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Tentative Lecture Schedule: Physical Biochemistry 2015

Date	Topic	Reading
Fri Jan. 16	Introduction, Macromolecules, Interactions (1)	Chapter 1
Wed Jan. 21	Structure of Proteins (2)	Chapter 1
Fri Jan. 23	No Class
Wed Jan. 28	Structure of Nucleic Acids (3)	Chapter 1
Fri Jan. 30	Thermodynamics, Part I (4)	Chapter 2
Wed Feb. 4	Thermodynamics, Part II (5)	Chapter 2
Fri Feb. 6	Modeling Macromolecular Structure (6)	Chapter 3
Wed Feb. 11	Stabilizing Interactions in Macromolecules (7)	Chapter 3
Fri Feb. 13	Exam I	Chapters 1, 2
Wed Feb. 18	Modeling Nucleic Acids & Intro to Statistical Mechanics (8)	Chapter 3
Fri Feb. 20	Structural Transitions in Macromolecules (9)	Chapters 3, 4
Wed Feb. 25	Structural Transitions in Nucleic Acids/Random Walks/Simple Exact Models(10)	Chapter 4
Fri Feb 27	Diffusion and Introduction to Sedimentation (11)	Chapter 5
Wed Mar 4	Interpreting the Sedimentation Coefficient/ Zonal Sedimentation (12)	Chapter 5
Fri Mar. 6	Exam II	Chapters 3, 4
Wed Mar. 11	Spring Break
Fri Mar. 13	Spring Break
Wed Mar. 18	General Principles of Electrophoresis (13)	Chapters 5
Fri Mar. 20	Electrophoresis continued & Solution Thermodynamics (14)	Chapter 5, 13
Wed Mar. 25	Chemical Potential/Osmotic Pressure/ Sedimentation Equilibrium (15)	Chapter 13
Fri Mar. 27	Chemical Equilibria Involving Macromolecules (16)	Chapter 14
Wed Apr. 1	Binding of Small Ligands by Macromolecules (17)	Chapter 14
Fri Apr. 3	Holiday-No class
Wed Apr. 8	Exam III	Chapter 5, 13
Fri Apr. 10	Cooperativity in Binding & Proton Binding(18)	Chapter 14
Wed Apr. 15	Binding to Nucleic Acids, Viscosity, and Introduction to Mass Spectometry(19)	Chapters 14, 15
Fri Apr. 17	Mass Spectrometry (20)	Chapter 15
Wed Apr. 22	Fluorescence (21)	Chapter 11
Fri Apr. 24	Single Molecule Analysis	Chapter 16
Wed Apr. 29	Exam IV	Ch. 11, 14, 15,16
Fri May 1	Student Presentations
Wed May 6	Papers due, 3:00 PM (Final exam date)

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