Work Assigments

"Metabolism in the News" is the focus of the honors section. The goal for the semester is to do a research project relating contemporary "newsworthy" research related to the subjects discussed in Biochemistry 462b. Students will choose topics after searching World Wide Web and popular press reports of new discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms of metabolic systems and/or the molecular basis of metabolic diseases. Students will produce a scholarly research report in the form of a web document that includes links to biochemistry course materials, primary literature citations, pertinent web sites, and other information sources.

Throughout the semester, students will continue to review reports of new discoveries in metabolic biochemistry and to present brief in-class reports of significant findings.