Molecules of life

·      Structure and function of proteins, case studies of different proteins illustrate their diverse functions

·      Structure, organization and function of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA); in particular genome organization and gene regulation will be discussed; RNA molecule functions will be highlighted

·      Enzyme catalysis, the Michaelis and Menten model for enzyme catalysis, structural and functional analysis of a protease

·      Selected topics of interest chosen with the students: examples are fluorescent proteins, the molecular biology of vision, the human genome....

The course is linked to the Biochip practicals