1. Proteins
2. Nucleic Acids
3. Enzyme Catalysis
4. Carbohydrates
5. Lipids and Membranes
6. Characterization of biomolecules
7. Separation and identification methods, including chromatography and electrophoresis
8. Hydrodynamic methods, including density and molecular volume, ultracentrifugation, sedimentation, diffusion and Brownian motion, and dynamic light scattering
9. Thermodynamics and kinetics methods, including calorimetry, dialysis, protein solubility and crystallization, relaxation, enzyme kinetics, and surface plasma resonance
10. Spectroscopic methods, including UV-Vis spectroscopy, circular dichroism, fluorescence, vibrational spectroscopy (IR and Raman), and NMR spectroscopy
11. Mass spectrometric methods, including ion sources, ionization, mass analyzers, detection, and application
12. Single molecule methods

p.s. The students in this course will be grouped into several teams. In principle, a team will consist of 3–6 students from different disciplines to work together. Each team will be assigned a small project to finish before oral presentation; that is, each team must submit a written report (3 hard copies) and a powerpoint electronic file for oral presentation to Professor Fang by December X. The written report must include description of each slide presented in the powerpoint file. All these materials will be posted on the course website. Only one student in each team will be drawn on site as the team representative to give oral presentation