MUSC College of Graduate Studies
Summer Graduate Course Lecture Schedules
July 20-Aug 14, 2015
Room BSB 435, 9:30-11:30 am
Course Directors: Ed Krug and Cindy Wright
Unit 1. Medical Chemistry
July 20-24, room will be QF 106, start time 8:30 AM July 20 only
Date
Day
Time
Topic
TA/Instructor
July 20
M
8:30-9:30
Orientation and breakfast
Faculty
July 20
M
9:30-11:30
Molecular Structure
Beeson
July 21
T
9:30-11:30
Structure and Reactivity
Beeson
July 22
W
9:30-11:30
Acids & Bases, Functional Groups
Beeson
July 23
Th
9:30-11:30
Alcohols, Carbohydrates, Amines
Beeson
July 24
F
9:30-11:30
Amides, Peptides, Nucleic acids
Mohanty
Study Aides available on the web:
http://members.aol.com/profchm/acid_str.html
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/basicorg/bondmenu.html#top
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/basicorg/isomermenu.html#top
http://www.chemguide.co.uk/basicorg/acidmenu.html#top
http://wb.chem.lsu.edu/htdocs/people/sfwatkins/MERLOT/drawlewis/dls.html
http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/chemistry/courses/toolkits/125/js/lewis/
http://web.chem.ucla.edu/~harding/tutorials/resonance/draw_res_str.html
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~newton/Chy251_253/Lectures/Polarity/PolarityFS.html
http://courses.chem.psu.edu/chem38/mol-gallery/hybridization/hybrids.html
http://www.yk.psu.edu/~jhb3/cotw08.htm
A really great tutorial site:
http://www.ochem.com/
Units 2-3 Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Week 2, Room BSB 435
Date
Day
Time
Topic
July 27
M
9:30-10:30
DNA, RNA and the Flow of Genetic
Information
D. Long
July 27
M
10:3011:30
Noncoding RNAs
DePalma/Turner
July 28
T
9:30-11:30
DNA Replication, Recombination and
Repair
Mohanty
July 29
W
9:30-11:30
RNA Synthesis and Splicing
Olsen
July 30
Th
9:30-11:30
Epigenetics
Gruber
July 31
F
9:30-10:30
Cloning strategies/tagging proteins
Narang
July 31
F
10:3011:30
Mouse models – knockouts and
conditional expression
Gibbs
th
Instructor
Text Book: Biochemistry (5 edition), Berg, Tymoczko, Stryer, W.H. Freeman and
Company, New York, NY, Chapters 5, 6, 27, 28, 29, and 31.
Week 3
Room BSB 435
Date
Day
Time
Topic
Instructor
Aug 3
M
9:30-11:30
The control of gene expression
Olsen
Aug 4
T
9:30-11:30
Protein Synthesis
Olsen
Aug 5
W
9:30-11:30
Principles of Protein Structure and
How Structure Dictates Function
Olsen/DePalma
Aug 6
Th
9:30-11:30
Introductory Enzyme Kinetics and
Regulation
Olsen/Wang
Aug 7
F
9:30-11:30
Seminar/workshop – protein
techniques and models in
neuroscience
Hughes
Unit 4. Cell Biology
Week 4, Room BSB 435
Date
Day
Time
Topic
Aug 10
M
9:30-10:30
Aug 10
M
10:30-11:30 Cytoskeleton and Cell Motility
E. Krug
Aug 11
T
9:30-11:30
Stem cells
M. Fields
Aug 12
W
9:30-11:30
The Pathology of Cancer Cell
Transformation
K. Nolan
Aug 13
Th
9:30-11:30
Cytogenetics
J. Woolworth
Aug 14
F
9:30-11:30
Journal Article Discussion
E. Krug
Tissues and Cellular Compartments
How to Access Moodle Rooms:
1) Go to Edweb - http://www.library.musc.edu/page.php?id=1061
2) Select “Moodle Rooms” - log on with your NetID and password
3) Select “11/SU Summer Review (CGS*650*NB)”
Text/Reference Materials: Lodish, 6th Edition
Tissues and Cells - Chapters 1 & 19
Motility - Chapters 17 & 18
Cell Signaling - Chapters 15 & 16
Cell Differentiation and the Cell Cycle - Chapters 20 & 21
Genes, Genomics, and Chromosomes - Chapter 6
Instructor
Y. Sugi