Chemical biology is a burgeoning field that has rapidly risen to prominence. This surge of interest has been fueled by chemical biology’s applicability to understanding critical processes in live cells or model organisms in real time. This success has arisen because chemical biology straddles a nexus between chemistry, biology, and physics. Thus, chemical biology can harness rapid chemistry to observe or perturb biological processes, that are in turn reported using physical assays, all in an otherwise unperturbed living entity.
Although its boundaries are endless, the multidisciplinary nature of chemical biology can make the field seem daunting; we beg to differ! Here, we deconstruct chemical biology into its core components, and repackage the material. In the process we build up for each student a practical and theoretical knowledge bank that will set these students on their way to understanding and designing their own chemical biology experiments.
In this course we will define the field of chemical biology and what it includes within it. We will then learn what are the main methods in chemistry to answer biological questions. The purpose of the course will be to teach the students practical research methods and techniques.
Although its boundaries are endless, the multidisciplinary nature of chemical biology can make the field seem daunting; we beg to differ! Here, we deconstruct chemical biology into its core components, and repackage the material. In the process we build up for each student a practical and theoretical knowledge bank that will set these students on their way to understanding and designing their own chemical biology experiments.
In this course we will define the field of chemical biology and what it includes within it. We will then learn what are the main methods in chemistry to answer biological questions. The purpose of the course will be to teach the students practical research methods and techniques.
- Teacher: Raphael Isaac Benhamou