Courses

BIOC 221 Biochemistry II (Metabolism)

This course presents the bioenergetic principles, enzyme mechanisms and regulation of the central metabolic pathways. Topics include glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, pentose phosphate pathway, the citric acid cycle, metabolic regulation of glucose and glycogen metabolism, the urea cycle, oxidative phosphorylation and the electron transfer chain. The laboratory experiments will demonstrate metabolic principles.

　

BIOC 430    Chemical Biology

Chemical biology can be defined as an interdisciplinary science where chemistry (mostly organic) is applied to problems in biology. 
Many topics in this fast-growing field will be covered including protein engineering/directed enzyme evolution, chemical genetics, genomics/proteomics, ribozyme/riboswitch, metabolic engineering, combinatorial biosynthesis, antibiotics, biosensors and biopolymers, etc.
Prerequisites: BIOC 330 (Enzymes)

BIOC 330 Enzymes

Lectures will discuss the fundamentals of enzyme chemistry: kinetics, inhibition, structure and mechanism, activity control, folding, and evolution. The laboratory will deal with the isolation, purification, characterization, and quantitative determination of enzymes. Basic tools in bioinformatics will also be learned through assignments.
Prerequisite: BIOC221