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Chemistry C483

Welcome to C483 Fall 2009!

                                                               3 Credits

MWF, 10:10 am, Chemistry 122

 

C483 Fall 2009 syllabus

Instructor:                                            Office hours:

              Jill Paterson, PhD                                Wednesday 9:05-10:05

              jpaterso@indiana.edu                          Friday 9:05-10:05

              Chemistry A608                                  in Chemistry A608

 

Associate Instructors:

               Abhigna Polavarapu     Office hours: Monday, 11-12 in Chemistry 046

               Nichole Stewart           Office hours: Tuesday, 11-12 in Chemistry 046

 

Required Text:

 Principles of Biochemsitry, 4th Edition, Horton et al., Pearson Prentice Hall Publishing, 2006.

 

There is an electronic version of this book available from the bookstore.

Discussion Sections:

Discussion sections will begin Wednesday, September 9th.  To ensure that all students have access to the same number of discussion sessions prior to each exam, a discussion week will run Wednesday-Tuesday.  Everyone is registered for a specific section, but you are welcome to attend any of the four discussion sections.  Attendance will be taken in the discussion sections, but attendance is not mandatory.  Each week, the discussion session will have a specific set of information to be covered, will allow time for any questions you have, and will provide you with additional problems to work. 

 

              Meeting times:

              Monday             4:40-5:30           SW220                Section 9787

              Tuesday             4:40-5:30           BH144                 Section 9788

              Wednesday        4:40-5:30           Swain East 105    Section 9789

              Thursday            4:40-5:30           Wylie 115            Section 9790

Discussion schedule:

Week

Dates

Subjects

Assignment before arriving

1

8/31-9/8

No discussions

 

2

9/9-9/15

Buffer Problems

 

 

Ionization states

Chapter 2: 7,8,9,10,14,15

 

Chapter 3:

8,9,10,12,14,16

3

9/16-9/22

Protein purification

 

Protein structure

 

 

Chapter 4: 1,2,3,4,8,12,13,15,16

4

9/23-9/29

2008 C483 exam 1 & problem sets (2008 & 2009)

Work through 2008 exam and problems sets

5

9/30-10/6

Discussion of Exam #1

 

6

10/7-10/13

Enzyme kinetics

Chapter 5: 2,3,4,5,6,7,9,11,12,14,15

7

10/14-10/20

Enzyme mechanisms

 

 

Carbohydrates

Chapter 6: 1,3,4,6,7c,8,9,10,13

 

Chapter 8:

1,2,4,5,7,11,13,15,

8

10/21-10/27

Lipids

 

 

2008 C483 exam 2 and problem sets (2008 & 2009)

Chapter 9: 1,3,4,5,6,7,11,12

 

Work through 2008 exam and both problem sets

9

10/28-11/3

Coenzymes

 

 

Energetic metabolites

Chapter 7: 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10

 

Chapter 10:

1,2,4,5,6,7,10,11,13,14, 16

10

11/4-11/10

Glycolysis

 

 

TCA

Chapter 11: 1,2,5,6,8,10,11,13

 

Chapter 13: 1,3,4,6,8,9,10,13,14,

11

11/11-11/17

Electron transport chain

 

 

Gluconeogenesis and Pentose phosphate pathway

Chapter 14: 2,4,5a,7,8,10,11b

 

Chapter 12: 2,4,5,6,9,10,12,14

12

11/18-11/24

b-oxidation

 

 

2008 C483 exam 3 & problem sets (2008 & 2009)

Chapter 16:

 3,5,6

 

Work through 2008 exam and problems sets

13

11/25-12/1

NO DISCUSSIONS; Thanksgiving break

 

 

14

12/2-12/8

Protein metabolism

 

Preparation for final exam

Chapter 17: no assigned problems

 

 

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