(Chemistry Department, NTHU)
Research
Interests
Courses Offered
| Protein Structure, Prediction and Determination | |||
| Level: | 3rd/4th-year undergraduate or 1st-year graduate | ||
| Prerequisite: | Physical Chemistry | ||
| Years Offered: | Fall semester of even-numbered years | ||
| Credits: | 3 | ||
| Course Contents: | |||
| Protein Structure Motifs Forces that determine protein structure/folding Sequence analyses (alignment, motifs) Secondary structure prediction methods Tertiary structure prediction methods X-ray crystallography (phase determination, refinement) NMR (relaxation theory, NOE, structure determination) |
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| Introduction to Bioinformatics | |||
| Level: | 3rd/4th-year undergraduate or 1st-year graduate | ||
| Prerequisite: | Biochemistry | ||
| Years Offered: | Fall semester of odd-numbered years | ||
| Credits: | 3 | ||
| Course Contents: | |||
| Human Genome Functional genomics, structural genomics, proteonomics Sequence analyses (alignment, motifs) Secondary & tertiary structure prediction methods Molecular evolution |
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| Introduction to Biochemistry | |||
| Level: | 3rd/4th-year undergraduate | ||
| Prerequisite: | Physical chemistry | ||
| Years Offered: | Each spring semester | ||
| Credits: | 3 out of which I teach 1 credit (15 hours) | ||
| Course Contents: | |||
| Allosteric Proteins (myoglobin, hemoglobin) Signal transduction cascades Antibodies and T-cell receptors |
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| Introduction to Biotechnology (1 lecture) | |||
| Level:3 | 3rd/4th-year undergraduate or 1st-year graduate | ||
| Prerequisite: | Biochemistry | ||
| Credits: | 2 out of which I give a 2-hour lecture | ||
| Course Contents: | |||
| Protein engineering Structure-based drug design |
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