526-304 Principles of Immunology

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

At least 31.25 points of theory and 12.5 points of practical 200-level subjects from microbiology and immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology, pathology, physiology, anatomy, cell biology or genetics.

For BBiomedSc students, biochemistry and molecular biology 521-213 plus physiology 536-250.

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

By the completion of the course the students should understand and be able to describe:

• the development, function and regulation of cells of the immune system;

• the relationship between structure and function of antibodies;

• the molecular basis of cell interactions in the immune response; and

• the basis of immune mechanisms underlying immunity to infection and autoimmune disease, hypersensitivity reactions, immunodeficiency diseases and transplant and tumour rejection.

The course will include coverage of the development, function and regulation of cells of the immune system; immunoglobulins; cytokines; immunological mechanisms operating in immunity to infectious disease; autoimmunity; hypersensitivity; and transplantation and tumour immunology.

Assessment

A 3-hour end-of-semester written examination.

Prescribed Texts

• I Roitt et al, Immunology. 5th ed., 1999.
  or
  C A Janeway and P Travers, Immunobiology. 4th ed.
  or
  A K Abbas et al, Cellular and Molecular Immunology. 4th ed.