This course is designed to give graduate students in the life sciences experience in communicating science to audiences outside their academic field. Lectures will provide opportunities for science communication and effective ways of engaging non-scientific audiences. Students will give brief oral popular-science presentations, participate in discussions about science communication, write and peer-review other students' popular science articles, and work in groups to propose potential new outreach programs.

Directed research project arranged on an individual basis between PhD student and professor.

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Presentations of research by Organismic and Evolutionary Biology graduate students.

This course will present proteins, nucleic acids, and oligosaccharides from the perspective of organic chemistry. Methods for their synthesis, purification, and chemical manipulations will be discussed, focusing on the application of chemical approaches to studying biological questions. For each topic, appropriate bioanalytical techniques will be emphasized.

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Laboratory research under direction of faculty member.

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Structure and function of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Properties of membranes and cellular transport systems, energy transduction, assembly and morphogenesis of organelles, organization of nucleus and cytoskeleton. Experimental approaches emphasized.