Proteins and Health

Undergraduate

covers core concepts of amino acids and proteins with a particular focus on their relationship to human health and disease. Students will learn about dietary proteins as sources of amino acids, amino acid requirements, synthesis, structure and function, body protein synthesis, trafficking, translation, post-translational modifications, and interactions with other proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, nucleic acids and drugs. The course includes protein methodology such as structure determination and prediction, immunohistochemistry, bioinformatics and computational modelling.