What are the requirements?
All MSM students complete the following four core courses that give comprehensive training in the science underlying the study the structures and reaction mechanisms of proteins, DNA, and RNA:
- BCHM 101a Advanced Biochemistry: Enzyme Mechanisms [syllabus]
- BCHM 102a Quantitative Approaches to Biochemical Systems [syllabus]
- BCHM 103b Advanced Biochemistry: Information Transfer Mechanisms
- BCHM 104b Physical Chemistry of Macromolecules
The core courses are either required or elective courses in the two participating Ph.D. programs, so that MSM students in general take the same number of courses as their non-MSM peers, as shown here:
In addition to the core curriculum, all students doing research projects that focus on macromolecular structure take one or more of the advanced courses on experimental and computational methods in structural biology: