Instruction offered by members of the Department of Biological Sciences in the Faculty of Science.
Graduate Courses
Enrolment in any graduate course requires consent of the Department.
Only where appropriate to a student's program may graduate credit be received for courses numbered 500-599.
600-level courses are available with permission to undergraduate students in the final year of their programs.
See also the separate listing of graduate-level Chemistry courses.
Biochemistry 641
Selected Topics in Biochemistry
Selected topics in Biochemistry such as those which appear annually in the serial publication Annual Review of Biochemistry. Course Hours:3 units; H(3-0) MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT
A discussion of contemporary experimental and theoretical biochemical methods used for the study of drugs and diagnostics at a molecular level. Structural analysis, drug design and molecular dynamics methods will be described, as well as current practices for commercialization. Various modern 'omics' research approaches and current leading drug targets of the pharmaceutical industry will also be discussed. Course Hours:3 units; H(3-0)