Fall 1998
Room 5001: M,W,F 8:30AM-10:30AM
Notice! Dr. Tou's first lecture:
Structure, properties, synthesis of fatty acids,
Will be repeated Monday, Nov. 30th at 8:30AM.
Date | Day | Topic | Instructor |
Sept. 2 | W | Earl's bluff | |
Sept. 4 | F | Amino acids; polypeptide primary, secondary structure | Landry |
Sept. 7 | M | Labor Day Holiday | |
Sept. 9 | W | Protein folding, stability, solubility, purification and analysis | Landry |
Sept. 11 | F | Protein interactions and chaperones | Landry |
Sept. 14 | M | Enzyme kinetics | Landry |
Sept. 16 | W | Enzyme inhibitors, allosteric enzymes | Landry |
Sept. 18 | F | Protein presentations (Homework assignment) | Landry |
Sept. 21 | M | Carbohydrate structure & conformational analysis | Li |
Sept. 23 | W | Structural analysis; proteoglycans; glycoproteins | Li |
Sept. 25*
rm 4001 |
F | Glycolipids, mucopolysaccharidoses | Li |
Sept. 28 | M | Glycobiology | Li |
Sept. 30 | W | Yom Kippur Holiday | |
Oct. 2 | F | EXAM 1 | |
Oct. 5 | M | Bioenergetics | Hamori |
Oct. 7 | W | Nucleotide synthesis and degradation | Stjernholm |
Oct. 9 | F | DNA structure/function, RNA structure/function | Hamori |
Oct. 12 | M | DNA replication | Hamori |
Oct. 14 | W | Chromosomal DNA organization | Hamori |
Oct. 16 | F | Mutation, repair, recombination | Karam |
Oct. 19 | M | Transcription | Karam |
Oct. 21 | W | Regulation of gene expression | Karam |
Oct. 23 | F | Regulation of gene expression | Karam |
Oct. 26 | M | Translation, ribozymes and processing | Nolan |
Oct. 28*
rm 5150 |
W | Recombinant DNA | Nolan |
Oct. 30 | F | Recombinant DNA | Nolan |
Nov. 2 | M | Molecular motors | Nolan |
Nov. 4 | W | EXAM 2 | |
Nov. 6 | F | Glycolysis, citric acid cycle | Stjernholm |
Nov. 9 | M | Oxidative phosphorylation, HMP-shunt | Stjernholm |
Nov. 11 | W | Glycogen, galactose and fructose metabolism | Stjernholm |
Nov. 13 | F | C(H20) regulation, uronic acid metabolism | Stjernholm |
Nov. 16 | M | Protein turnover, amino acid transport | Stjernholm |
Nov. 18 | W | NH3 metabolism, aromatic amino acid metab. | Stjernholm |
Nov. 20 | F | S-containing-amino acid metab., polyamines | Stjernholm |
Nov. 23 | M | Heme; bile pigments; branched amino acids | Stjernholm |
Nov. 25 | W | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
Nov. 27 | F | Thanksgiving Holiday | |
Nov. 30 | M | Structure, properties, synthesis of fatty acids | Tou |
Dec. 2 | W | Triacyl glycerol metabolism, fatty acid oxidation | Tou |
Dec. 4 | F | Phospholipids, signal transduction | Tou |
Dec. 7 | M | Eicosanoids, isoprenoids and cholesterol | Tou |
Dec. 9 | W | Steroids, lipoproteins and transport | Tou |
Dec. 16 | W | FINAL EXAM |
The suggested text is Biochemistry by Lubert Stryer, Fourth edition, available in the Bookstore. Lectures will be derived from a variety of sources, including the suggested textbook.
Contact information:
Jim Nolan- Course Director
Dept. Biochemistry
room 6053
jnolan@mailhost.tcs.tulane.edu
584-2453