Division of Allergy, Immunoology and Infectious Diseases

Molecular Virology

Molecular Virology (Spring 2008)

Course Directors

Dr. Victor Stollar, M.D.
Phone: 732-235-4596
Email: stollar@umdnj.edu

Dr. Monica Roth, PhD.
Phone: 732-235-5048
Email: roth@umdnj.edu

Description

RUTGERS COURSE # 16:681:555
UMDNJ COURSE # MICRO 5009: 3 credits.

The class will be given in the spring semester of 2008 and will meet twice a week.

The emphasis of this course is on the molecular aspects of viral replication. Apart from two lectures devoted to plant viruses, the course will deal only with animal viruses, all of which are important causes of human disease. Representative RNA and DNA viruses will be discussed. There will also be lectures on viruses and tumorigenesis, viruses as vectors, host defenses against viral infection, the prevention of virus infections by vaccines, and antiviral chemotherapy.

Class time: 1:10 - 2:25 p.m.

1. Tues	Jan. 22	V10	Introduction PP-MolVir-Intro-08 Intro-01-22-08	Stollar
2. Thurs	Jan. 24	V10	Positive-strand RNA viruses PP-MolVir-picorna-08 B and W Picorna-08 Molvir-PP-Flavi-Toga-08 Molvir-Flavi-Toga-08 BW PP-Flavi-Toga-08 BW	Stollar
3. Tues	Jan. 29	V10		Stollar
4. Thurs	Jan. 31	V10	Plant Viruses Hillman -part 1 -02-08 Hillman-part 2 -02-08	Hillman
5. Tues	Feb 5	V10		Hillman
6. Thurs	Feb. 7	V10	Translational Control and Virus Infection KinzyBW	Kinzy
7. Tues	Feb. 12	V10	Viral Entry ViralEntry08	Roth
8. Thurs	Feb. 14	V10	Negative-strand RNA viruses Negative Strand	Parks
9. Tues	Feb. 19	V10	Retrotransposable elements kazazian review 2007 human retrotransposon talk	Gabriel
10. Thurs	Feb. 21	V10	Human Cytomegalovirus HCMV2008a	Zhu
11. Tues	Feb. 26	V10	Retroviruses Retrovirusvirology08	Roth
12. Thurs	Feb. 28	V10	Reverse transcriptaste: structure and function Virology RT lecture 2-28BW	Arnold
13. Tues	Mar. 4	V10	Hepatitis C HCV Joe M 03-08	Marcotrigiano
14. Thurs	Mar. 6	V10	Vaccines Vaccines 3-6-08	Randolph
15. Tues	Mar. 11	V10	Student presentations
16. Thurs	Mar. 13	V10	Test
	Mar. 17-21		Spring break
17. Tues	Mar. 25	V10	Interferons langer-08	Langer
18. Thurs	Mar. 27	V10	Influenza Influenza VS-1	Stollar
19. Tues	April 1	V10	Viral infection and host defences viralimmunol4108 viralimmunol. 4.1.08	Covey
20. Thurs	April 3	V10	West Nile disease Kramer	Kramer
21. Tues	Apr. 8	V10	Oncogenic viruses Gelinas - Viral Oncogenesis	Gelinas
22. Thurs	Apr. 10	V10	Student Presentations
23. Tues	Apr. 15	V10	Viruses as vectors	Dougherty
24. Thurs	Apr. 17	V10	Oncogenic viruses II	Gelinas
25. Tues	Apr. 22	V10	HIV and AIDS HIV-MolVirol 4-08	Rabson
26. Thurs	Apr. 24	V10	Papilloma viruses Prophylactic Vaccines Against Cxcancerfor Stollar ProphylacticVaccineBW	Jansen
27. Tues	Apr. 29	V10	Poxviruses PoxvirusMicro5009	Lattime
28.Thurs	May 1	V10	Antiviral Therapy UHANDOUT	Laughlin