Teaching and Lab Outreach | Bourne Lab @OU

5CHEM4923, Senior Project (Fall 2015, Fall 2018); CHEM 4923 Fa15 syllabus UPDATED 082715
CHEM5240, Biochemical and Biophysical Methods, Graduate level, 11 weeks (Spring 2017, Spring 2018); CHEM5240 syllabus Sp18
CHEM5210, Molecular Biology, Graduate level, 5.5 weeks (Fall 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018); CHEM 5210 Molecular Biology Module 2 syllabus
CHEM3753 Introduction to Biochemical Methods (Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2016, Fall 2017); CHEM 3753 syllabus Fall2017, and Primer of Biochemical Calculations
CHEM5760 Special Topics in Structural Biology: The Structural Basis of Biomacromolecular Interactions, 5.5 weeks (Spring 2016); 5291_updatedSp18_syllabus
Structural Biology Journal Club (Spring 2015 – current, monthly; please email me if you would like to be added to the mailing list!)

Research Mentored courses

CHEM3440 Mentored Research Experience (coordinated with the OU Office of Undergraduate Research)
CHEM3980 Honors Research (letter graded, coordinated with the Honors College)
CHEM3990 Independent Study (S/U, pre-requisite of 1 course in the department)
CHEM 4990 Independent Study (letter graded, pre-requisite of 3 courses in the department)
CHEM5960 Directed Readings (Graduate Student projects)
CHEM5990 Independent Studies (Graduate Student research)
CHEM6980 Research for Doctoral Dissertation (available after successful defense of the General Exam)

Outreach Activities

We integrate our research, teaching and outreach missions by discovering and conveying impactful advances in the understanding of structural biology and its interactions with the biochemical world around us. We aspire to build useful tutorials that illustrate the three-dimensional world of macromolecules and their functions.

We are integrating the gaming mentality in teaching Biochemistry – fun!, right? We are using the great tool Twine which allows you to create a text-based adventure story. Check it out and feel free to provide feedback! Link here
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Students create movies using UCSF Chimera, and coming Fall 2018 – making these in UCSF ChimeraX to allow for VR rendering!
Check out our lab YouTube page for video uploads

We are also using this great tool called proteopedia.org as part of the Senior Project (CHEM4923) and illustrated by the examples below (static document followed by live link).

Discovering the shapes of biochemistry