Syllabus

Structure and Function of Biomolecules (GBCH 722) 
Spring 2006

Last modified 3/16/2006

Course Director: Dr. Landry


Rm. 6055
landry@tulane.edu

Location: JBJ, Conference room between rooms 538 and 527
1-3 pm Mon./Wed.

 

January

18

Wed.


Cancelled

 

23

Mon.

 Wimley

Protein Folding - Thermodynamics

 

25

Wed.

 

Fluorescence and Circular Dichroism

 

30

Mon.


Macromolecule-ligand Binding

February

1

Wed.

Amnon Horovitz (DVD)

Allostery, Kinetics, and Phi-values

 

6

Mon.

Landry

Protein Folding - Kinetics,

Peptide Structural Analysis [link to assignment]

 

8

Wed.

 Marcia Newcomer  (DVD)

X-ray Crystallography

 

13

Mon.


X-ray Crystallography

 

15

Wed.


X-ray Crystallography

 

20

Mon.


X-ray Crystallography

 

22

Wed

 

First Draft of Graphics Project Due

 

27

Mon.

 

Mardi Gras Break

March

1

Wed.

 

Mardi Gras Break

 

6

Mon.

Landry

NMR


7
Tue.
Newcomer
Q and A on X-ray Crystallography

 

8

Wed.


NMR Resonance Assignment

 

13

Mon.


NMR Relaxation Processes

 

15

Wed.


2D H-NMR and Sequential Assignment

 

20

Mon.

 

Visit CAMD facility in Baton Rouge

 

22

Wed.


Peptide/Protein Structural Analysis

 

27

Mon.

Exam I


 

29

Wed.

 

DNA Structure [Tutorials Page]
RNA Structure [Tutorials Page]

April

3

Mon.

 

DNA-Protein Interactions [Tutorials Page]
RNA-Protein Interactions [Tutorials Page]

 

5

Wed.

Bishop

Overview of Molecular Modeling

 

10

Mon.

 

Simulation workshop - MD Structure manipulation

 

12

Wed.

Li

Basic Carbohydrate Chemistry

 

17

Mon.

 

Spring Break

 

19

Wed.

 

Conformational Analysis of Pyranose Ring

 

24

Mon.

 

Structure and Function of Glycoconjugates

 

26

Wed.

 

Biosynthesis and Degradation of Glycoconjugates

May

1

Mon.

Final Exam

 

 

3

Wed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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