Curriculum
GGIP's coursework is minimal to allow for additional courses of the individual candidate's selection.
Prior to matriculating, applicants are expected to have a strong background in cellular biology and statistics.
Graduate students who did not earn and undergraduate or graduate degree from an approved English-medium institution, as confirmed with the UC Davis Graduate Studies OR meet the requirements listed here are required to take UWP 225 or UWP 226 in their first academic year.
Master's Degree (M.S.)
Core Courses (18 units)
PMI | 201 | Integrative Pathobiology Core I | 5 units |
PMI | 202 | Integrative Pathobiology Core II | 4 units |
PMI | 203 | Experimental Design | 2 units |
PMI | 270 | Advanced Immunology | 3 units |
PMI | 200 | Foundations in Research | 1 unit |
MPM | 209 | Group-Specific Seminar I - Scientific Writing | 1 unit |
Variable | 200+ | Research Seminar or Journal Club | 1 unit |
Electives | See Below | 1+ units |
Electives should accommodate special interests of the student within the broad field of Integrative Pathobiology. Examples of fields of specialization in which electives may be taken are virology, infectious disease, immunology, pulmonary biology, environmental disease, neurobiology, developmental and stem cell biology, cancer biology, toxicology, cell biology and molecular pathobiology. There is a wide latitude in the electives that the students may pursue, although the electives must be consistent with the student’s thesis project and be approved by the student’s graduate advisor. Examples of electives taken by our students include: MCB 121, MCB 161, MMI 280, IMM 203, MIC 262, and BIM 189C.
Ethics
RCR Program | Research Ethics | 8 seminars |
The student is required to take a minimum of 30 quarter units of upper division and graduate course work and submit a thesis based on original research. The course requirements must be fulfilled by taking 18 units of core coursework and 12 of the 30 units must be graduate work (lab rotations) in the major field as defined by the graduate advisor and the major professor. Electives are chosen with the approval of the graduate advisor. For all students, there are 18 units of required course work. Most of the additional units are obtained by taking research seminars and research units (for example, PMI 299) from the major professor or other collaborating faculty.
Doctoral Degree (Ph.D.)
Core Courses (20 units)
PMI | 201 | Integrative Pathobiology Core I | 5 units |
PMI | 202 | Integrative Pathobiology Core II | 4 units |
PMI | 203 | Experimental Design | 2 units |
PMI | 270 | Advanced Immunology | 3 units |
PMI | 200 | Foundations in Research | 1 unit |
MPM | 209 | Group-Specific Seminar I - Scientific Writing | 1 unit |
PMI | 290 | QE Prep | 1 unit |
Variable | 200+ | Research Seminars or Journal Club | 1 unit |
Electives | See Below | 2 units |
Electives should accommodate special interests of the student within the broad field of Integrative Pathobiology. Examples of fields of specialization in which electives may be taken are virology, infectious disease, immunology, pulmonary biology, environmental disease, neurobiology, developmental and stem cell biology, cancer biology, toxicology, cell biology and molecular pathobiology. There is a wide latitude in the electives that the students may pursue, although the electives must be consistent with the student’s dissertation project and be approved by the student’s graduate advisor. Examples of electives taken by our students include: MCB 121, MCB 161, MMI 280, IMM 203, MIC 262, and BIM 189C.
Ethics
RCR Program | Research Ethics | 8 seminars |
The student is required to take a minimum of 30 quarter units of upper division and graduate course work and submit a dissertation based on original research. The course requirements must be fulfilled by taking 20 units of core coursework and 10 of the 30 units must be obtained by taking research courses (for example, PMI 299) from the major professor or other collaborating faculty. Additional elective courses can be chosen with the approval of the graduate advisor.
Elective Coursework
Students in this Graduate Group have taken advantage of the world class instruction around the UC Davis campus. Beyond the core curriculum, students are encouraged to take elective coursework in order to further bolster their expertise. Here is a list of some of the recommended electives:
ABG 211 - Animal Biotech Genetics
BCB 210 - Molecular Genetics and Genomics
BCB 256 - Cell and Molecular Biology of Cancer
BCB 257 - Cell Proliferation and Cancer Genes
BIM 254 - Statistical Methods in Genomics
BIT 150 - Applied Bioinformatics
BST 252 - Advanced Topics in Biostatistics
CHA 202 - Research Microanatomy
ENT 153 - Medical Entomology
ENT 214 - Vector-Borne Infectious Disease
EPI 205 - Principles in Epidemiology
EPI 206 - Epidemiology Study Design
ETX 103A - Environmental Fate of Toxicants
ETX 120 - Aquatic Toxicology
ETX 138 - Legal Aspects of Environmental Toxicology
EVE 100 - Intro to Evolution
GEL 232 - Oceans and Climate
GGG 293 - Seminar in Animal Genetics
IMM 201 - Intro to Immunology
IMM 203 - Cancer Immunology
IMM 210 - Neuroimmunology Topics
IMM 293 - Immunology Concepts
IMM 294 - Clinical Immunology
IMM 297 - Mucosal Immunology
MCB 121 - Advanced Molecular Biology
MCB 182 - Principles of Genomics
MCP 200L - Animal Cell Culture
MCP 210A - Advanced Physiology
MCP 220 - Physiology of Reproduction
MIC 102 - Introduction to Microbiology
MIC 104L - General Microbiology Lab
MIC 111 - Human Microbiology
MIC 175 - Cancer Biology
MIC 262 - Advanced General Molecular Virology
MIC 275 - Seminar in DNA Replication and Recombination
MIC 276 - Advanced Concepts in DNA Metabolism
MMI 130 - Medical Mycology
MMI 200D - Microbial Interactions
MMI 215 - Medical Parasitology
MMI 280 - Microbiota and Health
MMI 188 - Human Immunology
MPM 205 - Principles in Epidemiology
NPB 101 - Systemic Physiology
NPB 101D - Systemic Physiology Discussion
NPB 130 - Endocrinology
NPB 134 - General Immunology
NPB 142 - Environmental Endocrinology & Life Cycles
NUT 251 - Nutrition and Immunity
PHR 212 - Epidemiology of Zoonoses
PHR 241 - Topics in Canine Genetics
PHR 266 - Analytic Epidemiology
PMI 127 - Medical Microbiology
PMI 128 - Biology of Animal Viruses
PMI 206 - Mentored Scientific Writing
PMI 214 - Vector-Borne Infectious Disease
PMI 221 - Topic in Virus Research
PMI 283 - Comparative Avian Anatomy and Pathology
PMI 285 - Cellular Basis of Disease
PMI 293A - Seminar Infectious Disease
PTX 201 - Principles of Pharmacology and Toxicology
PTX 230 - Advanced Topics in Pharmacology Toxicology
PTX 277 - Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer and Disease
VME 158 - Disease Ecology
VME 217 - Eval & Use Diagnostic Tests
VME 225 - Viral Pathogenesis
VME 258 - Disease Ecology
A list of the current campus-wide schedule of courses can be found here.
Important Documents