kBiophysical Chemistry, Chem 728 (3 cr.)

Place: LGRT 1234. Day, Time: Tue/Thu 9:30-10:45 AM

Instructor: Bob Weis (Office: GSMN 244, Phone: 545-0464, e-mail: rmweis@chem.umass.edu)


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Lect
Date
Day
Topic
Reading
Homework
1
1/26
Thu
Course Introduction
Cooper Ch.1
2
1/31
Tue
 
Origin_Assign_1_RW
3
2/2
Thu
EPR (L03_EPR1)
4
2/7
Tue
5
2/9
Thu
6
2/14
Tue
no class
7
2/16
Thu
DLS (L05_DLS)
Cooper Ch. 3
Origin_Assign_2_DLS
8
2/21
Tue
Analytical Centrifugation
Cooper Ch. 4
Origin_Assign_3_AUC
9
2/23
Thu
Analytical Centrifugation (L07_AUC)
Cooper Ch. 4
10
2/28
Tue

Thermodynamics, Review of Thermodynamic Functions: Energy, Enthalpy, Entropy, Heat Capacity (Protein Stability Handout)

Cooper Ch. 5
11
3/1
Thu
no class, study Protein Stability Handout
"
12
3/6
Tue
Protein Stability (L08_ProStab), Protein Folding (L09_ProtFold)
"
13
3/8
Thu
Heat Capacity Changes in Biochem Reactions (L10_dCp)
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Origin_Assign_5_LigBind
14
3/13
Tue
no class, read Ch. 5 on Ligand Binding
"
15
3/15
Thu
Ligand Binding (L11&12_LigBind, L11a_FluorAnis)
"
16
3/27
Tue
No Class, project meetings with groups
17
3/29
Thu
Cooperativity (L11&12_LigBind) (L13_Mar_29_12)
Cooper Ch. 5
Origin_Assign_6_Coop
18
4/3
Tue
No Class, Cooperativity (L14_Binding_Polynomials.pdf)
Cooper Ch. 5
19
4/5
Thu
Kinetics (L15_Kinetics.pdf)
Cooper Ch. 6
20
4/10
Tue
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Prof. Mike Barnes (L16_SingMolSpec.pdf)
Cooper Ch. 8 & 9, P16, P17, P18
21
4/12
Thu
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Prof. Mike Barnes
Cooper Ch. 8 & 9, P16, P17, P18
4/17
Tue
No Class, Monday class schedule followed (Patriots Day)
Origin_Assign_7_DimerDissoc
22
4/19
Thu
Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (L17_FRET.pdf)
Origin_Assign_8_EnzKin
23
4/24
Tue
Presentations (Dagbay, Martin, Muneeruddin, Serrano) (Huang, Lee, Li, Yang)
Origin_Assign_9_FRET
24
4/26
Thu
Presentations (Eron, Hangasky, Jeskey) (Cui, Haglin, Zhao)
25
5/1
Tue
Reserved for Presentation Makeup    

 

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