Chemical Biology

3 credits

Chemical biology can be defined as an interdisciplinary science where chemistry is applied to problems in biology. Topics include protein engineering/directed enzyme evolution, chemical genetics, unnatural amino acids, genomics/proteomics, catalytic antibody, ribozyme/riboswitch, combinatorial biosynthesis, metabolic engineering, DNA nanotechnology, chemical ecology/antibiotics, biosensors, etc. ***Prerequisite: BIOC 330***