MACROMOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS I (BMB 508)

Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
255 Anatomy-Chemistry Building
2008 Course starts September 3

Course Directors:
Greg Van Duyne, Ph.D.,
vanduyne@mail.med.upenn.edu
Josh Wand, Ph.D., wand@mail.med.upenn.edu

Required Texts (in stock at Penn Bookstore):
van Holde, Johnson, & Ho, “Principles of Physical Biochemistry”, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall.
Branden & Tooze, “Introduction to Protein Structure”, 2nd Edition, Garland

Sample outline

Date

Topics

Lecturer

1

Introduction/Molecular interactions

Van Duyne/Sharp

2

Molecular interactions

Sharp

3

Molecular interactions

Sharp

4

Ligand Binding

Sharp

5

Denaturation, Folding

Sharp

6

Calorimetry

Wand

7

Sedimentation

Englander

8

NMR Spectroscopy

Wand

9

NMR Spectroscopy

Wand

10

NMR Spectroscopy

Wand

11

EPR Spectroscopy

Tommos

12

Spectroscopic probes

Vanderkooi

13

Spectroscopic probes

Vanderkooi

Mid-term Examination

14

Optical imaging

Vinogradov

15

Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Borthakur

16

X-ray Diffraction

Van Duyne

17

X-ray Diffraction

Van Duyne

18

Molecular analysis – modeling

Dunbrak

19

Protein Structure

Van Duyne

20

Protein Structure

Van Duyne

21

Nucleic Acids Structure

Van Duyne

NO CLASS

22

High order structure, electron microscopy

Weisel

23

Scattering methods

Dominguez

24

Protein chemistry

DeGrado

25

Protein design & engineering

DeGrado

25

Protein design & engineering

DeGrado

Final Examination