Professor Karine Le Roch in the lab training a lab member.

Teaching

Teaching & training

Courses, undergraduate research, and the people the lab has trained.

This quarterFall 2026

CMDB 201

Molecular Biology - Graduate Level

Training

Teaching at every stage

Karine teaches molecular biology, cell biology and parasitology at UC Riverside, from lower-division lectures through graduate seminars. The lab trains at every stage alongside that.

Outcomes

Where people go next

Undergraduate

Former lab research assistant are now medical students or graduate students at top institution including Stanford, NYU, UCLA, UCSB.

Undergraduate research

Doctoral

Doctoral alumni have gone on to postdoctoral position such as UCLA, UCSD or to top Biotech companies

Doctoral study

Postdoctoral

Former Post-docs now lead their own labs at UT Health San Antonio, INRA or CNRS.

Postdoc positions

Courses taught

Undergraduate

BIOL 107A
Molecular Biology
BIOL 107B
Advanced Molecular Biology
BIOL 158
Medical Molecular Parasitology
The parasites that cause human disease, the life cycles that sustain them, and why the molecular biology of the host-parasite relationship makes them so hard to treat.
CBNS 101
Fundamentals of Cell Biology
CBNS 197
Introduction to Research for Undergraduates
One to six undergraduates work in the lab each year.

Graduate

CMDB 200
Molecular Cell Biology
MCBL 202
Microbial Pathogenesis and Physiology
MCBL 210
Microbial Genetics
MCBL 240
Functional Genomics

Guest lecture

Microarray Technologies · UC San Diego Extension