From Antibiotics to Zoology, a comprehensive look at all the course offerings in the biology program.
From Antibiotics to Zoology, a comprehensive look at all the course offerings in the biology program.
*FYS (First-Year Seminar); SOPH (Sophomore Seminar); LAB (Lab or Field Trip Course); WRIT (designated-course offering considered to fulfill the writing requirement); CONF (discussion group in addition to primary course section); COEX (engages students in addressing a research question or knowledge gap of interest to scholarly communities).
Courses that are unavailable in the current academic year but offered in alternate years have been italicized and noted.
| BANNER NUMBER | COURSE TITLE | PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR | *FYS/SOPH SEM/LAB/ WRIT/CONF/COEX | ONLINE/HYBRID/REMOTE ACCESSABLE |
| 0800 | Principles of Physiology | Smith, Andrea | LAB | Online |
| 1000 | Quality Improvement Science and Application | Monteiro, Kristina | Online | |
| 1455 | Planetary Health: Global Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Disease | Smith, Katherine | Online **Inactive Summer 2025 | |
| 1855 | Tropical Medicine & Neglected Tropical Diseases | Martin, Kyle | Online |
| BANNER NUMBER | COURSE TITLE | PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR | *FYS/SOPH SEM/LAB/ WRIT/CONF/COEX | ONLINE/HYBRID/REMOTE ACCESSIBLE |
| BIOL XLIST: NEUR 1530 | Communication In the Brain: What We Know and How We Know It | O'Connor-Giles, Kate | **Inactive Fall 2025 | |
| 0170 | Biotechnology in Medicine | Achilli, Toni Marie | CONF | |
| 0190 | Foundations: Phage Hunters | Zhou, Yang | FYS/LAB/COEX | |
| 0190F | Foundations: Darwinian Medicine | Tatar, Marc | FYS | |
| 0190P | Pride & Prejudice in the Development of Scientific Theories | Helfand, Stephen | FYS | |
| 0200 | The Foundations of Living Systems | Holmes, Will/Stein, John | LAB | |
| 0210 | Diversity of Life | Kellner, James | ||
| 0220 | Discovering Novel Protein Folding Phenotypes of Wild Yeast | Holmes, Will | COEX/LAB | |
| 0380 | The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease | TBD | CONF | |
| 0410 | Invertebrate Zoology | Ewanchuk, Patrick | LAB | |
| 0470 | Genetics | Johnson, Mark/Larschan, Erica/Reenan, Robert/Hall, Jody | LAB | |
| 0480 | Evolutionary Biology | TBD | CONF | S02-Online |
| 0530 | Principles of Immunology | Dugan, Aisling | CONF | |
| 0940A | Viral Epidemics | Atwood, Walter | SOPH SEM/WRIT | |
| 0940D | Rhode Island Flora: Understanding and Documenting Local Plant Diversity | Kartzinel, Rebecca | SOPH SEM/LAB | |
| 0946 | Research Design + Quantitative Methods for the Health Sciences | Monteiro, Kristina | ||
| 0960 | Independent Study in Science Writing | Faculty Advisors | ||
| 1050, 2050 | Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell (Grad students register for 2050) | Toth, Chuck | CONF/WRIT | |
| 1070 | Biotechnology and Global Health | Schell, Jacquelyn | ||
| 1090 | Polymer Science for Biomaterials | Mathiowitz, Edith | LAB | Offered every other year |
| 1100 | Cell Physiology and Biophysics | Zimmerman, Anita | ||
| 1110, 2220 | Signal Transduction | Oancea, Elena | ||
| 1140 | Tissue Engineering | Hoffman-Kim, Diane | **Inactive Fall 2025 | |
| 1160 | Principles of Exercise Physiology | Smith, Andrea | ||
| 1222A/2222B | Current Topics in Functional Genomics | Larschan, Erica/Silva-Garcia, Carolos Giovanni | ||
| 1260, 2260 | Physiological Pharmacology (Grad students register for 2260) | Marshall, John | S02-Online | |
| 1270, 2270 | Advanced Biochemistry (Grad students register for 2270) | Salomon, Arthur/Alfonzo, Juan | ||
| 1290 | Cancer Biology | Zhitkovich, Anatoly | **Inactive Fall 2025 | |
| 1300, 2300 | Biomolecular Interactions (Grad students register for 2300) | Fawzi, Nicolas | WRIT | |
| 1310, 2310 | Developmental Biology (Grad students register for 2310) | Wharton, Kristi | LAB (undergrad level only) | **Inactive Fall 2025 |
