Courses

Required Courses

Course # Course Name Credits
BMS 501
 Cell Biology (fall)
 4
BMS 502
 Essentials of Genetics and Genomics (fall)
 3
BMS 503
 Principles of Biochemistry (fall)
 4
ORB 500
 Cranio. Dev, Tissue Eng & Oral (fall) 2
ORB 510
 Saliva and the Oral Microbiome (spring)
 4
ORB 519
 Critical Analysis of Literature in Oral Biology (fall)
 1
ORB 520
 Critical Analysis of Literature in Oral Biology (spring)
 1
OS 518
STA 525
STA 527		 Statistical Methods Oral Science(spring) ... or 
Stat. for Bioinformatics (spring) ... or
Intro. To Medical Statistics (fall)		 4
3
4
ORB 651
 Research, Laboratory Rotations
 3-6
ORB 653
 Dissertation Guidance
 1 

Required Training

Course # Course Name Credits
RCR/CITI Responsible Conduct of Research/CITI Training 0

Recommended Course

Course # Course Name Credits
RPG 603/604 Basics in Grantsmanship (fall/spring) 1

Other Possible Elective Courses

Course # Course Name Credits
ORB 545
 Dynamics of Bone (fall)
 2
BCH 507
 Protein Structure and Function
 2
BCH 508
 Gene Expression
 2
BCH 519  Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 
 3 
BCH 607
 DNA Replication and Repair
 2
BE 520
 Biomaterials in Regenerative Medicine
 3
BE 555
 Biomechanics and Mechanobiology 3
BIO 501
 Advanced Biological Chemistry 4
BIO 502
 Advanced Cell and Developmental Biology 4
BIO 550 Human Evolutionary Genomics (fall) 3 
MIC 406/506 Composition and Function of the Human Microbiome 2
MIC 512 
 Fundamentals of Immunology 
 2 
MIC 513
 Eukaryotic Pathogens 
 2 
MIC 515 
 Virology
 2 
MIC 516
 Bacteriology
 2 
NRS 520 
 Neuroscience I
 4
NRS 524
 Neuroscience III (by permission of instructor)
 3
PGY 505
 Cell and Membrane Physiology
 4
PMY 512  Principles of Pharmacology II 
 4
PMY 516
 Graduate Pharmacology II
 5
PMY 526
 Trends in Pharmacological Sciences (TIPS)
 2
PMY 527
 Translational Pharmacology
 2
STA 525
 Statistics for Bioinformatics
 2
STB 531 Protein Expression, Purification, and Crystallization 3