Microbiology (BIOMI)Agriculture and Life Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

BIOMI 1100

Microbial habitats are literally everywhere on a college campus - and college students interact with microorganisms daily. From the athlete locker room, to the kitchen, to the bathroom, to between the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18218 BIOMI 1100   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Fieweger, R

      Hefferon, K

      Keller, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 1120

We live on a microbial earth. If we happen to consider microbes in our daily lives most people conjure images of disease, but in reality we depend on microbes to sustain our world. This course showcases ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory.

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7029 BIOMI 1120   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7030 BIOMI 1120   LAB 401

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 2100

This class will explore the current theories about the chemical origins of life on earth, and will then use these insights to discuss the search for life on other planets, inside the Solar system and outside. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6334 BIOMI 2100   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Chatterjee, S

      Kaltenegger, L

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 2500

This course will use a variety of teaching methods (including historical and current case studies and databases) to help students understand basic principles of microbiology as they apply to the emergence, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6369 BIOMI 2500   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 2900

Comprehensive overview of the biology of microorganisms, with emphasis on bacteria. Topics include microbial cell structure and function, physiology, metabolism, genetics, diversity, and ecology. Also ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIOMI 2900

  • 3-4 Credits Graded

  •  1153 BIOMI 2900   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Doerr, T

      Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: one semester of introductory biology (or AP Biology) and one semester of chemistry (or AP Chemistry). Recommended corequisite: BIOMI 2911.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BIOMI 2900

  • 3-4 Credits Graded

  •  1154 BIOMI 2900   LEC 002

    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Doerr, T

      Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1155 BIOMI 2900   DIS 201

    • M
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Doerr, T

      Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1475 BIOMI 2900   DIS 202

    • M
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Doerr, T

      Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1476 BIOMI 2900   DIS 203

    • M
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Doerr, T

      Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1477 BIOMI 2900   DIS 204

    • T
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Doerr, T

      Hefferon, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 2911

This class will introduce you to current concepts and laboratory techniques in microbiology. Our goal is to show you how scientists use experiments to learn about the microbes around us, with an emphasis ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one laboratory.

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1161 BIOMI 2911   LEC 001

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Recommend corequisite: BIOMI 2900. No auditing is allowed.

  •  1162 BIOMI 2911   LAB 401

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1425 BIOMI 2911   LAB 402

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1163 BIOMI 2911   LAB 403

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1426 BIOMI 2911   LAB 404

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7871 BIOMI 2911   LAB 405

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9017 BIOMI 2911   LAB 406

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18289 BIOMI 2911   LAB 407

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Filter, J

      Wendel, B

      Winans, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 3210

The microbes on and in our bodies are as abundant as our own cells. These diverse microorganisms provide us with metabolic capacities beyond our own and are essential to good health, but can also play ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1382 BIOMI 3210   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Hay, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: BIOMI 2900 or permission of instructor.

BIOMI 3500

Marine microorganisms fuel globally significant elemental cycles through their activities. They also drive diseases in multicellular life through pathogenesis, modulation of host-associated microbiomes, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: EAS 3555

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6788 BIOMI 3500   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Hewson, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 3940

Food Science 3940 will focus on the origin, transmission, consequences, and management of diverse microbiota throughout the food chain. Topics in this course generally include: 1) the microbiota of different ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIOMI 5940FDSC 3940FDSC 5940

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  1124 BIOMI 3940   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Snyder, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: BIOMI 2900 and BIOMI 2910 or BIOMI 2911.

BIOMI 4090

Principles of Virology is a course designed to convey the basic principles of virus biology, to illustrate the key concepts of virus-host interactions and their consequences for virus replication ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  1135 BIOMI 4090   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Diel, D

      Parker, J

      Schang, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 4850

Bacteria and archaea are the driving force behind all major environmental cycles on the planet, they are critical players in a broad range of agricultural and industrial applications, as well as being ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIOMI 4850BIOMI 6850

  • 2-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1117 BIOMI 4850   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Gallagher, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: BIOMG 2800. Recommended prerequisite: BIOMI 2900, BIOMG 3300, BIOMG 3310, and BIOMG 3320, or BIOMG 3350.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BIOMI 4850BIOMI 6850

  • 2-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1118 BIOMI 4850   LEC 002

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Gallagher, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: BIOMG 2800. Recommended prerequisite: BIOMI 2900, BIOMG 3300, BIOMG 3310, and BIOMG 3320, or BIOMG 3350. Email Kelley Gallagher (kag337) with questions.

  •  1119 BIOMI 4850   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Gallagher, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 4980

Designed to give qualified undergraduate students teaching experience through actual involvement in planning and assisting in biology courses. This experience may include supervised participation in a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

BIOMI 5940

The course will focus on the origin, transmission, consequences, and management of diverse microbiota throughout the food chain. Topics in this course generally include: 1) the microbiota of different ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIOMI 3940FDSC 3940FDSC 5940

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19362 BIOMI 5940   LEC 001

    • MWF
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Snyder, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 6090

Principles of Virology is a course designed to convey the basic principles of virus biology, to illustrate the key concepts of virus-host interactions and their consequences for virus replication ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6444 BIOMI 6090   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Diel, D

      Parker, J

      Schang, L

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 6850

Bacteria and archaea are the driving force behind all major environmental cycles on the planet, they are critical players in a broad range of agricultural and industrial applications, as well as being ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BIOMI 4850BIOMI 6850

  • 2-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8716 BIOMI 6850   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Gallagher, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: BIOMG 2800. Recommended prerequisite: BIOMI 2900, BIOMG 3300, BIOMG 3310, and BIOMG 3320, or BIOMG 3350.

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: BIOMI 4850BIOMI 6850

  • 2-3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8717 BIOMI 6850   LEC 002

    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Gallagher, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisite: BIOMG 2800. Recommended prerequisite: BIOMI 2900, BIOMG 3300, BIOMG 3310, and BIOMG 3320, or BIOMG 3350. Email Kelley Gallagher (kag337) with questions.

  •  8719 BIOMI 6850   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Gallagher, K

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 7100

Graduate level introduction to environmental microbiology including an introduction to microbial cell physiology, overview of microbial habitats (soil, groundwater, freshwater and marine habitats), ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19217 BIOMI 7100   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Hay, A

      Hewson, I

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisites: Undergraduate Introductory Biology Preference for this class will be given to 1st year Microbiology Graduate Students.

BIOMI 7800

The oceans cover 70% of the planet and are at the center of earth’s function as a habitable planet. They hold value for humans in context of cultural and natural resources, and are also sources and sinks ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  • 19007 BIOMI 7800   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

BIOMI 7970

The ability to communicate effectively is essential for success as a scientist. The primary goal of this course is to provide students with an opportunity to develop self-confidence and refine their formal ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  •  1050 BIOMI 7970   DIS 201

    • F
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Helmann, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Requirement for graduate students in graduate field of microbiology.

BIOMI 7990

The microbiology seminar series hosts local, national, and international speakers for research seminars. Students in BioMi 7990 gain insight into current topics and cutting-edge methods in microbiology, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit Sat/Unsat

  •  1095 BIOMI 7990   SEM 101

    • R
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025
    • Feaga, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Requirement for all graduate students in the field of microbiology. Open to all who are interested.