Welcome to BIBC 102
  Metabolic Biochemistry
 
 

General Information - Winter 08

Instructor:        Immo E. Scheffler
Office:              3330 Bonner Hall
Office Hours:   11 - ~ noon, every day; 2 - 4 PM with appointments by e-mail
Telephone Contact: 534-2741 :           E-mail:     ischeffler@ucsd.edu
 

Project Assistant :         3234 BH

Teaching Assistants:

Ronnie Sokotof rsokotof@ucsd.edu
Lauren Ivans LIvans@ucsd.edu
Edward Chen e8chen@ucsd.edu
Joan Choi j2choi@ucsd.edu
Rona Bodman rabodman@hotmail.com
Jennifer Hoang juhoang@ucsd.edu
                                     office hours: Mon, 12 - 1pm, 3010B YORK
James Iwaz jiwaz@ucsd.edu
                                     office hours: Thu, 2:30 - 3:30, 3010C YORK
Lauren Mack lmack@ucsd.edu
Jacqueline Vu jacquelinevu.j@gmail.com

Lectures:           T TH 8:00 - 9:50YORK 2722

Sections:           Sections :           

room capacity is limited; sign up for a section on the sheets near my office to be sure to get in

Special Announcements
Click for periodic announcements during the course

    ....... will be updated as we go along

Course Outline for Winter 2008

SLIDES

PRINCIPLES OF BIOCHEMISTRY by Lehninger, Nelson and Cox;  Fourth Edition (2004) with CD ROM
(this book will also have the problems to be covered in sections)
The Absolute, Ultimate Guide to Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (Fourth Edition) is a Study Guide and Solutions Manual written by M. Osgood and K. Ocorr. It contains a step-by-step guide to the major priniciples and a series of questions and answers for self-study. These questions are in addition to the questions at the end of each chapter in the textbook itself. I recommend the study guide strongly.
There is also a Lecture Notebook, described as an "indispensable classroom companion"  allowing you to take "meaningful notes and listen attentively". I frankly believe that you should listen attentively and take your own notes in class, - then go to the text or come to me if they are not clear.

In the lectures there will be Power Point presentations, and all the diagrams shown in classs will be from the textbook. Thus, if you have the book, you will not have to copy from the screen.

If you have an older edition of Lehninger (3rd) and wish to save $$$, it is perfectly useful. Most if not all the material covered in this course can be found in the older book, but you should be aware that in the new book the Chapter Numbers and the Figure Numbers are somewhat different. For example, I have always combined the discussion of glycogen breakdown and glycogen synthesis. In the previous edition these topics were in Chapters 15 and 20; now they have been combined in Chapters 14 and 15.
The assignment of problems for the Sections will be from the new book. Chapter Numbers and Question Numbers may have changed.

A very good textbook is BIOCHEMISTRY (Third Edition) by R.H. Garrett and C.M. Grisham. This book is available ONLINE for significantly less than the price of a hard copy, and you can also get individual chapters online for ~$4 per chapter. If anyone is interested:
http://e-catalog.thomsonlearning.com/150l/

The following textbooks are also very good books to learn the basic material; they do not have the problems to be covered in sections.
BIOCHEMISTRY by Mathews, Van Holde and Ahern; Third Edition (2000)
BIOCHEMISTRY by Voet and Voet is an excellent, but very detailed text; a third edition has just been published

BIOCHEMISTRY by Stryer will also serve well (a new edition has been published recently)

SECTIONS

Sign-up sheets for the Sections with the times and names of the TA will be posted outside of my office during the first week. Sections will be filled on a first come basis. The capacity of each Section is limited by the room size.

EXAMS

Midterm Exam (2 hours, 40% of grade);

DATE AND TIME:   Thur Feb 7, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, in 108 Peterson

Final Exam (3 hours ,60% of grade);

DATE AND TIME:    Thur Mar. 20, 8:00 - 11:00 AM in a place to be announced                

          
                                                        

Midterm Exam (sample)
Final Exam WI 04 (sample)

Both exams will be based on the Lectures and on the Problem Set

NO CALCULATORS NEEDED AND NONE WILL BE ALLOWED INTO THE EXAM

All exams are to be written in ink

REGRADES: Addition errors will will corrected at once; other complaints/objections must be made in writing and turned in with the exam; the entire exam may be reviewed.

Many links to the Internet are given on the CD ROM that comes with the LNC textbook; specific recommendations will be made in class.

Metabolic Chart (from Sigma-Aldrich)

Metabolomics

On Line Macromolecular Museum

Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
the best source for information on human genetic diseases (pathology, biochemistry, genetics, etc)

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