Courses of Interest:
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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/courses/index.htm#top)
Biological Engineering
Macroepidemiology
(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-102Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm)
Course Description: This course presents a challenging multi-dimensional perspective on the causes of human disease and mortality. The course focuses on analyses of major causes of mortality in the US since 1900: cancer, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, diabetes, and infectious diseases.
Chemicals in the Environment: Toxicology and Public Health
(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-104JSpring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm)
Course Description: This course addresses the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental chemicals and human disease. Course topics include epidemiological approaches to understanding disease causation; biostatistical methods; evaluation of human exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions with cellular components, and biological effects; and qualitative and quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for regulatory decision-making.
Selected Lecture Notes:
(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-104JSpring-2005/LectureNotes/index.htm)
| Column1 | Column2 | Column3 | Column4 | Column5 | Column6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introductory Lecture | Watch film A Civil Action | From the Real World to Hollywood and Back Again | Epidemiology: Persons, Places, and Time | Epidemiology: Test Development and Relative Risk | Biostatistics: Concepts in Variance |
| Biostatistics: Distribution and the Mean | Confidence Intervals | Biostatistics: Detecting Differences and Correlations | Biostatistics: Poisson Analyses and Power | Environetics: Cause and Effect | Environetics: Study Design - Retrospective versus Prospective |
| Environetics: Putting it all together - Evaluating Studies | Evaluating Environmental Causes of Mesothelioma | Quantitative Risk Assessment 1 | Quantitative Risk Assessment 2 | Toxicology 1 | Toxicology 2 |
| Toxicology 3 | Toxicology 4 | Toxicology 5 | Quantitative Risk Assessment 3 | Quantitative Risk Assessment 4 |
Systems Microbiology
(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-106JFall-2006/CourseHome/index.htm)
Course Description: This course covers introductory microbiology from a systems perspective, considering microbial diversity, population dynamics, and genomics. Emphasis is placed on the delicate balance between microbes and humans, and the changes that result in the emergence of infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. The case study approach covers such topics as vaccines, toxins, biodefense, and infections including Legionnaire’s disease, tuberculosis, Helicobacter pylori, and plague.
Lecture Notes:
(http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Biological-Engineering/20-106JFall-2006/LectureNotes/index.htm)
Column1 | Column2 | Column3 | Column4 | Column5 | Column6 Early Earth/Microbial Evolution|Cell Structure/Function|Biological Energy Conservation|Microbial Growth|Metabolic Regulation|Virology Information Flow in Biological Systems|Regulation of Cell Activity|Genetic Exchange in Bacteria|Experimental Evolution: Optimization of Metabolic Systems|Genomics I|Genomics II Metabolic Diversity I|Metabolic Diversity II|Microbial Ecology|Microbial Growth Control|Microbe-host Interactions|Immunology I Immunology II|Diagnostic Microbiology|Person-to-person Transmission|Epidemiology|Animal- and Arthropod-transmitted Diseases|Review