Advanced Biochemistry Syllabus

Fall Term, 1998

Advanced Biochemistry (03-740) at CMU is taught in the Fall Term by Drs. William McClure and David Hackney. It is a problem set course in which a topic from the current literature is selected for each of the 12 weeks in the Fall semester. We use the WWW to access, organize, and display some of the material used in the topics selected for study.

ABC98, is the home page for Advanced Biochemistry; it has links to various WWW sites related to the course. There are also links to folders in our server that contain information related to the topics covered in the course. All of these links are intended to complement the four major components of the course:

1. Lectures will provide background and examples related to the weekly topic and to the assigned problem set questions.
2. Discussion sessions on the topic considered each week will be based on the written problem set answers.
3. Problem sets are designed to examine the current research literature in a critical fashion. Materials related to the problem sets (in addition to the background references and journal articles read) are shown as links from the course home page.
4. An exam on the topics covered will be given at the middle of the course.

Prerequisites for the course: Honor grade in Biochemistry I or equivalent, and an interest in thoroughly reading four or five research papers each week.

Grades for the course will be based on the problem set scores (80%) and the test score (20%).

Previous course topics for the past three years can be seen on these Home Pages.
(Some of the material linked from these pages may be unavailable or otherwise superseded.)

ABC95 Home Page Fall Term, 1995.

ABC96 Home Page Fall Term, 1996.

ABC97 Home Page Fall Term, 1997.

Back to ABC98 Home Page

Advanced Biochemistry at CMU