TOPICS IN ENVIRONMENTAL VIRAL PATHOGEN SURVEILLANCE

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: (BOTANY 101 and 102) or BIOLOGY/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 152 and ( GENETICS 466 or 468 ), BIOCORE 383 , or graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Natural Science & Wellness Breadth - Biological Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how viral pathogen surveillance has been performed historically and propose how that will evolve as technologies improve Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe different ways molecularly characterize the presence of DNA and RNA from different sample sources Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe the molecular details of different DNA sequencing techniques Audience: Undergraduate 4. Process metagenomic sequence data to characterize viruses present in a sample Audience: Undergraduate 5. Compare and contrast the use of different types of environmental samples for viral pathogen surveillance Audience: Undergraduate 6. Propose ways that viral pathogen surveillance data could be used by public health agencies to encourage behavioral changes Audience: Undergraduate 7. Identify how viral pathogen surveillance data can provide information to local, national, and global communities Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how viral pathogen surveillance has been performed historically and propose how that will evolve as technologies improve Audience: Undergraduate 2. Describe different ways molecularly characterize the presence of DNA and RNA from different sample sources Audience: Undergraduate 3. Describe the molecular details of different DNA sequencing techniques Audience: Undergraduate 4. Process metagenomic sequence data to characterize viruses present in a sample Audience: Undergraduate 5. Compare and contrast the use of different types of environmental samples for viral pathogen surveillance Audience: Undergraduate 6. Propose ways that viral pathogen surveillance data could be used by public health agencies to encourage behavioral changes Audience: Undergraduate 7. Identify how viral pathogen surveillance data can provide information to local, national, and global communities Audience: Undergraduate