Principles of Protein Structure

An Internet Course organized by Peter Murray-Rust, D.Phil (Oxon, 1968) and Alan Mills.

Course material will be offered on the Internet's World Wide Web. Keep your eyes peeled at the GNA's Virtual School of Natural Sciences (VSNS).

Real-time interactive classes will be taken with supervisors and fellow students at BioMOO.

Course Outline

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 and there may well be opportunities for project work.

Consultants from several world-class protein structure groups have already committed their support.

Summarized Details

      Sponsor: VSNS and Birkbeck College (University of London)
      Instructor's email address:  vsns-pps-admin@tsun.desy.de
      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
Look here for further details and here for proposed contents and here for a list of consultants involved, and here for some other links and here for some offers of course material

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