| LEC # | TOPICS |
|---|---|
| 1 | Important Role of Water Molecule, Hydration of Amino Acids, Protein and other Biological Materials (PDF) |
| 2 | Amino Acids: Their Chemical and Physical Properties (PDF) |
| 3 | Primary and Secondary Structures of Proteins Dihedral Angles, Peptide Bonds, Planar Structure, Relationship and Propensity of Amino Acid Sequence, Secondary Structure Ramachandran Plot |
| 4 | Alpha-helices, 310 Helix, pi Helix, Beta-helices, etc. Variation of Helices and their Helical Bundles, Two Strand Coiled-coils, Three or Four Strand Coiled-coils, Supercoils Various Helical Rich Protein Structure Models Alpha-helices in Biological Materials |
| 5 | Helical Coiled-coils Two-, Three-, Four- Stranded Helical Bundles Applying Coiled-coils to Nanomaterials, Molecular Springs, Switches, etc. |
| 6 | Beta Sheets: Antiparallel, Parallel, and Twist; Beta Sheet Rich Proteins; Beta Sheets in Biological Materials (PDF) |
| 7 | Practical Aspects of Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography, Part 1: X-ray Single Crystal Diffraction, Fiber Diffraction, and Preparation of Samples (PDF) |
| 8 | NMR (Guest Lecturer: Peter Carr, MIT Media Lab) (PDF) |
| 9 | Practical Aspects of Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography, Part 2 (PDF) |
| 10 | Analytical Approaches and Instrumentation (Guest Lecturer: Sotirus Koutsopoulos, Ph.D) (PDF) |
| 11 | Silk (PDF) |
| 12 | Biomineralization: Sea Creatures (PDF) |
| 13 | Biomineralization: Bones and Teeth (PDF) |
| 14 | Bioadhesives (PDF) |
| 15 | Lipids as Building Materials (PDF) |
| 16 | Polysaccharides and Oligosaccharides (PDF) |
| 17 | Francis Crick Film |
| 18 | Molecular Structure and Self-assembly of DNA and RNA (PDF) |
| 19 | Macromolecular Interactions and Protein and Adsorption (Guest Lecturer: Larry Unsworth, Ph.D, National Institute for Nanotechnology) (PDF) Crystallography (Guest lecturer: Liselotte Kaiser, MIT Center for Biomedical Engineering) |
| 20 | DNA Molecular Machines (PDF) |
| 21 | Fluorescent Proteins (PDF) |
| 22 | Self-assembling Peptide Systems (Dr. Zhang's Research) (PDF) |
| 23 | Self-assembling Peptide Systems (Dr. Zhang's Research) (cont.) (PDF) Applying Biomimicry to Nanotechnology (Guest Lecture by Andreas Mershin) |
| 24 | Research in Biomaterials (PDF) |
| 25-26 | Student Research Activity Presentations |