Biochemistry 3107
Nucleic Acid Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Lectures: 12:00 pm-12:50 pm
Room: SN2105

Laboratories: SN 1039


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TENTATIVE DATES:

08 October 2004 -- Midterm Examination I

08 November 2004 -- Midterm Examination II (*** NOTE CHANGE IN DATE ***)

Final Examination -- To be scheduled by Registrar's Office

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Materials on Reserve
 
Selected Past Examinations
 
IUPAC Nucleotide Symbols
 
The One letter amino acid code
 
The Greek Alphabet
 
Three Cycle Semilog Graphpaper
 
Queen Elizabeth II Library: UNICORN
 
Health Science Library: WebSPIRS
 
Old Course Web Assignment
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 Science in the News

Alba - the bunny that glows - transgenic art?

The IgNobel Prizes - Winners for 2004

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2004
­ Richard Axel (USA) and Linda B. Buck (USA)
"for their discoveries of odorant receptors and the organization of the
olfactory system"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2004
­ Aaron Ciechanover (Israel), Avram Hershko (Israel), and Irwin Rose (USA)
"for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation"


The IgNobel Prizes - Winners for 2003

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2003
­ Paul C. Lauterbur (USA) and Sir Peter Mansfield (UK)
"for their discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2003
­ Peter Agre (USA) and Roderick MacKinnon (USA)
"for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes"


The IgNobel Prizes - Winners for 2002

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2002
­ Sydney Brenner (UK), H. Robert Horvitz (USA), and John E. Sulston (UK)
"for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2002
­ John B. Fenn (USA) & Ryoji Noyori (Japan) & Kurt Wüthrich (Switzerland)
"for the development of methods for identification and
structure analyses of biological macromolecules"

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2001
­ Leland H. Hartwell (USA), R. Timothy (Tim) Hunt (UK), and Paul M. Nurse (UK)
"for their discoveries of key regulators of the cell cycle" (cyclins and cdc kinases)

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