Instructional Team:
The instructional team is drawn from the National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison, CESG, and BioMagResBank:
Arash Bahrami, Sam Butcher, Gabriel Comilescu, Hamid Eghbalnia, Klaas Hallenga, Ian Lewis, John Markley, Marco Tonelli,
Eldon Ulrich, W. Milo Westler.
Course Format / Grading:
This course consists of informal presentations by members of the instructional team and discussions. Students are encouraged to ask questions about concepts or material covered in the readings or lectures.
Grading will be on the basis of attendance, class participation, and a term paper to be turned in on the last class day.
Text / Readings:
We will not use a text, although students may wish to purchase one of the recommended ones. Readings will be from the literature.
Term paper:
The term paper should be 10-20 pages and cite 10-20 recent journal articles or reviews.
The topic of the paper should be chosen by 3/12/2009 and cleared with John Markley so that all students taking Biochem 801 have different topics.
The topic can be chosen from the list below or can be devised by the student (with approval of John Markley). A critical analysis of the literature is what is expected.
It is suggested that the term paper topic not be too closely related to your PhD research.
Suggested term paper topics:
- In cell NMR spectroscopy
- NMR strategies for nucleic acid structure determination
- Direct carbon observe strategies
- NMR spectroscopy of membrane proteins
- Structure and dynamics of unfolded proteins
- Role of NMR in metabolomics
- Applications of paramagnetic relaxation enhancement
- NMR analysis of plant cell walls