Principles of Protein Structure Peter Murray-Rust, D.Phil (Oxon, 1968) Designed for committed scientists in disciplines such as chemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology, immunology who wish to understand how the three-dimensional structures of proteins are critical to their functions. On completion, students will be able to understand the terminology used in describing primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary structure and the principles of classification. Several families of proteins (e.g. enzymes, immunoglobulins, viruses, receptors) will then be used to show how structure leads to function. Highly innovative multimedia technology has been developed which runs on any desktop machine. This allows interactive 3-D manipulation of structures, and also new ideas in learning such as remotely provided self-assesment. Students are encouraged to contribute material to the course such as their own expertise or technology. Consultants from several world-class protein structure groups have already committed their support. Sponsor: VSNS and Birkbeck College (University of London) Instructor's email address: Schedule: Regular intervals throughout the week (TBA) ~15 weeks starting Jan. 1995 Location: BioMOO (telnet bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il 8888) Level: Postgraduate Credits: None. Language of Instruction: English Status: under construction (registration probably Nov.) Requirements: ideally a first degree in science, maths, etc. Some read-only tutorial material (e.g. in chemistry) might be offered to bring students to a common starting point