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." |
Assignment Title/Number |
Paper Link* * 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). |
To Do |
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Case Study, ethics |
Developing a Well-Reasoned Response to a Moral Problem in Scientific Research , Bebeau Case study |
read Bebeau article read Ethics Case study from class |
| #1 | "Adaptive inhibitors of the HIV-1 protease", Ohtaka & Freire |
Assignment #1: read and prepare to discuss |
#2 |
"Unique thermodynamic response of tipranavir to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 proease drug resistance mutations" |
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#3 |
"Protein folding and misfolding" |
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#4 |
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#5 |
Assignment #5: | |
#6 |
"A Scientific Revolution?"
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Assignment #6: read & come prepared to discuss |
#7 |
"A natively unfolded yeast prion monomer adopts an ensemble of collapsed and rapidly fluctuating structures" PNAS (2007) 104: 2649-2654 |
Assignment #7 |
#8 |
"An electrochemiluminescent aptamer switch for a high-throughput assay of an RNA editing reaction" RNA (2009) 15: 1929-1938 "Fluorescently labeled ribosomes as a tool for analyzing antibiotic binding" RNA (2009) 15: 1597-1604 |
Read one of these papers and do Assignment #8 |
#9 |
see "To Do" |
Assignment #9 |
not due fall09 |
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#10 & #11 |
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Assignment #10
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#12 |
Assignment #12 |
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created by Stephanie M. Yoder '06
Last updated - November 11, 2009