Course Listing for Chemistry

<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> <title>Course Listing for Chemistry</title> <link href="/css/base.css?v=3" media="screen, projector, print" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="/css/styles.css?v=3" media="screen, projector, print" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <link href="/css/print.css" media="print" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <script src="/js/vendor/custom.modernizr.js"></script>  <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-71GBH8NMFM"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-71GBH8NMFM'); </script> </head> <body> <div id="ucsf-banner-nav" class="no-logo"> <div class="top-header-container row"> <ul class="menu"> <li class="first"><a href="http://www.ucsf.edu">University of California San Francisco</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ucsfhealth.org/">UCSF Medical Center</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/search" title="">Search UCSF</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/about">About UCSF</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns"> <h1 class="page-name-office noprint"><a href='http://registrar.ucsf.edu'><img src="/images/UCSF_Sublogo_Registrar_SAA_navy_RGB.png" width="237"></a></h1> <hr> <h1 class="page-name"><span class="noprint"><a href='/'>Course Catalog</a></span><small> » Course Listing for Chemistry </small></h1> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-6 columns"></div> <div class="large-6 columns text-right"> <label for="filter_quarter" class="inline">Quarter offered:</label> <select name="filter_quarter" id="filter_quarter" class="inline" style="width:120px;"> <option value='All' SELECTED>All</option> <option value='Winter'>Winter</option> <option value='Spring'>Spring</option> <option value='Summer'>Summer</option> <option value='Fall'>Fall</option> </select> </div> </div> <div class="page_content"> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>206  Laboratory Rotation in Chemistry and Chemical Biology</strong>  (1 - 10 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong>Staff</strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> Consent of instructor. </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> More than 4 rotations requires consent of the Program Director.       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Lab-Science </p> <p class="catalog_description">A laboratory rotation course to familiarize new students in the Graduate Program in Chemistry and Chemical Biology with various approaches to research in the pharmaceutical sciences.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/1239">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>219  Special Topics in Basic and Translational Chemical Biology</strong>  (3 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring</span> </p> <p><em>Course will not be offered in: Fall 2021, Winter 2022</em></p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong>Staff</strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> None. Completion of 1st year curriculum in Chemistry and Chemical Biology or another experimental biology graduate program is helpful, but not essential. </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> Chemistry and Chemical Biology graduate students, other graduate and professional students with interest in Chemical Biology. Permission from instructor is required.       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Lecture, Direct - Independent Study, Direct - Conference, Student - Lecture </p> <p class="catalog_description">Each course offering will focus on the literature of a current area of Chemical Biology research. Students will be expected to read assigned papers critically before class and then be prepared to ask questions. In addition, each student will select a paper and lead that discussion. To further enhance the educational mission, each student will work with the instructor and other faculty coaches in preparing their presentation.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/165">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>221  Research Conf in Chem, Chem Biol & Biophysics</strong>  (1 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong><a href="/facultydetails/2607" data-reveal-id="faculty-details" data-reveal-ajax="true">J. Gestwicki</a></strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> Graduate standing in the CCB program. </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> None.       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar </p> <p class="catalog_description">A series of weekly research conferences by visiting lecturers, on the broad topics of chemistry and chemical biology. In this course, students attend the seminar and then engage in a lively discussion session. In addition, a subset of students each week will also attend lunch with the visiting speaker.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/1242">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>223  Scientific Communication Seminar</strong>  (1 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong><a href="/facultydetails/2607" data-reveal-id="faculty-details" data-reveal-ajax="true">J. Gestwicki</a></strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> None. </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> None.       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar </p> <p class="catalog_description">This seminar will provide graduate students with a forum in which to develop seminar and poster presentation skills; critically organize and critically review scientific data; and analyze and question oral scientific presentations.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/1243">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>225  Graduate Research Opportunities</strong>  (1 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong><a href="/facultydetails/2607" data-reveal-id="faculty-details" data-reveal-ajax="true">J. Gestwicki</a></strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> None. </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> None.       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar </p> <p class="catalog_description">A series of weekly presentations of the research interests of the basic science faculty in the CCB program. The purpose is to acquaint new graduate students with the research in these laboratories, so that they can make informed decisions about collaborations, research rotations and thesis laboratory projects.