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About the Course

Course 1 of a four course specialization called Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B-cell Function. Each course in the specialization presents material that builds on the previous course's material. This is the first leg of a four-part journey through the defenses your body uses to keep you healthy. In this part, we hope to give you the vocabulary and concepts you need to interact with the medical community and provide them with a context that makes them memorable. Fundamentals of Immunology: Innate Immunity and B-cell Function introduces students to the basic functions of the adaptive and innate immune systems. The early lectures survey cells, tissues, and organs using metaphors, cartoons, and models to improve understanding and retention. After describing the form, function, origin, and varieties of antibodies, subsequent lectures provide details on the mechanism of the generation of variation. The course provides animations of gene rearrangement and class switching and descriptions of affinity maturation correlated with detailed physical models of antibody structure. The final lecture reviews these concepts in an anatomical context. Testing employs multiple choice questions testing facts, concepts, and application of principles. Questions may refer to diagrams, drawings, and photographs used in the lecture and reproduced in the outline. What You’ll Learn: The difference between adaptive and innate immune systems, the characteristics of various pathogens that they protect you from, and the overall strategies employed in this protection. The detailed structure of antibodies and related immunoglobulin receptors, the characteristics and function of the different antibody classes, and the mechanism for producing both the recognition regions and stem regions.  Finally, how these structures are coded for in the DNA and expressed in the B cells....

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BJ

Dec 9, 2020

This course is highly recommended as it opens the innate conceptualization of the fundamentals of Immunology. Excellent delivery from the Rice University management team,

ZF

Mar 26, 2020

I'm a Biology student, It's an amazing professor, excellent explanation with clarity the question, Highly recommend, If you have interest do join now, I'm going to the second course.

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By Kaeli

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Jan 11, 2021

You’ll learn a lot so buckle up! She keeps it interesting though and explains things very concisely.

By Havian D

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Aug 22, 2020

I really felt a lot of improvements and I hope I can improve my studies after joining this lecture

By Juan F C B

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Nov 21, 2022

Awesome course! Loved the lectures, the professor is excellent she knows a lot and loves teaching

By MARIA D C C R

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Jul 26, 2021

Es un gran curso, bastante completo y con todos los elementos para seguir estudiando y avanzando

By Gurumanickam

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Jun 1, 2021

Wonderful course regarding B-Cell function. I gave me a larger perspective about human immunity

By Patricia C B

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Aug 31, 2020

Excelent. Congratulations. I have learned a lot. Very organized lectures, tests and handout.

By Urmila H P

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Aug 5, 2020

It was very helpful for me . I learnt about different immunological funtion for this course.

By Juliana T

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Apr 11, 2021

Professor Alma is great! I really enjoyed her classes! I have learned more than I expected.

By Natalia V

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Sep 28, 2020

All tthe materials that given is nice and good! I learned a lot from this course, thankyou.

By Julie B

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Feb 2, 2024

Good introduction to immunology for someone with some molecular and cell biology knowledge

By Ioannis P

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Feb 18, 2021

Just an excellent fully detailed and something more than complete course about Immunology.

By Wuttipong P

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Dec 7, 2020

Excellent class to learn about the immune function which can be used in academic research

By Ludys O O

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Jun 22, 2020

EXCELENTE Y FELICITACIONES, LA ORIENTADORA FUE VITAL EN EL PROCESO DE APRENDIZAJE

GRACIAS

By Lenize A C

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May 6, 2020

Curso maravilhoso com materiais excelentes e uma professora super didática e carismática!

By Wageh M A

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Mar 8, 2023

thanks for your efforts and thanks for your time I hope to enroll in other courses soon

By Massiel R

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Feb 9, 2021

Just amazing I loved the teacher and her creative ability to teach such a dense subject.

By Marina P

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May 8, 2020

Great teacher and the structure of the course!! For the, the best out of three offered!

By abirami s

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Apr 30, 2020

it is an elaborated , tailor made course for me to know what exactly immunology means

By Jay P

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Jun 29, 2020

Dr. Novotny is a wonderful professor that I wish I had as a teacher in my university.

By CASTILLO V L

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Nov 4, 2021

Amazingly good course, starting in the immunology world and this couldn't be better.

By Ayush J

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Jan 22, 2021

Excellent and entertaining course with lots of knowledge in a well-structured manner

By Dr. I K

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Jun 5, 2020

Excellent course on Immunology. Everything is explained down to the molecular level.

By Amish P

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Sep 8, 2025

very comprehensive. Tests your knowledge of what you learned, and how to apply it.

By Sikandar K

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Apr 12, 2020

It is so good providing us the basic knowledge about this. Boosting our confidence

By Sandra E C R d F

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Sep 22, 2020

The professor is so great. She is wonderful. Thanks for all immunology teachings.