Welcome to BIBC 102
  Metabolic Biochemistry
 
 

General Information - Winter 2001

Instructor:        Immo E. Scheffler
Office:              3202 Bonner Hall
Office Hours:   to be announced
Telephone Contact: 534-2741 :           E-mail:     ischeffler@ucsd.edu
 

Secretary:         Janice Smith, 3326 BH

Teaching Assistants:

Sharoni Jacobs  Mon 12:20 (CENTR 203), 1:25 (CENTR 217B)                   sjacobs@salk.edu                  
Michael Wangler Wed 9:05 (HSS 2154), Thu 8:00 (WLH 2110)                   mwangler@ucsd.edu
Payam Amini  Mon 6:50 (CENTR 203)                                                  paamini@sdcc13.ucsd.edu     
Edward Barton  Fri 2:30 (CENTR 207)                                                  egbarton@ucsd.edu
Xiaomang Ba   Fri 1:25 (HSS 2154)                                                      xba@ucsd.edu
Ashok Pai  Fri 4:40 (CENTR 202)                                                         apai@ucsd.edu
Jeffery C. Wheat   Mon 4:40 (CENTR 207)                                           jwheat@ucsd.edu

Special Announcements
Click for periodic announcements during the course

Course Outline for Present Term

PRINCIPLES OF BIOCHEMISTRY by Lehninger, Nelson and Cox;  Third Edition (2000) with CD ROM
(this book will also have the problems to be covered in sections)
The Absolute, Ultimate Guide to Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry (Third 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.

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 (Second Edition) is an excellent, but very detailed text;

Biochemistry (4th Edition) by Stryer will also serve well

EXAMS

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

DATE AND TIME:   February 7, 2001; 7 - 9 PM

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

DATE AND TIME:  March 24, 2001; 8 - 11 AM

Summer 96' Midterm (sample)
Summer 96' Final Exam (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.

Images of Biological Macromolecules (from L. Buehler's Web site for Structural Biology)

Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes

Animation Movies of ATP Synthase 8/22/2000
rotation of F1-ATPase

cytochrome c oxidase
Photosynthesis I
cytochrome c oxidase (II)

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