Undergraduate Courses:
Winter 2025: BCH 4116 Analytical Biochemistry (without labs)/ BIM 4316 Modern Bioanalytical Chemistry (with labs)
This course provides an overview of modern bioanalytical and biochemical instrumental techniques, with a focus on the analysis of proteins and nucleic acids. Analytical Biochemistry (or Bioanalytical Chemistry) forms the foundation of many advances in biology and at the chemistry-biology interface. It encompasses new fields such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and interactomics. Progress in the biomedical sciences would be much less remarkable without the ability to detect and quantify small amounts of biomolecules, and determine the composition and interaction of multiple components in biological samples. The lectures cover the fundamental theory and practical aspects of spectroscopic methods, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, ELISA, Western, Northern and Southern blotting, SDS-PAGE, SPR, capillary electrophoresis, flow cytometry, and protein mass spectrometry. Additionally, the course will discuss exciting applications of new bioanalytical techniques for COVID diagnostics and the discovery of biopharmaceuticals, aptamers, and biomarkers. The laboratory component of the course teaches skills in qualitative and quantitative analysis of biomolecules.
Winter 2025: CHM 2354 Analytical Chemistry (with labs)
An introduction to fundamental principles of analytical chemistry, including data analysis, acid-base, EDTA, redox titrations, electrochemistry, adsorption and fluorescent spectroscopy, liquid and gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and electrophoresis.