Chem 440: Readings & Assignments
(in addition to the syllabus/text readings)
"The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts, but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks." |
| Due Date | Paper Link* | Assignment |
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| 8/29 | Developing a Well-Reasoned Response to a Moral Problem in Scientific Research , Bebeau Case study |
read book chapter read Bebeau article |
9/5
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"Adaptive inhibitors of the HIV-1 protease", Ohtaka & Freire |
read |
9/8
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"Unique thermodynamic response of tipranavir to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proease drug resistance mutations" |
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| 9/15 | "Protein folding and misfolding" |
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9/24
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"RNA misfolding and the action of chaperones" Frontiers in Bioscience (2008) 13, 1-20 |
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9/26 |
" The Fastest Global Events in RNA Folding: Electrostatic Relaxation and Tertiary Collapse of the Tetrahymena Ribozyme " |
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10/1
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"A Scientific Revolution?"
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assignment: curiousity |
10/3 |
"A natively unfolded yeast prion monomer adopts an ensemble of collapsed and rapidly fluctuating structures" |
Assignment |
10/10 |
"The stem-loop binding protein forms a highly stable and specific complex with the 3' stem-loop of histone mRNAs" RNA (2001) 7:123-132 |
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| "How enzymes work..." (PDF) (HTML) | ||
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"Peptide Specificity of Protein Prenyltransferases Is Determined Mainly by Reactivity Rather than Binding Affinity" |
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* Paper links include PDF or HTML link. You should be able to easily go from one to the other once you are in the site. Generally, a PDF link is better for printing, while an HTML link may provide you with better figures (with color, if available).
created by Stephanie M. Yoder '06
Last updated - August 27, 2008