Learning Outcomes: 1. Determine whether biochemistry is a major they want to pursue and defend that decision based on knowledge of the biochemistry major at UW-Madison
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Establish connections within the biochemistry department community including interacting with faculty
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Discuss the career opportunities available to individuals with biochemistry and/or life science backgrounds
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Identify resources available at the university that will support success at UW-Madison
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Describe the format and content of a scientific paper
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the nature of science and what science can tell us.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Gain an appreciation for the beauty of biology and the remarkable diversity of life on earth.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Discuss fundamentals of the evolutionary process and the molecular basis of how cells and organisms operate.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Appreciate the range of how science is presented and sometimes misrepresented in the media.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Equip students with the ability to inform their own decision making as they encounter scientific topics that may influence their daily life.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply basic molecular biology laboratory techniques to engineer and test bacteriophages
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate good laboratory habits such as, keeping laboratory records, following laboratory safety standards, working collaboratively, and maintaining a clean working environment
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Develop hypotheses and evaluate experimental results with instructor support
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific ideas and results verbally and in written form
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Discuss the collaborative nature of biochemistry
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop critical, analytical, and independent thinking skills through a scientific research project
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Apply the scientific method and engage in constructive problem solving in a scientific research project
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Demonstrate application of research skills and methodologies through a research project
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate a clear research question or problem and formulate a hypothesis
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify appropriate research methodologies and collect sound scientific data
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply critical thinking skills to interpret laboratory data and apply problem solving skills to constructively address research setbacks
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Practice research ethics and responsible conduct in research
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Communicate scientific ideas and results verbally and in written form effectively
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply basic concepts of protein and enzyme structure and function
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Differentiate structures of lipids and their biochemical roles
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Differentiate structures of carbohydrates and their biochemical roles
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Differentiate structures of nucleic acids and their biochemical roles
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Apply chemical concepts involved in both anabolic and catabolic pathways
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Explain basics of gene expression and regulation
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Describe fundamentals of cancer and certain viral diseases
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Apply concepts learned in coursework to authentic professional situations
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate professional skills appropriate for the industry
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify and reflect on how concepts learned in coursework apply to specific work settings and situations
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how biomolecules store, transmit, and receive information to carry out cellular functions, such as catalysis, information transfer, energy production, and biosynthesis
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Explain how molecular interactions drive the formation of macromolecular structure, including protein, lipid, nucleic acid, and carbohydrate structure
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Recognize and identify the molecular structure of the building blocks for proteins, lipids, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates and describe how their structure relates to their biological function.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe the process of DNA replication, DNA repair, RNA transcription, and protein synthesis
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Relate the chemical structure of metabolites and the pathways through which they flow to how cells use those pathways for both biosynthesis (anabolism)and energy production (catabolism
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Analyze the major anabolic and catabolic pathways of central metabolism in terms of energetics, molecular structure, hormonal control, and regulation
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Recognize that all life on earth shares a common ancestor as illustrated by the use of the same genetic code and the existence of common biochemical pathways between all organisms
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Relate the chemical structure of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids to their respective biological functions
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Analyze the molecular interactions that drive the formation of macromolecular structure, including protein and nucleic acid structure
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply qualitative and quantitative descriptions of protein-ligand, enzyme-substrate, and enzyme-inhibitor interactions, enzyme catalysis, and enzyme kinetics to interpret experimental data in terms of biochemical mechanism
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Describe how biomolecules store, transmit, and receive information to carry out cellular functions
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Analyze the major catabolic pathways of central metabolism in terms of energetics, chemical structure, and regulation
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Connect biochemical processes to applications in medicine, agriculture, food science, and other aspects of everyday life
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Communicate with others about scientific concepts and ideas using the vocabulary of biochemistry
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Compare the molecular biology process of DNA replication, RNA transcription and protein synthesis between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Assess the investment of cellular energy during nucleic acid, protein carbohydrate and lipid synthesis
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Predict the outcome of disruptive mutations and diseases on nucleic acid, protein, carbohydrate and lipid synthesis and hormonal signaling
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Relate the chemical structure of metabolites to their functional role and amount of energy produced when oxidized
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Distinguish cellular and organ signaling pathways and their downstream effects on metabolism
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Predict how metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids changes depending on the supply of energy to the body disease state
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Relate molecular processes in biochemistry to medicine and agriculture
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand nutrient metabolism in normal and disease states
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Integrate the regulation of metabolism of nutrients under normal and disease state conditions.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Understand the biochemical and molecular functions of nutrients we consume
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Apply how nutrients affect pathogenesis and health
Audience: Graduate

