BIOL 710 Recent Advances in Protein Biochemistry
This course aims to introduce students to advances in contemporary protein biochemistry. Starting with an overview of protein biochemistry, it will proceed to cover large scale proteomics and how it can be applied to elucidate physiological phenomena and to discover protein biomarkers. This will include protein profiling of complex mixtures of proteins, sample collection, protein and peptide separation techniques, mass spectrometry analysis, 3D structure prediction as well as data evaluation. Students will attend seminars from instructors describing topics selected from the current literature including their research fields. By the end of the course, students will have developed an ability to search available library databases and systematically review and critically evaluate methodologies and approaches within the field of protein biochemistry. To this end students are expected to select a research topic related to their thesis topic, write a review article, prepare and present (both written and orally) the review article and assess review articles presented by their peers.
Prerequisite
Graduate standing and enrollment in the PhD program