Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular semester. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the Student Link for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• GRS BI 932: Research in Systems Physiology
  
• GRS BI 933: Research in Developmental Biology
  
• GRS BI 934: Research in Developmental Biology
  
• GRS BI 935: Research in Marine Biology
  
• GRS BI 936: 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 CH 621: Biochemistry 1
  Introductory biochemistry. Protein structure and folding enzyme mechanisms, kinetics, and allostery; nucleic acid structure; macromolecular biosynthesis with emphasis on specificity and fidelity; lipids and membrane structure; bioenergetics; vitamins and coenzymes; introduction to intermediary metabolismvitamins 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 2
  Cell metabolism, with special emphasis on the uptake of food materials, the integration and regulation of catabolic, anabolic, and anaplerotic routes, and the generation and utilization of energy. Lectures include consideration of events in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms. 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 623: Chemical Biology
  Research at the chemistry-biology interface, including directed evolution, unnatural amino acid mutagenesis, chemical genetics, proteomics, and fluorescent reporters of enzyme function. Reading, discussing and evaluating the current chemical biology literature is a significant component of the course.
• GRS CH 626: Epigenetics
  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
  Chemical and structural biology of natural RNA molecules, including ribosomal RNA, catalytic RNA (ribozymes), siRNA (small interfering RNA), microRNA, long non-coding RNA, riboswitches, and CRISPR.
• GRS CH 629: DNA Nanotechnology
  Structural biology of DNA. Synthetic DNA objects, DNA origami, DNA templated synthesis, and DNAzymes. 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
  The interdependence of chemical bonding, spectroscopic characteristics, and reactivity properties of coordination compounds and complexes are described and formalized using the fundamental concept of symmetry, as applied to inorganic coordination complexes.
• GRS CH 632: Advanced Coordination Chemistry II: Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms
  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.
• GRS CH 633: Physical Methods for Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry
  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.

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