Microbiology and Immunology

Students from the Microbiology Co-op Program are based out of an academic Department which has been internationally recognized for its many contributions in microbiology, molecular biology and immunology.

Our students experience the most up-to-date molecular approaches to the study of problems in microbiology and immunology, biochemistry, as well as structural and molecular biology. Programs within Microbiology & Immunology allow students to select courses ranging from:

• Biotechnology
• Molecular microbiology
• Environmental microbiology
• Bioinformatics
• Immunology
• Virology
• Pathogenic microbiology

Sample skill sets

• Environmental microbial sampling
• Aseptic technique, pipetting, reagent and medium  media preparation
• Culture of bacteria and mammalian cells, cell counting via hemocytometer, cell stimulation
• Slide preparations, Gram staining technique, immunofluorescent staining
• Compound, phase contrast, and immunofluorescent microscopy
• Bacterial identification and numeration via metabolic and biochemical testing and DNA sequence analysis
• Transformation and Transfection
• Plasmid preparation and isolation
• ELISA, PCR, agarose gel electrophoresis, ligation, qPCR
• SDS-PAGE and Western blots
• Introduction to flow cytometry acquisition and analysis
• Quantitative and qualitative sampling techniques