TEACHING

BCHE 513 STRUCTURE OF BIOPOLYMERS

Development and implementation of structural genomics in pharmaceutical drug discovery. Additional lectures on x-ray diffraction, and protein structure.

MDCH 562 SPECTROSCOPY IN MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Detail presentation of x-ray crystallography, with focus on small molecule x-ray diffraction; including unit cells, space groups, systematic absences, data collection, structure determination, and analysis of final results.

MDCH 571 ORGANIC MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY

Structure, function, and mechanisms involving enzyme cofactors, including vitamins, coenzyme A, coenzyme Q10, tetrahydrofolic acid, heme and porphyrins, and S-adenosyl-methionine.

PHAR 331 FUNDAMENTALS OF DRUG ACTION I

Cell biology overview with focus on the molecule basis of genetic disorders, cancer, aging; gene mutations affecting protein folding, stability, function, and cellular location; signal transduction pathways that regulate cell functions; and post-translational modifications that affect the activity of a protein and alter cell physiology.

PHAR 404 PRINCIPLES OF DRUG ACTION AND THERAPEUTICS IV

Overview of the history and medicinal chemistry associated with Diabetes, including review of signal transduction pathways.

GCLS 504 SPECTROSCOPY AND STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

The application of spectroscopic methods in elucidating the structure and dynamics of biomolecules, including IR, UV/VIS, X-ray absorption, circular dichroism, fluorescence, phosphorescence, dynamic light scattering, x-ray diffraction, and nuclear magnetic resonance.

CHEM 232 ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Fundamentals of organic chemistry (first term).