Lectures

Date

Class Topic

Lecturer

Lecture Notes

Papers

2/1

Basic Chemistry Review

Miller(L)

L1

2/8

Chemical Synthesis of nucleosides and sugars

Moore(L)
Kobertz(L)

L2

2/15

Peptide Synthesis and native chemical ligation

Ali(L)

L3

P3

2/22

Chemical modifications of proteins

Kobertz(L)
Ali(P)

L4

P4

3/1

Post-translational modifications of protiens

Miller(L)
Kobertz(P)

L5

P5

3/8

Rational Drug Design

Schiffer(L)
Miller(P)

L6

P6

3/15

Combinatorial Chemistry

Ali(L)
Schiffer(P)

L7

P7

3/22

Mid-term Exam

3/29

Chemical Genetics

Miller(L)
Ali(P)

L8

P8

4/5

Orthogonal ligands and receptors

Miller(L)
Miller(P)

L9

P9

4/12

DNA recognition by small molecules

Wolfe(L)
Miller(P)

L10

P10

4/19

Unnatural amino acids

Kobertz(L)
Wofle(P)

L11

P11

4/26

Enzyme Inhibitors

Kobertz(L)
Kobertz(P)

L12

P12

5/3

Fundamentals of Fluorescence

Miller(L)
Kobertz(P)

L13

P13

5/10

Synthetic Biopolymers

Song(L)
Miller(P)

L14

P14

5/17

Nanoparticles

Han(L)
Song(P)

5/24

Final Exam