Dr. Tom McConnell (Office: N-305; phone 328-4244) Office Hours: 4:00 - 5:00 PM   M-TH Lecture: Room: BN-102; Time: 1:00-3:00 PM  M-Th (4 days/week)

BIOL 5890 is a senior/graduate level introduction to modern virology. The principles of virology are presented with emphasis on a molecular perspective.

Grades will be based on two one-hour exams and a comprehensive final exam. Each of the one-hour exams will count 33% of your final grade. The final exam will count 34% of your final grade. Failure to take an exam at the assigned time and date will result in a zero for that exam. These exams are your only point opportunities and will cover lecture material and reading assignments from the text. Students with excused absences from any of the exams may be allowed to take a comprehensive makeup exam scheduled for Tuesday, June 25 (last day of class), subject to my approval. Only one makeup exam will be given. Undergraduate student exams (e.g. 4BI or equivalent) and post-Bachelor-degree student exams (6GR, 7GR, etc.) will have one or more different questions - totaling approximately 10% of the point value of each exam - often in the form of an experimental design question for the "GR" students.

Microbiology, BIOL 3220, 3221

Basic Laboratory Methods in Biotechnology, BIOL 3100/3101

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Introduction

Basic properties of viruses
Virus Structure
Virus attachment to host cells
Virus entry into cells
Viral genome replication and mRNA production

May 21, Tuesday, first day of class
May 27, Monday, Holiday, no class
May 30, Thursday, Exam #1
June 4, Tuesday, Last day for undergraduate drop
June 13, Thursday, Exam #2
June 19, Last day for graduate student drop
June 25, Tuesday, Last day of class

FINAL EXAM: June 26, Wednesday,  1:00-3:00 PM
 
 

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