IMM 5176 ADVANCED TOPICS IN IMMUNOLOGY
This course consists of an integrated series of lectures designed to familiarize students with cellular, molecular, and biochemical aspects of the development of the immune system and the immune response. The first half of the course focuses on the immune system and the function of its major components. The second half focuses on how the various components are integrated during the response to infectious agents, how the system is naturally perturbed in diseases of autoimmunity and immunodeficiency, and how the system can be controlled therapeutically.