IPAK-EDU
Syllabus – The Biology of the Immune System
FALL 2024
Instructor: James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
Live class meetings: Thursday @ 1PM ET via Zoom
If you miss a class, don’t worry. Lecture videos will be available after each class.
Recommended Books:
Soumpayrac, L. 2019. How the Immune System Works, Sixth Ed. John Wiley & Sons www.wiley.com/go/sompayrac
Mahmoudi, Massoud. Immunology Made Ridiculously Simple.
Course description: In a series of live online presentations and discussions, students will learn the fundamentals of the biology of the immune system and become well-informed and primed for discussions in the public sphere.There will be recommended readings, additional recommended videos, recommended books.There are no quizzes or exams. Students are encouraged to think of questions during each lecture to be ready to facilitate the live discussion after each lecture.
Lecture Schedule Topics (15 or 16 lectures in total, tentative, subject to change)