Credits: 2

Grading: S (Satisfactory)/U (Unsatisfactory)

Course Director: Jim Culver, Office: Plant Sciences 6139, Lab: 6137, Phone: 5-2912, email: jculver@umd.edu

 Class location and meeting time:

3:00 to 5:00pm, H.J. Patterson, Rm1216

 

                                                         February 1

Organizational Meeting  

                                                   February 8 & 15

Anne Simon

"Development of a model system to study replication and translation of plus-strand RNA viruses"  

                                                   

                                                  February 22 & 29

Jim Culver

                                              "Plant-Virus Interactions"

 

March 7 & 14

                                                   Jonathan Dinman

"Translational Recoding in Viruses"

 

March 28 & April 4

Jeff DeStefano

"HIV mechanisms for generating genetic diversity and what it means to drug therapy and vaccine development"

 

April 11 & 18

Kim Green

"Molecular Epidemiology of Viruses"

"Calicivirus Replication"

 

April 25 & May 2

Brenda Fredericksen

"Acute and persistent infections caused by members of the Flaviviridae and

 Evasion of the innate antiviral response"

 

Grading and other information:

Students will receive a grade of Satisfactory (S) or Unsatisfactory (U) based on their performance on take home questions and attendance of lectures.  Take home questions will be provided by the individual instructors and must be completed within two-weeks.  The instructors may assign reading material for their section of the course.  Individual instructors have the option to choose a format that best suits their lectures and test questions.