BioE 111 - Functional Biomaterials Development and Characterization (4 Units)
Course Overview
Summary
This course is intended for upper level engineering undergraduate students interested in the development of novel functional proteins and peptide motifs and characterization of their physical and biological properties using various instrumentation tools in quantitative manners. The emphasis of the class is how to develop novel proteins and peptide motifs, and to characterize their physical and biological functions using various analytical tools in quantitative manners.
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Prerequisites
Courses recommended before taking this class
What's next?
BioE 111 helps out with fundamental knowledge of biomaterials classes like BioE 150 and aids the understanding of BioE 163 which is a imaging/spectroscopy class.
Choosing the course
What concentration is this course relevant to?
- Biomaterials
- Biomechanics
- Cell and Tissue Engineering
- Synthetic Biology
- Pre-med
Topics covered
- Amino acid fundamentals
- Protein sequencing
- Mass spectroscopy
- Chromatography
- DNA fundamentals
- DNA sequencing (including next gen)
- Genetic engineering
- Phage display
- Other display techniques (bacterial, yeast, mRNA, yeast-2-hybrid, bead-based peptide screening)
- Spectroscopy
- Biothermodynamics
- Protein structure
- Binding assays and kinetics
- SPR
- Dynamic light scattering
When should I take the course?
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Workload and Tips
What is the workload and exam diffculty?
The workoad varies and takes around ~3 hours outside class each week. There is no lab component and the exams are thorough/in-depth but fair.