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09.28.07 Chemistry Seminar: Michael VanNieuwenhze, of the Department of Chemistry at Indiana University, will present a seminar, "Synthesis and Study of Peptide Antibiotics that Inhibit Bacterial Cell Wall Biosynthesis," tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 28, at 3 p.m. in Chemical Sciences 101. A discussion period will follow. Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome to attend.

10.04.07 Forestry/Biotech Research Center Seminar: Kyung-Hwan Han of Michigan State University will present a forest molecular genetics seminar "What Makes a Tree a Tree? A Step Towards Optimizing Lignocellulosicfeedstock for Biofuel Productivity and Processing" on Thursday, October 4 at 2pm in SFRES, G002.

10.05.07 Biology Seminar: Colin Brooks from the Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI)will be presenting a departmental seminar titled "Using web-based decision support systems to understand the impacts of contamination on Great Lakes rivers and human health" on Friday Oct. 5 at 2:00p.m., M&M (building 12), room U113.

10.19.07 Biology Seminar: Alison Roberts from University of Rhode Island will present "Physcomitrella as a heterologous expression system for investigating the functions of cellulose synthase-like genes." Friday Oct. 19, 2:00 pm, M&M U113.

10.19.07 Chemistry Seminar: Zhongwu Guo of Wayne State University will present "Synthesis and biomedical applications of complex glycoconjugates." Friday, Oct. 19 at 3:00 pm Chemical Sciences 101.

10.19.07 Biomedical Engineering Seminar: Rupak Rajachar from Michigan Tech. will present a graduate seminar, "Controlling Cell Behavior using Physical Signaling Pathways" at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 19, in M&M U113.

10.26.07 Biology Seminar: Susan Bagley from Michigan Technological University will present "From Wood to Wheels and the Microbiology of the Middle".  All are welcome and encouraged to attend and learn from our colleague. Refreshments will be provided. Friday Oct. 26, 2:00 pm, M&M U113.

 

 

 

Exam I Study Material

New (2007)

Amino acid schematic based on idea from Dr. Thomas Loehr.

Problem Set 1 Answers

Amino acid ionization review

Protein sequencing overview

Protein Folding (powerpoint) (html) and Degradation (powerpoint) (html)

Neat molecular depiction of GROEL/GROES movement from real data

 

Old (pre-2007)

Problem Set 1, Set 1 Answers

Problem Set 2, Set 2 Answers

Old ExamI, Old ExamI Answers

 

Exam II Study Material

New (2007)

Michaelis-Menten Kinetics

Problem Set 2, Set 2 Answers

Lysozyme Mechanism

Lysozyme Factoids

Exam II Study Sheet

 

Old (pre-2007)

Old ExamII

Skills List

Protein Modifications Summary Sheet

Kinetics Problem Set, Answers

Old exam III  (the figure is missing for question 7 but you get the idea)

 

Protein Visualization Exercise

Instructions on Rasmol for protein structure visualization

 

 

 

Important weblinks for this course

National Center for Biotechnology Information

The Protein Databank

Fun Stuff and Miscellaneous

Fun link to the neutrophil chasing S. aureus movie

The periodic table (animated of course with music by Tom Lehrer)

Craig Venter's paper "Essential genes of a minimal bacterium" PNAS (January 2006) 103:425

Krueger and Srivastava's paper on "Post-translational Protein Modifications: Current Implications for Cancer Detection, Prevention and Therapeutics" Mol. Cell. Proteomics (October 2006) 5.10:1799