In addition to core courses, students must take elective courses to total 10 credits (the ethics course does not count towards the credits total). See the Course Requirements section of the handbook for more information. Syllabi for some courses can be found in the Student Resources Box folder (only accessible by CMB students). *Indicates top five most popular electives taken by CMB students over the past 6 years. Notes about whether the subject is offered online or in-person are subject to change. See the Course Search & Enroll application in MyUW for the most up-to-date information.
Elective Courses
| wdt_ID | Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Offered |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | BIOCHEM 601* | Protein and Enzyme Structure and Function | 2 | Fall |
| 3 | BIOCHEM / BOTANY 621 | Plant Biochemistry | 3 | Fall (odd years) |
| 4 | BIOCHEM / PHMCOL-M / ZOOLOGY 630* | Cellular Signal Transduction Mechanisms | 3 | NOT AVAILABLE FOR 2023-2024 |
| 5 | B M E 510 | Introduction to Tissue Engineering | 3 | Fall, Summer |
| 6 | B M E 545 | Engineering Extracellular Matrices | 3 | Spring (not offered in Spring 2024) |
| 7 | B M E 556 | Systems Biology: Mammalian Signaling Networks | 3 | Spring |
| 8 | B M I 773 | Clinical Research Informatics | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 9 | B M I / STAT 877 | Statistical Methods in Molecular Biology | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 11 | CRB 610 | Fundamentals of Mammalian Embryology | 2 | Fall, Spring |
| 12 | CRB 640 | Fundamentals of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology | 3 | Spring |
| 13 | CRB 650 | Molecular and Cellular Organogenesis | 3 | Spring |
| 14 | CRB / MEDICINE 701 | Cell Signaling and Human Disease | 1 | Spring |
| 15 | B M E 520 | Stem Cell Bioengineering | 3 | Spring |
| 18 | BIOCHEM / CHEM 665 | Biophysical Chemistry | 4 | Fall, Spring |
| 19 | BIOCHEM / GENETICS 631 | Plant Genetics | 3 | Fall |
| 20 | GENETICS 633 | Population Genetics | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 22 | GENETICS 885* | Advanced Genomic and Proteomic Analysis | 3 | Fall (even years) |
| 24 | GENETICS / HORT 550 | Molecular Approaches for Potential Crop Improvement | 3 | Spring |
| 26 | M M & I 740 | Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis | 3 | Fall |
| 27 | M M & I 750 | Host-Parasite Relationships in Vertebrate Viral Disease | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 31 | MICROBIO / BMOLCHEM 668 | Microbiology at Atomic Resolution | 3 | Spring (odd years) |
| 33 | BIOCHEM / NUTR SCI 619 | Advanced Nutrition: Intermediary Metabolism of Macronutrients | 3 | Spring |
| 34 | ONCOLOGY 675 | Advanced or Special Topics in Cancer Research | 1-3 | Fall/Spring |
| 36 | PATH 807 | Immunopathology: The Immune System in Health and Disease | 2 | Spring (even years) |
| 37 | PATH 751 | Cellular and Molecular Biology of Aging | 3 | Fall 2024 |
| 38 | PATH 803 | Pathogenesis of Major Human Disease | 3 | Fall |
| 39 | BOTANY / ENTOM / PL PATH 505 | Plant-Microbe Interactions: Molecular and Ecological Aspects | 3 | Spring |
| 40 | F&W ECOL / HORT / STAT 571* | Statistical Methods for Bioscience I | 4 | Fall |
| 41 | ZOOLOGY 604 | Computer-Based Gene and Disease/Disorder Research Lab | 2 | Spring |
| 43 | B M I / STAT 541* | Introduction to Biostatistics | 3 | Fall |
| 44 | M M & I 528 | Immunology | 3 | Fall |
| 45 | OPHTHALM 750 | Ocular Diseases of the Mammalian Vision System | 3 | Spring |
| 46 | B M I / COMP SCI 576 | Introduction to Bioinformatics | 3 | Fall |
| 47 | BIOCHEM 570 | Computational Modeling of Biological Systems | 3 | Spring |
| 48 | BIOCHEM / B M I / MATH / BMOLCHEM 609 | Mathematical Methods For Systems Biology | 3 | Spring (even years) |
| 49 | MICROBIO 657 | Bioinformatics for Microbiologists | 3 | Spring |
| 50 | NEURODPT / NTP / PSYCH 611 | Systems Neuroscience | 4 | Spring |
| 51 | ONCOLOGY 778 | Bioinformatics for Biologists | 3 | Spring |
| 52 | BOTANY 563 | Phylogenetic Analysis of Molecular Data | 3 | Spring |
| 53 | NTP 670 | Stem Cells and the Central Nervous System | 2-3 | Fall |
| 55 | M M & I 677 | Immune Systems Genomics | 1-3 | Fall |
| 56 | GENETICS / CHEM 626 | Genomic Science | 2 | Spring |
| 57 | NEURODPT 610 | Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience | 4 | Fall |
| 58 | MICROBIO 626 | Microbial and Cellular Metabolomics | 3 | Fall |
| 59 | CRB 670 | Biology of Heart Disease and Regeneration | 3 | Fall |
| Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Offered |