GBCH 601-Graduate Biochemistry

Fall 2005

Room 5150: W,F 8:30AM-10:30AM

Date

Day

Topic

Instructor

31-Aug

W

Life, Water, Buffers

Wimley

2-Sep

F

Thermodynamics and Energetics

Wimley

7-Sep

W

Amino acids; Protein primary and secondary structure

Wimley

9-Sep

F

Tertiary and Quaternary structure; Protein folds

Wimley

14-Sep

W

Globins, actin, myosin, antibodies

Wimley

16-Sep

F

Protein folding and stability; degradation and modification

Wimley

21-Sep

W

Protein analysis and purification; Determination of structure

Wimley

23-Sep

F

Lipids and Membranes; Membrane proteins

Wimley

28-Sep

W

Carbohydrate structure & conformational analysis

Li

30-Sep

F

Exam 1 (Wimley)

 

5-Oct

W

Structural analysis; Glycobiology  Ð proteoglycans

Li

7-Oct

F

Glycobiology Ð glycoproteins and glycosphingolipids

Li

12-Oct

W

Enzymatic Catalysis, Activation Energy, Catalytic Mechanisms

Vaccaro

14-Oct

F

Enzyme Kinetics

Vaccaro

19-Oct

W

Enzyme Kinetics

Vaccaro

21-Oct

F

Inhibition And Regulation

Vaccaro

26-Oct

W

Nucleotides, Nucleic Acid Structure

Nolan

28-Oct

F

Chromosome Structure, DNA Replication

Nolan

2-Nov

W

Exam 2

 

4-Nov

F

Mutation, DNA, Recombination

Nolan

9-Nov

W

Transcription

Nolan

11-Nov

F

Posttranscriptional Processing

Nolan

16-Nov

W

Translation

Nolan

18-Nov

F

Recombinant DNA

Nolan

23-Nov

W

Thanksgiving

 

25-Nov

F

Thanksgiving

 

30-Nov

W

Regulation Of Gene Expression

Nolan

2-Dec

F

Regulation Of Gene Expression

Nolan

7-Dec

W

Bioinformatics

Nolan

9-Dec

F

Exam 3

 

16-Dec

F

Exam Period 1:00PM (only if makeup day needed)

 

GBCH601web address: http://blackboard.tulane.edu/. Announcements will be made through that site. Access to blackboard via a valid Tulane email address is a course requirement.

Biochemistry Department web address: http://www.tulane.edu/~biochem. The copy of the syllabus at that site may not be updated.

TulaneÕs Emergency Information Page for notification of school closings http://emergency.tulane.edu

The textbook is Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry 4th Ed. by Nelson and Cox, in the Bookstore.

The Metabolism lectures formerly found in the 6-hour version of GBCH601 are now available in a separate 2-hour course, GBCH603-Metabolism, to be taught in the Spring Semester

Contact information:

Jim Nolan- Course Director

Dept. Biochemistry, room 6014

988-2453

jnolan@tulane.edu