Current Courses

Biochemistry 2998H is the second of two honors undergraduate courses designed to “expose students to emerging research areas and topics in the field[s] of biochemistry and biotechnology…and provides students with the opportunity to become engaged in individual research experiences.”

Biochemistry 5614 is an advanced three-credit course required for undergraduate Biochemistry majors that may also be taken by first-year graduate students. The course discusses the underlying chemical logic of glycolysis; gluconeogenesis; the TCA cycle; glycogen, lipid, and amino acid metabolism; and ATP generation via substrate-level and oxidative phosphorylation. The learning objectives are to:

Become familiar with the broad underlying principles of intermediary metabolism

Apply fundamental chemical principles to the understanding of key metabolic pathways

Understand the pathways and mechanisms of energy generation (e.g., ATP synthesis) that are coupled to the oxidation of metabolites

Appreciate the metabolic basis of select human diseases

Design and describe biochemical experiments to test hypotheses

Develop critical thinking and problem solving skills

Biochemistry 7766.01 is the first of two advanced two-credit courses designed to provide graduate students with a survey of the biology and biochemistry of RNA, with an emphasis on the structure-function relationships of RNAs. The course explores the principles and applications of well-established and emerging state-of-the-art techniques for elucidating the surprising versatility of RNA and RNA–protein complexes.

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