Courses

• GRS BI 937: Research in Marine Biology
  
• GRS BI 938: Research in Marine Biology
  
• GRS BI 939: Research in Neurobiology
  
• GRS BI 940: Research in Neurobiology
  
• GRS BI 941: Research in Evolution
  
• GRS BI 942: Research in Evolution
  
• GRS BI 943: Research in Pharmacology
  
• GRS BI 944: Research in Pharmacology
  
• GRS BI 945: Research in Forest Ecology
  
• GRS BI 946: Research in Forest Ecology
  
• GRS CC 699: Teaching Core
  
• GRS CH 621: Biochemistry I
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 204 and CAS CH 212; or equivalent; graduate status.
  Graduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 204 and CAS CH 212; or equivalent; graduate status.
  Introductory biochemistry. Protein structure and folding enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, and allostery; nucleic acid structure; lipids and membrane structure; bioenergetics; vitamins and coenzymes; introduction to intermediary metabolism. Three hours lecture, four hours laboratory, one hour discussion. Same as GRS BI 621. Lecture and laboratory meet with CAS BI/CH 421.
• GRS CH 622: Biochemistry II
  Graduate Prerequisites: GRS CH 621; or equivalent.
  Polysaccharides, energy storage and recognition; intermediary metabolism; lipid and isoprene metabolism; nitrogen metabolism; nucleotide metabolism; macromolecular biosynthesis with emphasis on specificity and fidelity in the mechanisms of RNA, DNA, and proteins synthesis. Three hours lecture, four hours laboratory, one hour discussion. Same as GRS BI 622. Lecture and laboratory meet with CAS BI/CH 422
• GRS CH 625: Enzymology: Mechanisms of Enzymatic Reactions
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 421; or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
  Covers enzyme structure-function relationships. A tool-box of methods is presented, including kinetics (steady state and pre-steady state methods), isotope effects, stereo-chemical methods, site-directed mutagenesis, methods to replace natural with unnatural amino acids, mechanism based inhibitors.
• GRS CH 626: Epigenetics
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 421; or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
  Surveys protein post-translational modifications and DNA/RNA processing, including mechanistic enzymology of protein and DNA modifications, signal transduction induced by the modifications, and related practical applications.
• GRS CH 627: RNA Structure and Function
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 421; or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
  Chemical and structural biology of natural RNA molecules, including ribosomal RNA, catalytic RNA (ribozymes), siRNA (small interfering RNA), and other small transcribed RNA molecules. Some attention to biological function, but main focus is not RNA cell and molecular biology.
• GRS CH 629: DNA Nanotechnology
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 412; or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
  Structural biology of DNA. Synthetic DNA objects, DNA templated synthesis, DNAzymes. While biological function is mentioned, the main focus is DNA in nanotechnology, not the involvement of DNA in cell and molecular biology.
• GRS CH 631: Advanced Coordination Chemistry I: Structure and Bonding
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 232; or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
  The interdependence of chemical bonding, spectroscopic characteristics, and reactivity properties of coordination compounds and complexes are described and formalized using the fudamental concept of symmetry, as applied to inorganic coordination complexes. Three hours lecture.
• GRS CH 632: Advanced Coordination Chemistry II: Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 232 and CAS CH 214; or consent of instructor.
  The mechanistic study of ligand substitution and electron transfer processes in coordination compounds are discussed in the context of basic molecular orbital theory. The connections between small molecule inorganic and biological macromolecular metal-catalyzed processes are presented. Three hours lecture.
• GRS CH 633: Physical Methods for Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CAS CH 232 and CAS CH 352 or GRS CH 631; or equivalents, or consent of instructor.
  A discussion of the physical techniques for the study of structural, magnetic, and redox-active properties of transitional metal complexes. Techniques discussed include x-ray crystallography; x-ray absorption; vibrational, NMR, EPR, and Mossbauer spectroscopies; and electrochemistry. Three hours lecture.