Doctor of Philosophy (Biochemistry)

1. Professional Development and Ethics

See GPS Ethics and Academic Citizenship Training Requirement  and GPS Professional Development Requirement .

2. Communication

Required:

• BIOCH 670 - Recent Advances in Biochemistry
• BIOCH 671 - Recent Advances in Biochemistry

3. Critical Reading/Thinking

All Biochemistry graduate students are required to take at least one of:

• BIOCH 609 - Macromolecular Structure Analysis
• BIOCH 620 - Selected Topics in Protein Structure, Function, and Regulation
• BIOCH 630 - Selected Topics in Modern Molecular Biology
• BIOCH 641 - Selected Topics on the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes
• BIOCH 675 - Magnetic Resonance in Biology and Medicine II

4. Background Knowledge

In addition to one of the above courses in critical reading/thinking, students in the Biochemistry PhD program are required to complete a second course at the 500- or 600-level that may be selected from the above listing or from the following:

• BIOCH 510 - Signal Transduction
• BIOCH 520 - Protein Chemistry, Structure, and Function
• BIOCH 525 - Proteomics
• BIOCH 530 - Biochemistry of Eukaryotic Gene Expression
• BIOCH 541 - Structure and Function of Biological Membranes
• BIOCH 565 - Methods in Molecular Biophysics

• This may also be fulfilled by taking relevant  Graduate level courses from other departments if approved by the supervisor and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Biochemistry.