc.), alphaviruses (Chikungunya etc.), bunyaviruses (hantaviruses, CCHFV etc.), filoviruses (Marburg virus, ebolaviruses), coronaviruses (SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV) and others.

BSR7703 Career Enhancement Training

Credits: 1 Offered: Spring 2

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.

BSR7706 Career Enhancement Training VI

Credits: 1 Offered: Spring 2

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: 3 Offered: Spring 2

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

BSR8007 MSBS Independent Research III - Spring

Credits: 0 Offered: Spring 2

This course is open to 3rd year MSBS students who are working full-time in a lab during the Spring semester to complete their master's thesis. The course is graded Pass/Fail. Tuition is not charged for this course.

BSR9100 Visiting Student Doctoral Research

Credits: 0 Offered: Spring 2

For visiting students/scholars only