Courses

Biochemistry (CC BY-NC-SA)

Biochemistry is an introductory course, designed for both biology and chemical engineering majors. A consistent theme in this course is the development of a quantitative understanding of the interactions of biological molecules from a structural, thermodynamic, and molecular dynamic point of view. A molecular simulation environment provides the opportunity for you to explore the effect of molecular interactions on the biochemical properties of systems. This course assumes that students have taken introductory chemistry, including basic thermodynamics, as well as introductory organic chemistry. An introductory biology course is not a prerequisite for the course, but students would benefit from some prior exposure to biology, even at the high school level. Required mathematical skills include simple algebra and differential calculus.

Supplemental Materials

Chemical Biology & Biochemistry Laboratory Using Genetic Code Expansion Manual (CC BY-NC)

From Oregon State University.

Downloadable images (CC BY-SA)

• Active transport – protein pumps
• Anabolism and catabolism
• Cellular respiration simple
• Chromosome terminology
• DNA helicase, DNA replication
• DNA ligase, DNA replication
• DNA polymerase, DNA replication
• Egg and Sperm
• Independent assortment
• Messenger RNA – simple
• Multiple ribosomes translation, protein synthesis
• Protein synthesis elongation
• Rough ER close up: Showing a ribosome creating a polypeptide which is folded into a secondary structure in the lumen of the rER
• Synapsis and Crossing Over with Labels
• Synapsis and Crossing Over No Labels
• Transport across the plasma membrane
• Transcription and translation
• Types of RNA
• Unit cell for SA to V ratio with tables

Textbooks

Cell Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry for Pre-Clinical Students (CC BY-NC-SA)

An undergraduate medical-level resource for foundational knowledge across the disciplines of genetics, cell biology and biochemistry. This text is designed for a course in first year undergraduate medical course that is delivered typically before students start to explore systems physiology and pathophysiology.

Organic Chemistry with a Biological Emphasis (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

This textbook is designed for a two-semester, sophomore-level course in organic chemistry in which biological chemistry takes center stage. For the most part, the text covers the core concepts of organic structure, structure determination, and reactivity in the standard order. What is different is the context: biological chemistry is fully integrated into the explanation of central principles, and as much as possible the in-chapter and end-of-chapter problems are taken from the biochemical literature. Many laboratory synthesis reactions are also covered, generally in parallel with their biochemical counterparts – but it is intentionally the biological chemistry that comes first.