| 1430 | Population Biology | Weinreich, Daniel | Offered every other year | |
| 1465 | Human Population Genomics | Huerta-Sanchez, Emilia | WRIT | Offered every other year |
| 1470 | Conservation Biology | Sax, Dov | ||
| 1515, 2015 | Conservation in the Genomics Age | Kartzinel, Tyler | LAB/COEX/WRIT | *Offered every other year **Inactive Fall 2025 |
| 1520 | Innate Immunity | Brossay, Laurent | ||
| 1535, 2535 | Survey of Biomedical Informatics | Sarker, Neil | ||
| 1560, 2560 | Virology (Grad students register for 2560 Advanced Virology) | Jamieson, Amanda | ||
| 1575, 2075 | Evaluation of Health Information Systems | Fraser, Hamish | WRIT | |
| 1630/NEUR 1630 | Big Data Neuroscience Lab | Fleischmann, Alexander | LAB | **Inactive Fall 2025 |
| 1650/NEUR 1650 | Structure of the Nervous System | Berson, David | LAB | |
| 1945 | Outbreaks and Infections: Harnessing History and Preventing Future Epidemics | Dugan, Aisling | ||
| 1950 | Directed Research/Independent Study - See Research | Faculty Advisors | LAB | |
| 1970A | Stem Cell Biology | Freiman, Richard | ||
| 2010A | Introduction to Molecular Research in the Life Sciences | Accornero, Federica | ||
| 2020 | Biotechnology Science and Industry | Huang, Eric | ||
| 2024 | Gene and RNA Theraputic Development | TBD | ||
| 2025 | Foundations in Statistics for Biology and Medicine | TBD | ||
| 2030 | Foundations for Advanced Study in the Life Sciences | Jogl, Gerwald/Lizarraga, Sofia | ||
| 2089 | Biotechnology IP | Holmander, Daniel/Morgan, Jeff | ||
| 2110 | Drug and Gene Delivery | Mathiowitz, Edith | *Offered every other year **Inactive Fall 2025 | |
| 2150 | Scientific Communication | S01: Reenan, Robert; S02: Ramachandran, Sohini | ||
| 2180 | Experiential Learning Industry (ELI) | Schell, Jacquelyn | ||
| 2230 | Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Seminar | Darling, Eric | ||
| 2250 | Survey of Modern Therapeutics | TBD | ||
| 2430 | Topics in EEB | Green, Patrick | ||
| 2520 | Acculturation to Health | Leviss, Jonathan/Wisco, Oliver | ||
| 2860 | Molecular Mechanisms of Human Disease | Bartnikas, Thomas |
| BANNER NUMBER | COURSE TITLE | PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR | *FYS/SOPH SEM/LAB/ WRIT/CONF/COEX | ONLINE/HYBRID/REMOTE ACCESSABLE |
| 0940G | Antibiotic Drug Discovery: Identifying Novel Soil Microbes to Combat Antibiotic Resistance | Achilli, Toni-Marie | COEX/LAB | Hybrid |
| 1000 | Quality Improvement Science and Application | Monteiro, Kristina | Online | |
| 1445 | Medicine in Austere Settings | Martin, Kyle Denison | Online | |
| 1455 | Planetary Health: Global Environmental Change and Emerging Infectious Disease | Smith, Katherine | Online |
| BANNER NUMBER | COURSE TITLE | PRIMARY INSTRUCTOR | *FYS/SOPH SEM/LAB/ WRIT/CONF/COEX | ONLINE/HYBRID/REMOTE ACCESSABLE |
| BIOL XLIST: ENVS 0490 | Environmental Science in a Changing World | Kartzinel, Tyler | **Inactive Spring 2026 | |
| 0080 | Biotechnology Management | Bready, Barrett | ||
| 0100 | Living Biology at Brown & Beyond | Monteiro, Kristina/Hall, Jody | FYS/LAB | |
| 0280 | Biochemistry | Holmes, William/Jogl, Gerwald/Lisi, George | CONF | |
| 0285 | Inquiry in Biochemistry: From Gene to Protein Function | Holmes, William/Cleveland, Kelly | LAB/CONF/COEX/WRIT | |
| 0420 | Principles of Ecology | Caves, Eleanor | CONF | |
| 0430 | Evolution of Plant Diversity | Kartzinel, Rebecca | LAB | *L03 - Online **Inactive Spring 2026 |
| 0440 | Inquiry in Plant Biology: Analysis of Plant Growth, Reproduction and Adaptive Responses | Delong, Alison/Johnson, Mark | LAB | *Offered every other year **Inactive Spring 2026 |
| 0450 | Evolutionary Behavioral Ecology | Caves, Eleanor | *Offered every other year **Inactive Spring 2026 | |
| 0495 | Statistical Analysis of Biological Data | Ramachandran, Sohini | CONF | |
| 0500 | Cell and Molecular Biology | Mowry, Kimberly/Silva-Garcia, Carlos Giovanni/Lizarraga, Sofia | ||
