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• Investigating Viruses

• Overview of viruses
• Prevalent viral diseases
• Elements of the immune system
• Immune response to viral infections
• Measuring antibody levels
• Viral antigen characterization using Western Immunoblot
  
  
  

• Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Pathogenesis of bacterial diseases
• Parasitology
• Immune response to bacterial and parasite infections
• Characterization and identification of bacteria
• Research approaches in the area of infectious diseases
• Raising antibodies
  
  

• Vaccines

• Current research in vaccine development
• Newly developed vaccines
• Vaccination regimes
• Isolation and separation of T & B cells
• Measuring the adaptive immune response
  
  
  

• Immunological Approach to Oncology

• Combination therapy, photo-immunotherapy, immunotherapy
• BrDU antibody staining
• Immune response in cancer
• Mini project A: FACS analysis of cell surface markers
• Mini project B: Characterization of cell markers by immunoprecipatation
  
  
  

• Disorders of the Immune System

• Autoimmune diseases
• Hypersensitivity reactions
• Immunotherapy
  
  
  

• Critical Review of Current Topics

• Literature searching and review
• Analysis of published research papers
  
  

• Applied Molecular Microbiology

• Antimicrobial therapy
• Plasmid and chromosomal analysis
• Polymerase chain reaction
  

Last updated on 5 June 2009 by Chew See Ling