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/1244">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>243  Chemical Biology</strong>  (5 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong><a href="/facultydetails/169" data-reveal-id="faculty-details" data-reveal-ajax="true">C. Craik</a></strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> None </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> None       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture </p> <p class="catalog_description">The basics of chemical biology will be discussed, with a particular emphasis on how chemical methods can be used to understand and manipulate complex biochemical and biological phenomena. Discussion periods will focus on applications in a range of topics, including macromolecular structure, protein function and signaling mechanisms. This course includes didactic lectures from experts in chemical biology, along with journal club discussions and the preparation and defense of an original proposal.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/168">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>244  Reaction Mechanisms</strong>  (3 units)   <span class="quarters">Winter</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong><a href="/facultydetails/2645" data-reveal-id="faculty-details" data-reveal-ajax="true">A. Renslo</a></strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> Graduate standing or consent of instructor. </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> None       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Lecture, Student - Lecture </p> <p class="catalog_description">This course is designed to develop the student's knowledge of organic mechanisms. This interactive course involves some lectures, but enforces student learning through intensive arrow pushing sessions with students at the board. Topics include electrocyclic reactions, Woodward-Hoffman rules, sigmatropic reactions, migration reactions, neighboring group effects, carbanions and free radicals, carbenoids, nitrenes, six-membered heterocyclic rings, five-membered heterocyclic rings.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/169">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>250  Research</strong>  (1 - 8 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong>Staff</strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> CHEMISTRY 225 </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> NA       <em>Activities:</em> Conference, Project </p> <p class="catalog_description">In this course, students will work together with a primary research advisor to select a research question and design a project workplan that will be carried out by the student. Through this activity, the student will gain experience in research strategy, learn techniques associated with modern biomedical research and practice how to interpret results. At the conclusion of the course, the student will present on their progress.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/1248">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>266  Research Planning Conference</strong>  (1 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong>Staff</strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> Consent of instructor </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> None       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Discussion </p> <p class="catalog_description">Discussion and practice of research problem formulation and experimental design. Sessions are organized around students' interests by faculty within the area of specialization.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/1249">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>297  Chemistry and Chemical Biology Journal Club</strong>  (1 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong><a href="/facultydetails/2042" data-reveal-id="faculty-details" data-reveal-ajax="true">J. Wells</a></strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> None. </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> None.       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Seminar, Student - Seminar </p> <p class="catalog_description">Readings and conferences based on topics in chemistry and chemical biology. Students are required to present in journal club, once in the first year and once in the second year. This experience will assist students in perfecting communication skills of the scientific literature.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/171">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="large-12 columns catalog_course"> <p class="catalog_subject"><strong>311  Curricular Development and Academic Leadership</strong>  (0.5 - 4 units)   <span class="quarters">Fall, Winter, Spring</span> </p> <p class="catalog_instructors"> <em>Instructor(s):</em> <strong><a href="/facultydetails/2607" data-reveal-id="faculty-details" data-reveal-ajax="true">J. Gestwicki</a></strong>       <em>Prerequisite(s):</em> None </p> <p class="catalog_activites"> <em>Restrictions:</em> CCB students only       <em>Activities:</em> Direct - Seminar, Direct - Workshop, Direct - Lab-Skills, Direct - Discussion, Student - Seminar, Student - Workshop, Student - Lab-Skills, Student - Discussion </p> <p class="catalog_description">The Curricular Development & Academic Leadership course will offer training and leadership to prepare graduate students in scientific leadership roles in the classroom and beyond. Students will have a hands-on approach to structuring and executing a curriculum. Students must submit an application prior to course enrollment.</p> <div class="catalog_links noprint"> <a href="/course/3749">View full course details</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="faculty-details" class="reveal-modal medium"></div> <script src="/js/all.min.js?v=2"></script> <script> $(document).foundation(); </script> <script> $(function () { $("#filter_quarter").change(function(){ var selected = $(this).val(); filter_on_quartser(selected); }); filter_on_quartser( $("#filter_quarter").val() ); function filter_on_quartser(selected) { if (selected == 'All') { $(".quarters").each(function() { $(this).closest('.row').show(); }); } else { $(".quarters").each(function() { if (!$(this).html().match(selected)) { $(this).closest('.row').hide(); } else { $(this).closest('.row').show(); } }); } } }); </script> </body> </html>

CINXE.COM

Course Listing for Chemistry