MST 04S26 - The Immune System - Our Personal Super Hero
Course Description
The Immune System – Our Personal Super Hero (ONLINE)
Do you know what organisms live on your phone? The elevator’s buttons, the stairway rail? Our body is exposed daily to several invaders-some of them are dangerous and can cause serious illness. Regardless of the constant attacks on our body, we are rarely sick and if we are, it is rarely deadly. How is that possible?
This lecture will review ways the immune system identifies and fights invaders, discuss different types of vaccinations and what we can do nutritionally to keep it strong.
Fri. 4/10 2-3 pm ONLINE
Instructors: Dr. Amira Shaham-Albalancy and Dr. Shiva Davanloo Sessions: 1
Amira Shaham-Albalancy Ph.D., studied in the Animal Sciences Department of the Faculty of Agriculture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Albalancy moved to Texas from Israel in 2001 and started teaching at Collin College as associate faculty in 2004. She became a full-time faculty for Collin College in 2006 and teaches Human Anatomy and Physiology classes for science and non-science majors.
Shiva Davanloo has a Ph.D. in Nutrition Sciences from Texas Woman’s University and has been teaching nutrition courses, both undergraduate and graduate for over 20 years during which she supervised different thesis and dissertations, practiced dietetics, and has worked as the chair for the Clinical Nutrition department at her previous workplace. She has been a full-time professor with Collin College for the past 15 years.