Macromolecules Fall 2009 – Lectures

 

Week 1: September 14, 16

Lecture 1: Protein Structure IJJ Miranda

Lecture 2: Working With and Purifying ProteinsJonathan Weissman

 

Week 2: September 21, 23

Lecture 3: Determining and Analyzing Molecular InteractionsGeeta Narlikar

Lecture 4: Diffusion and Brownian Motion (notes) , (slides)Dyche Mullins

 

Week 3: September 28, 30

Lecture 5: Pre-steady State Kinetics (slides)Dyche Mullins

Lecture 6: Kinetics WorkshopDyche Mullins

Problem Set 1 due Friday, October 2 by 5 pm

 

Week 4: October 5, 7

Lecture 7: Thermodynamics IGeeta Narlikar

Lecture 8: Thermodynamics IIGeeta Narlikar

** TA Kinetics Workshop: Wednesday 2 - 4 pm GH S201

 

Week 5: October 12, 14

Lecture 9: Binding and Cooperativity IGeeta Narlikar

Lecture 10: *CANCELLED* Binding and Cooperativity II – Geeta Narlikar

** TA Thermo Workshop: Wednesday 2 - 4 pm GH S201

Problem Set 2 due Friday, October 16 by 5 pm

 

Week 6: October 19, 21

Lecture 11: Enzyme KineticsGeeta Narlikar

Lecture 12: Enzyme Workshop – Geeta Narlikar

 

Week 7: October 26, 28

Lecture 13: Mass Spectrometry – Jonathan Weissman

Lecture 14: Protein Structure II – JJ Miranda

Problem Set 3 due Friday, October 30 by 5 pm

 

Week 8: November 2, 4

Lecture 15: X-Ray Crystallography I - Dave Agard

Lecture 16: X-Ray Crystallography II - Dave Agard (same file as above)

 

Week 9: November 9, 11

Lecture 17: Cryo-Electron Microscopy – Yifan Cheng

Lecture 18: NMR Spectroscopy – John Gross

** TA Course Review: Wednesday 2 - 4 pm GH S201

 

Week 10: November 16, 18

Lecture 19: System Biology – Jonathan Weissman

Lecture 20: Statistics and Data Analysis – Jonathan Weissman (same file as Lecture 13)

 

Week 11: November 23

Lecture 21: Fluorescence Spectroscopy – Dyche Mullins

(Thanksgiving Holiday)

Problem Set 4 due Monday, November 23 by 5pm

 

Week 12: November 30, December 2

Lecture 22: Single Molecule Techniques – Dyche Mullins

Lecture 23: TBA

Final Exam: To be handed out November 23. Due Friday, December 11.

 

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