{"id":15736,"date":"2024-06-12T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T20:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=15736"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:41","slug":"biol3902-the-biology-of-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2024\/biol3902-the-biology-of-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"BIOL3902 &#8211; The Biology of Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        BIOL3902 &#8211; The Biology of Pandemics\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/PandemicBiology-Ad-2025-2.pdf\">Pandemic Biology-Course Info<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Description:&nbsp;<\/strong> <span class=\"fontstyle0\">Pandemics have shaped the course of human history, often with profound and transformative impacts on society. Historical records of pandemics date back to at least 430 BCE with the Plague of Athens, which struck Athens during the Peloponnesian war. The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic serves as a reminder of the ongoing threats posed by infectious disease. There is thus plenty of incentive to understand and predict pandemics, and to develop interventions to mitigate their effects. In this course, we will explore the molecular, epidemiological, ecological, and evolutionary processes underlying the rapid spread of infectious diseases.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span class=\"fontstyle0\">Schedule: <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"fontstyle1\">Fall semester, Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:00 &#8211; 11:30AM<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"fontstyle0\"><strong>Instructor:<\/strong> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/alex-wong\/\"><span class=\"fontstyle1\">Alex Wong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pandemic Biology-Course Info Course Description:&nbsp; Pandemics have shaped the course of human history, often with profound and transformative impacts on society. Historical records of pandemics date back to at least 430 BCE with the Plague of Athens, which struck Athens during the Peloponnesian war. The global SARS-CoV-2 pandemic serves as a reminder of the ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-undergrad-opportunities"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15736"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15750,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15736\/revisions\/15750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}