MIMG 109BLAdvanced Research Analysis in Microbiology
Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Limited to Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics premajors and majors. Designed to provide students authentic, discovery-based research experience in life sciences. Investigation to be primarily computational in nature whereby students use bioinformatics or mathematical modeling software to interpret, expand, or refine datasets. Use of graphics software to prepare figures and illustrations for presentations, posters, reports, and websites (database entries). Research accomplishments discussed in weekly seminar-style meetings in which student groups create PowerPoint slides and formally present results to class. Production of team poster and final report describing entire research project required.
Letter grading.
When it runs
- Fall 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: course 109AL, Life Sciences 40 or Statistics 13.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MIMG 109BL
- MIMG 109ALResearch Immersion Laboratory in Microbiology
- MIMG 101Introductory Microbiology
- LIFESCI 7ACell and Molecular Biology
- LIFESCI 7BGenetics, Evolution, and Ecology
- LIFESCI 40Statistics of Biological Systems
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
3 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 10 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.