The iMicro faculty offer students the following courses, all through the mini-course format in the Spring quarter. Minicourses are offered in the spring quarter of the first year as a collaborative effort with all of the PhD programs. These courses are typically two to three weeks in length and are more focused on a narrow topic with in-depth review of primary literature in a discussion group setting.
BMS270: Molecular Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis is offered as a spring quarter mini-course. Each session starts with a 20 minute “state of the art” overview of the topic by a UCSF faculty expert. This is followed by a faculty-led discussion of one relevant paper in which the students present and critically discuss the paper. Papers range from classic papers to the most recent cutting-edge research. The course is open to all graduate students, but first year and iMicro-affiliated students have priority.
In addition, iMicro faculty participate in a broad range of other spring mini-courses. Check here for a full list of mini-courses.