Courses Offered

Last Updated: September 13, 2023

Bioinformatics Lab.

Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hours
Major: 12 credits (6 credits of core + 6 credits of optional)
MBB 601	Plant Molecular Biology*	3+0
MBB 602	Plant Genome Engineering*	3+0
MBB 603	Plant Omics and Molecular Breeding	3+0
MBB 604	Commercial Plant Tissue Culture	2+0
MBB 605	Plant Microbe interaction#	2+0
MBB 606	RNA Biology#	1+0
MBB 607	Plant Hormones and Signaling#	2+0
MBB 608	Computational and Statistical tools in Biotechnology#	2+1
Any other appropriate 500 series courses
Minor (6 credits) from any of the following disciplines
	Biochemistry Genetics and Plant Breeding Microbiology Plant Physiology Plant Pathology Entomology Bioinformatics Plant Genetic Resources Any other related discipline
Supporting (5 credits) from the following disciplines
	Biochemistry Genetics and Plant Breeding Microbiology Bioinformatics Computer Applications Statistics
	Common courses	-
MBB	Seminar I	0+1
MBB	Seminar II	0+1
MBB 600	Research	0+75
	Total	100

*CORE COURSE; #NEW COURSES

M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology

Course Code		Course Title	Credit Hours
Major: 20 credits (12 credits of core + 8 credits of optional)
MBB 501	Principles of Biotechnology		3+0
MBB 502	Fundamentals of Molecular Biology*		3+0
MBB 503	Molecular Cell Biology*		3+0
MBB 504	Techniques in Molecular Biology I*		0+3
MBB 505	Omics and Systems Biology*		2+1
MBB 506	Plant Genetic Engineering		3+0
MBB 507	Techniques in Molecular Biology II		0+3
MBB 508	Introduction to Bioinformatics		2+1
MBB 509	Plant Tissue culture		2+1
MBB 510	Microbial and Industrial Biotechnology		2+1
MBB 511	Molecular Plant Breeding		2+1
MBB 512	IPR, Bio-safety and Bioethics		2+0
MBB 513	Immunology and Molecular Diagnostics		3+0
MBB 514	Nano Biotechnology		2+1
MBB 515	Environmental Biotechnology		3+0
MBB 516	Bio-entrepreneurship#		1+0
MBB 517	Stress Biology and Genomics#		2+0
MBB 518	Gene Regulation#		2+0

Minor (8 credits) – from one of the related disciplines
	Biochemistry Genetics and Plant Breeding Microbiology Plant Physiology Plant Pathology Entomology Bioinformatics Plant Genetic Resources Any other related discipline
	Basic Supporting (6 credits) from the following disciplines
	Biochemistry Microbiology Genetics and Plant Breeding Statistics Bioinformatics Computer Applications
	Common courses	5
MBB	Seminar	0+1
MBB500	Research	0+30
	Total	70

*CORE COURSE; #NEW COURSES

Under Graduate Courses

Course Code	Course Title	Credit Hours
Biotech. 231	Fundamentals of Plant Biotechnology	2(1+1)
Biotech. 362	Micro propagation Technologies (Elective)	3(1+2)
	TOTAL	5