Saturday, 16 April 2016

Honours degree or not?

Honours degree or not? The requirements for Honours differ by major, for official information please refer to the UBC Academic Calendar (http://www.calendar.ubc.ca/Vancouver/index.cfm?tree=12,215,410,404). What is an Honours (MICB) degree?  Essentially it is a way for the university to acknowledge your focus in your specialization...

MICB 401

MICB 401 (with Dr. Wade Bingle) Course Taken: Tuesday 12:30-2pm lecture, Wednesday 1-5pm lab Format: A typical lab course where you follow the directions in the lab manual. Make sure you have half an hour to go into the lab the day before and after your lab period to set up bacteria cultures/ wrap up an experiment (or have a really...

Friday, 15 April 2016

MICB 448/449

MICB 448/449 (Directed Studies/ Honours Thesis) Course Taken: September 2015 - April 2016 Class Average for MICB 449: 95% (Note: there were only 5 students taking the course) Format: Self-directed project...

MICB 406

MICB 406 (with Dr. Francois Jean, Dr. Marc Horwitz) Course Taken: T/Th 11-12:30pm (January 2016 - April 2016) Format: Dr. Jean lectures half the term, then Dr. Horwitz lectures the end. The goal of this course is to write a paper about viruses in the style of PLoS Pathogens PEARLS (http://collections.plos.org/s/pearls) for each...