Chemical Biology

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Chemical biology applies the principles and techniques of organic chemistry to understand or solve problems relevant to biology and to manipulate biosystems via synthetic molecules or chemical modifications. The goal of this course is for you to: understand this approach to biochemical systems; know what concepts are typically applied in generating and understanding these systems with a quantitative focus on the energy involved and the balance of entropy and enthalpy in the system with major contributions from solvation; and be able to read, interpret and present data from chemical biology papers.