Chemistry

• GRS CH 721: Enzyme Kinetics and Mechanisms
  Principles of enzyme structure catalysis; steady-state and transition-state kinetics; detection and characterization of intermediates; enzyme inhibition; allosteric and other regulatory phenomena; case studies of well-characterized mechanisms.
• GRS CH 722: Protein Chemistry
  Methods for determining the structure of noncrystalline proteins, including protein sequence analysis, chemical modification, NMR spectroscopy and site-specific mutagenesis; case studies of the structure and function of selected proteins. Three hours lecture.
• GRS CH 723: Physical Chemistry of Biological Macromolecules
  Physical properties and structures of proteins and related biological macromolecules. Size and shape of macromolecules; denaturation and cohesive forces in proteins; protein folding methods for studying biological macromolecules in solution and in the crystalline state.
• GRS CH 724: Protein Structure Determination
  Theoretical and practical concepts underlying the determination of macromolecular structure, including: crystallization, crystal diffraction, space-group determination, solution of the phase problem, fourier-transform methods, structure refinement, and analysis.
• GRS CH 741: Organic Spectroscopy and Structure Determination
  Spectroscopic methods in organic structure determination, with main emphasis on nuclear magnetic resonance.
• GRS CH 801: Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing
  Introduction to scholarly writing, oral presentation, proposal development, data analysis, mentoring relationships, and ethical conduct in research
• GRS CH 901: PhD Research in Chemistry
  
• GRS CH 902: PhD Research in Chemistry
  
• GRS CH 903: MA Research in Chemistry
  A written report at the end of each semester is required.
• GRS CH 904: MA Research in Chemistry
  A written report at the end of each semester is required.

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