MCB 531 Introduction to Immunology
This team-taught interdisciplinary course covers basic and intermediate principles of innate and adaptive immunity, including hematopoietic cell lineages, innate defense mechanisms, antigen presentation and recognition, lymphocyte development and signaling, and generation of humoral and cell mediated responses against specific classes of pathogens. From these principles, the course then delves into mechanisms of pathogenesis associated with aberrant immune responses, including immunodeficiency, allergy, autoimmunity, transplant rejection, and cancer. Students also begin to learn how to interpret salient data that describes normal and abnormal states of the immune system, generated from relevant techniques (e.g. flow cytometry, ELISA, immunoblotting, mouse models, etc.).