| 0510 | Introductory Microbiology | Dugan, Aisling | LAB | |
| 0610 | Modeling Human Disease Using Stem Cells | Toth, Chuck | COEX/LAB | |
| 0620 | Fermentation to publication: Experimental food microbiology | Belenky, Peter | COEX/LAB | |
| 0800 | Principles of Physiology | Stein, John/Smith, Andrea | LAB | S02 - Hybrid; S03 - Online |
| 0960 | Independent Study in Science Writing | Faculty Advisors | ||
| 1040, 2040 | Ultrastructure/Bioimaging | Williams, Geoffrey | LAB | |
| 1120 | Biomaterials | TBD | **Inactive Spring 2026 | |
| 1150 | Stem Cell Engineering | Darling, Eric | LAB/WRIT | |
| 1155 | Hormones and Behavior | Fuxjager, Matt | Offered every other year | |
| 1222A/2222B | Current Topics in Functional Genomics | Fairbrother, William | **Inactive Spring 2026 | |
| 1250 | Host-microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease | Belenky, Peter/Vaishnava, Shipra | ||
| 1295 | Fundamentals of Cancer Immunotherapy | Lawler, Sean | ||
| 1330 | Biology of Reproduction | Wessel, Gary | ||
| 1435 | Computational Methods for Studying Demographic History with Molecular Data | Huerta-Sanchez, Emilia | ||
| 1505 | Environmental Physiology | Fuxjager, Matthew | **Inactive Spring 2026 | |
| 1525, 2525 | Pathogenomics: Analysis, interpretation and applications of microbial genomes (Grad students register for 2525) | Cuomo, Christina/Siddle, Katherine | CONF | |
| 1530 | Emergency Medical Systems: An Anatomy of Critical Performance | Becker, Bruce/Pulvino, Christa | ||
| 1540, 2540 | Molecular Genetics (Grad students register for 2540) | Huang, Yu-Wen Alvin | ||
| 1545, 2545 | Human Genetics and Genomics (Grad students register for 2545) | Morrow, Eric | **Inactive Spring 2026 | |
| 1550 | Parasitism: Biology and Disease | deGraffenried, Chris | ||
| 1555, 2555 | Methods in Biomedical Informatics (Grad students register for 2555) | Sarker, Neil/Chen, Elizabeth | COEX | |
| 1580 | Metabolism Across Biological Scales: Integrative Physiology and Pathobiology | Chellappa, Karthikeyani | ||
| 1600 | Development of Vaccines to Infectious Diseases | Vaishnava, Shipra/Beura, Lalit | ||
| 1610/NEUR 1600 | Experimental Neurobiology | Stein, John | LAB | |
| 1810 | 21st Century Applications in Cell and Molecular Biology | Dawson, Michelle | WRIT | |
| 1820 | Environmental Health and Disease | TBD | ||
| 1840 | Epigenetics in Health and Disease | Martinez Moreno, Margot | ||
| 1865, 2865 | Toxicology (Grad students register for 2865) | Spade, Daniel | ||
| 1885 | Human Anatomy and Biomechanics | Swartz, Sharon/Brainerd, Beth | LAB | |
| 1960 | Directed Research/Independent Study - See Research | Faculty Advisors | ||
| 2000C | Molecular Recognition and Signaling in Self and Non-self Interactions | Delong, Alison/Johnson, Mark | Offered every other year | |
| 2010B | Introduction to Data Science in Molecular Biology | Neretti, Nicola | ||
| 2018 | Management Strategies in Biotechnology | Jong, Yong | ||
| 2078 | Regulatory Affairs in Pharma, Med Device and Digital Health | DiNardo, Robin | ||
| 2135 | Pharmacokinetics and Drug Design | Christian, Donald | ||
| 2145 | Molecular Targets of Drug Discovery | Horrigan, Diana | ||
| 2167 | In Vitro Models for Disease | Schell, Jacquelyn | ||
| 2170 | Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology | Horrigan, Diana | ||
| 2180 | Experiential Learning Industry (ELI) | Schell, Jacquelyn | ||
| 2240 | Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology Seminar | Morgan, Jeffrey/Mathiowitz, Edith | ||
| 2350 | The Biology of Aging | Tatar, Marc/Neretti, Nicola | ||
| 2440 | Topics in Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology | Fuxjager, Matthew | ||
| 2528 | Innovation and Commercialization in Medical Devices, Diagnostics, and Wearables | Analoui, Mostafa | ||
| 2610 | Trends in Health Informatics | TBD | ||
| 2660 | Practicum in Health Informatics | Chen, Elizabeth |