Note: You must establish a session for Fall Academic Term 2003 on wolverineaccess.umich.edu in order to use the link "Check Times, Location, and Availability". Once your session is established, the links will function. Courses in Biophysics This page was created at 6:59 PM on Tue, Sep 23, 2003. Fall Academic Term, 2003 (September 2 - December 19) BIOPHYS 520 / CHEM 520. Biophysical Chemistry I. Section 001. Instructor(s): Erik R P Zuiderweg (zuiderwe@umich.edu) Prerequisites & Distribution: CHEM 463, BIOLCHEM 415, or CHEM 420; permission of course director. (3). (Excl). (BS). May not be repeated for credit. Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This course is the first of a two-term Biophysical Chemistry series BIOPHYS 520/521, but it can be taken as stand-alone course as well. BIOPHYS 520 will introduce and explain the physicochemical properties of biological macromolecules and their complexes, mostly in solution. The course offers an overview of protein and nucleic acid structures. Intra- and inter-molecular forces, helix-coil transitions, and protein folding will be treated in a thermodynamical context. Thermodynamics of solutions, configurational statistics, ligand interactions, multi-site interactions, and cooperativity are treated in depth. Kinetics and thermodynamics of protein-ligand binding are discussed. The role of dynamics in protein function is introduced. Currently, biophysical, biochemical, and pharmacochemical research literature is full with papers interpreting the properties of biological macromolecules on the basis of their three-dimensional structure. This course will expand on that concept by offering a rigorous background in energetics, folding, interactions, and dynamics. As such the course is important to any student who has to deal with the concepts of biomolecular function and structure such as biochemists, molecular biophysicists, mathematical biologists, and molecular pharmacologists. This course will also serve as a basis for the graduate student who will be specializing in any of these topics for thesis research. Instructional material: Van Holde, Physical Biochemistry, 1998 and course packs. Evaluation: homework (40%), midterm exam (30%) and final exam (30%). Check Times, Location, and Availability Cost: No Data Given. Waitlist Code: 5, Permission of instructor required. Graduate Course Listings for BIOPHYS. This page was created at 6:59 PM on Tue, Sep 23, 2003. University of Michigan | College of LS&A | Student Academic Affairs | LS&A Bulletin Index | Department Homepage This page maintained by LS&A Advising Technology (webmaster_saa@umich.edu), G255-E Angell Hall Copyright © 2003 The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA +1 734 764-1817 Trademarks of the University of Michigan may not be electronically or otherwise altered or separated from this document or used for any non-University purpose.