Research Opportunities for Graduate Students

Students interested in performing research for PreMiEr should contact relevant faculty directly.

Courses relevant to PreMiEr offered by ERC faculty and/or recommended by PreMiEr scholars

(* indicates taught by PreMiEr faculty)

(Listed courses may not be currently offered)

* Duke University

  • BME 574 – Gene Circuits (You) – Graduate
  •  CBB 520 – Genome Tools and Technologies (Dietrich) – Graduate
  • CEE 560 – Environmental Transport Phenomena (Wiesner) – Graduate and undergraduate
  • CEE 562 – Biological Processes in Environmental Engineering (Deshusses) – Graduate and undergraduate
  • CEE 564 – Physical Chemical Processes in Environmental Engineering (Wiesner) – Graduate and undergraduate
  • CEE 566 – Environmental Microbiology (Gunsch) – Graduate
  • CEE 661L/BME 565L – Environmental Molecular Biotechnology (Gunsch) – Graduate and undergraduate
  • CEE 690 – Modeling Environmental, Chemical, Biological, and Energy Processes (Deshusses) – Graduate
  • CEE 690-06 – Sensors (Manufacturing and Design) (Jones) – Graduate
  • * CEE 690-08 – Microbial community ‘omics (Delgado Vela) – Graduate
  •  ENVIRON 750 – Genomics of Microbial Diversity (Wernegreen) – Graduate
  • MGM 582 – Microbial Pathogenesis (Rawls) – Graduate
  • MGM 720 – Computational Methods in NGS (Dietrich) – Graduate and undergraduate
  • UPGEN 778 – Exploring the Microbiome (Rawls) – Graduate

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University

  • BIOL 221 – General Microbiology (Thomas) – Undergradute
  • BIOL 325 – Evolutionary Biology (Graves) – Undergraduate
  • BIOL 685 – Pharmaceutical Development (Graves) – Graduate
  • * BIOL 703 – Experimental Biology (Newman) – Graduate
  • BIOL 720 – Environmental Influences on Human Diseases (Obeng-Gyasi) – Graduate
  • BIOL 730 – Evolutionary Medicine (Graves) – Graduate
  • BIOL 749 – Recent advances in Cell Biology (Muganda) – Graduate
  • * BIOL 830 – Advanced Techniques in Integrative Bioscience Research (Newman) – Graduate
  • BIOL 833 – Recent Advances in Immunology (Jeffers-Francis) – Graduate
  • BIOL 852 – Microbial Pathogenesis (Thomas) – Graduate
  • BIOL 855 – Systems Biology (Muganda) – Graduate
  • BMEN 712 – Research Methods for Bioengineering (Jiang) – Graduate
  • * CSE 620 – Introduction to Computational Software Tools (Rhinehardt) – Graduate
  • STAT 824  – Biostatistics and Health Analytics (Kim) – Graduate

North Carolina State University

  • BIT 495/595 – Microbiomes: From sampling to community analysis (Raymann) – Undergraduate and graduate
  • BIT 501 – Bioethics (Dums) – Undergraduate and graduate
  • * CHE 452 – Biomolecular Engineering (Crook) – Undergraduate
  • GES/COM 508 – Emerging Technologies and Society (Delborne, Goodwin) – Graduate
  • GGS 771 – Data Science for Genetics and Genomics (Callahan) – Graduate
  • PA 552 – Science and Technology Policy (Kuzma) – Graduate

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  • ENEC 395 – Independent Research in Environmental Science (Noble) – Undergraduate
  • ENEC 471 – Human Impacts on Estuarine Systems (Noble) – Undergraduate
  • * ENVR 205 – Engineering Tools for Environmental Problem Solving (Turpin) – Undergradute
  • ENVR 400 – Environmental Sciences and Engineering Seminar Series (various) – Graduate
  • * ENVR 421 – Environmental Health Microbiology (Brown) – Graduate and undergraduate
  • ENVR 601 – Epidemiology for Environmental Scientists and Engineers (Brown) – Graduate
  • ENVR 685 – Water Policy in Low-Developing Countries (Whittington) – Graduate
  • ENVR 704 – Critical Analysis of Environmental Research (Turpin) – Graduate
  • ENVR 705 – One Health (Stewart) – Graduate
  • EPID 755 – Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Powers) – Graduate
  • MASC 447 – Microbial Ecological Genomics (Gifford) – Graduate and undergraduate

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  • BINF 6200 – Statistics for Bioinformatics – Graduate
  • BINF 6201 – Molecular Sequence Analysis – Graduate
  • BINF 6203 – Genomics – Graduate
  • BINF 6210  – Machines Learning for Bioinformatics – Graduate
  • BINF 6211 – Design and Implementation of Bioinformatics Databases – Graduate
  • BINF 6310 – Advanced Statistics for Genomics – Graduate
  • * BINF 6380 – Advanced Bioinformatics Programming (Fodor) – Graduate
  • BINF 8203 – Genomics (Gibas) – Graduate
  • BINF 8205 – Computational Molecular Evolution – Graduate
  • BIOL 3144 – Microbial Ecology (Redmond) – Graduate and undergraduate
  • GRAD 8302 – Responsible Conduct of Research – Graduate
  • GRAD 8340 – Data Presentation (Goodliffe) – Graduate