Assignments

This page contains a directory of all of the assignments for each week.  You can quickly jump to the content pages for the given week by clicking on the date in the assignment table below.

Week 16-18:  May 13 - June 3, 2009

FINAL CASE STUDY: this case study represents the culminating activity for this course. This is a an opportunity for you, working in a team-based collaborative manner as is the expectation in a professional environment, to produce a body of work that demonstrates your ability to apply your knowledge and skills in medicinal chemistry to a problem.

  1. Final Case Study
  2. Project Management Worksheet (Excel file): this file, completed in terms of who will be doing which parts, must be submitted via email by the project manager NO LATER THAN 11 pm Monday, May 18th. Earlier submission is strongly recommended!
  3. Case Study Rubric (Grading sheet)
  4. Support Materials
  5. Groups
    • Team A: Ip, Sarasozo, Skakuj
    • Team B: Adloo, Smith, Syed
    • Team C: Amin, Aphale, Moseley
    • Team D: Bradfield, Mariano, Rogers
    • Team E: Cavagnini, D'Costa, Venkateswaran
    • Team F: Colquhoun, Longo, White
  6. Help Schedule: all times 8:30 - 9:30 pm)
    • Computational Chemistry group:
      • Sunday, May 17
      • Thursday, May 21
    • Pharmacology group:
      • Monday, May 18
      • Monday May 25
    • Protein Studies group:
      • Tuesday, May 19
      • Tuesday May 26
    • Last minute questions: Thursday, May 28
  7. PROJECT DUE (by email): 11 pm Tuesday, June 2

Week 15:  May 6, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, May 6 Watch Week 14 podcast
Protein-Ligand Docking (Part B)
None. Lecture notes can be downloaded here You are strongly encouraged to watch this prior to the Thursday night session!
Sunday, May 10, 11 pm Read Chapter 4, pages 113-133 and article: "Many Roles of Computation in Drug Design" WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, May 12, 11 pm Docking Exercise #2
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 14:  April 29, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, April 29 Watch Week 13 podcast
Protein-Ligand Docking (Part A)
None. Lecture notes can be downloaded here You are strongly encouraged to watch this prior to the Thursday night session!
Sunday, May 3, 11 pm Read Chapter 8, pages 251-265 (same as last week) WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, May 5, 11 pm Docking Exercise #1
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 13:  April 22, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, April 22 Watch Week 13 podcast
Intro to Bioinformatics
None. Lecture notes can be downloaded here You are strongly encouraged to watch this prior to the Thursday night session!
Sunday, April 26, 11 pm Read Chapter 8, pages 251-265 WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, April 28, 11 pm Case Study: COX-2 Enzyme Study
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 12:  April 8, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Tuesday, April 14, 11 pm Watch TED presentation on molecular origami
None

Week 11:  April 1, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday,April 1 Watch Week 11 podcast
Protein Structure (Part 2)
None. Lecture notes can be downloaded here You are strongly encouraged to watch this prior to the Thursday night session!
Sunday, April 5, 11 pm Short WebAssign on podcast WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, April 7, 11 pm Protein Profile Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 10:  March 25, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday,March 25 Watch Week 10 podcast
Intro to Protein Structure
None. Lecture notes can be downloaded here You are strongly encouraged to watch this prior to the Thursday night session!
Wednesday,March 25 Register for an account on the Student Biology Workbench
Watch the short podcast on how to do this.
Sunday, March 29, 11 pm Read Wikipedia readings on:
  1. Proteins
  2. Protein structure
  3. Amino acids
(or any other website, textbook, etc. that contains this information
WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, March 31, 11 pm Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 9:  March 18, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
General Review for midterm. Study Guide is available here.
None
None
Tuesday, March 24, 11 pm Pharmacokinetics Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 8:  March 11, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday,March 11 Watch Week 7 podcast
Drug Synthesis
None.  Lecture notes can be downloaded here You are strongly encouraged to watch this prior to the Thursday night session!
Sunday, March 15, 11 pm Read Chapter 15, pg 531-534; 548-557 WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, March 17, 11 pm Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign
General Review for midterm. Study Guide is available here.
None
None

Week 7:  March 4, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday,March 4 Watch Week 7 podcast
ADME Principles
None.  Lecture notes can be downloaded here N/A You are strongly encouraged to watch this prior to the Thursday night session!
Sunday, March 8, 11 pm RE-read Chapter 21-35; read about drug metabolism, ADME, and Cytochrome P450 on Wikipedia    WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, March 10, 11 pm Lab: Drug Assessment of Fluoxetine
WebAssign
WebAssign You will need this Drug Assessment Form (Microsoft Word)

Week 6:  February 25, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, February 25 Watch Week 6 podcast
Part A
Part B
None.  Lecture notes can be downloaded here N/A Two parts!
Sunday, March 1, 11 pm Read Chapter 3. pages 90-110 in "Medicinal Chemistry WebAssign
WebAssign
Monday, March 2, 11 pm QUIZ! WebAssign WebAssign Counts as TWO homeworks!
Tuesday, March 3, 11 pm Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 5: February 18, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, February 18 Watch Week 5 podcast
None.  Lecture notes can be downloaded here. N/A Best viewed in iTunes
Sunday, February 22, 11 pm Read Chapter 2. pages 61-63 in "Medicinal Chemistry WebAssign
WebAssign This activity also includes questions from the lecture/podcast!
Tuesday, February 24, 11 pm pKa Analysis of 9 Experimental Drugs
WebAssign
WebAssign

Week 4:  February 11, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, February 11 Watch Week 4 podcast
None N/A Cick on the link at left, download to your computer, load into iTunes
Sunday, February 15, 11 pm Read Chapter 2. pages 37 - 59 in "Medicinal Chemistry WebAssign
WebAssign Webassign
Monday, February 16, 10 pm Stereochemistry WebAssign
WebAssign
WebAssign Webassign problems. There is a short tutorial in the Tutorials section
Tuesday, February 17 Drug Solubilities Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign See the Sample Technical Memo for assistance in preparing the final product. There are also several iTunes tutorials in the Tutorials section

Week 3: February 4, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, February 4 Watch Week 3 podcast/lecture
None N/A This lecture is available on Elluminate under "Recordings" for Feb 5, 2009
Friday, February 6, 11 pm Read Chapter 3. pages 75-87 in "Medicinal Chemistry WebAssign
WebAssign
Monday, February 9, 11 pm Functional Group Binding Mechanisms
WebAssign
WebAssign
Tuesday, February 10 Lead Drug Modification Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign Consider partnering with one of your colleagues!

Week 2: January 28, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, January 28 Watch Week 2 podcast/lecture
None N/A Available on GoCourse under Week 2 OR by clicking on the link at left, download to your computer
Sunday, February 1, 10 pm Read Chapter 1. pages 21 - 35 in "Medicinal Chemistry WebAssign
WebAssign Webassign
Monday, February 2, 10 pm Study Guide: Organic Nomenclature
WebAssign
WebAssign Webassign problems
Tuesday, February 3 Drug Structure Lab
WebAssign
WebAssign This lab will be done during residential weekend.  You should download this Excel file for your data!

Week 1: January 21, 2009

Date Assignment Deliverable How to submit Special Notes
Wednesday, January 21 Watch Week 1 podcast/lecture
None N/A Available on GoCourse under Week 1  OR by clicking on the link at left, download to your computer
Thursday, January 22 Review WebAssign Student Guide
None N/A Students are expected to know how to use WebAssign
Thursday, January 22 Read journal article: Career Profile of a Medicinal Chemist
None N/A
Friday, January 23 Read Chapter 1. pages 1-21 (Sections 1.1 through 1.5) in "Medicinal Chemistry WebAssign
WebAssign Webassign, 20 questions from the reading, due 11 pm, January 23
Sunday, January 25 Study Guide: Organic Nomenclature
WebAssign
WebAssign Webassign problems, 19 organic structure problems, due 10 pm, January 25
Thursday, January 29 Lab #1: Potential Energy Scan of a Simple Compound
WebAssign
Upload one page file to WebAssign One page lab abstract with copy of your PES chart, due 10 pm, January 27. There is a short tutorial available on GoCourse
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