5. Think critically about nutrient claims and fads using your knowledge of nutritional biochemistry.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Integrate current research in the area of metabolism and micronutrient function into existing knowledge and formulate new hypotheses to guide future research
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss the theory of several fundamental biochemical techniques that form hypotheses based on biochemical principles
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Form hypotheses based on biochemical principles
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Design and perform experiments to address a hypothesis
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Collect sound scientific data
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Critically analyze one’s own data as well as data from other sources
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Communicate scientific theory and findings in both oral and written form
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Evaluate the importance of collaboration in biochemistry research
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically evaluate, and accurately describe findings from primary research publications
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Analyze how genetic and cell cycle perturbations contribute to cancer progression
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Identify how genetic and environmental factors impact altered cellular metabolism in cancer
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe biochemical mechanisms that contribute to cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain biochemical techniques, engineering strategies, and state-of-the-art technologies used in biomedical research
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Collaborate with peers in a small group
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Apply knowledge of biochemical principles and biotechnology to solve research and disease treatment related problems
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Execute written critical evaluation of primary research literature related to the molecular basis of human diseases and advances in biotechnology.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and recognize fundamental members of the predominant families of RNA and DNA viruses that affect animals (humans included) by causing viral diseases, including AIDS, cancer, flu, and COVID-19
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe and demonstrate the basic concepts of virus particle structure and the biochemical mechanisms for entry and multiplication of diverse RNA and DNA viruses
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Recognize and apply the basic principles of virus transmission and viral pathogenicity, combined with the factors that contribute to virus emergence and evolution, to situations involving virus outbreaks that affect global health
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Identify and evaluate individual steps in a virus' replication cycle that can be effectively targeted by anti-viral drugs for pharmaceutical intervention of virus diseases
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Design effective strategies for a) prevention of infection through development of viral vaccines and b) treatment of diverse human diseases by gene therapy through the design and administration of genetically engineered virus vectors
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Use knowledge gained in lecture to critically assess primary literature and data presented in the weekly Molecular Virology Seminar Series
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify basic stereochemical principles of protein components
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe the chemistry of amino acids
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Describe the noncovalent forces that control the secondary and tertiary structure of proteins
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Evaluate the fundamental strengths and weaknesses of structures determined by X- ray crystallography and electron microscopy
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Explain chemical kinetics as they apply to enzymes
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Differentiate the role of cofactors in enzyme chemistry
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Explain the fundamental underpinnings of protein stability, protein evolution, and their application to protein engineering by site-directed mutagenesis
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Distinguish the key features of representative enzymes families including the ATPases and the peptidases
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

9. Compare the differences and unique properties of membrane proteins
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

10. Critically evaluate the primary biochemical literature regarding protein structure, function, and enzyme catalysis
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall and state the formal definitions of the mathematical objects and their properties in systems biology (e.g., reaction networks, reaction rate equations, mass-action kinetics models, detailed balanced and complex balanced systems, Lyapunov functions, etc.).
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Use such definitions to argue that a mathematical object does or does not have the condition of being a particular type or having a particular property (e.g., reversible, weakly reversible, mass-action, detailed balanced, complex balanced, globally stable, oscillatory, persistent, permanent, etc.).
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Recall and state the standard theorems of the field (e.g., the Horn-Jackson theorem, the deficiency zero theorem, theorems on characterization of mass-action systems, theorems on persistence and permanence, theorems on dynamical equivalence, etc.) and recall the arguments for these theorems and the underlying logic of their proofs.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Construct mathematical arguments related to the above definitions, properties, and theorems, including the construction of examples and counterexamples.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Convey arguments using English and appropriate mathematical terminology, notation and grammar.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Model real biological systems by means of systems of differential equations, and be able to use software (such as Matlab) for visualization of their dynamics. Example models could include: (i) Enzymes, substrates and saturating kinetics, (ii) Glycolytic oscillations, (iii) Cell cycle control, budding yeast cell cycle models, (iv) Activator-inhibitor and positive feedback systems.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Identify applications of course content in current areas of research.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Access and evaluate original research literature.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Demonstrate problem solving practices.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Identify enzyme mechanisms responsible for transcription, translation, gene regulation, and replication in bacteria.
Audience: Graduate

4. Compare the structural bases for the mechanisms.
Audience: Graduate

5. Evaluate the experiments that led to our understanding of theses mechanisms.
Audience: Graduate

6. Deconstruct how these enzymes respond to nutritional and environmental signals in cells.
Audience: Graduate

7. Outline the evolutionary basis and selection pressure for these mechanisms in vivo.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe regulatory mechanisms at the organ, cellular and biochemical level controlling intermediary metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids and proteins
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify regulatory points in metabolic pathways and explain how they may change with metabolic state
Audience: Graduate

3. Detail the changes and mechanisms underlying such changes in protein, carbohydrate and fat metabolism in changing physiological state and also in health vs disease state
Audience: Graduate

4. Evaluate modern experimental approaches for studying metabolism
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Recall core principles that govern the structure and function of DNA, RNA, and protein.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Describe techniques for quantifying the expression, interaction, and cellular localization of specific molecules and for determining their necessity and sufficiency in molecular processes.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Explain how molecular processes that control the synthesis, decay, interactions, localization, folding, and modification of molecules are silenced, initiated, maintained, and terminated.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Describe how information is transferred between molecules to alter cellular activity in response to developmental and environmental signals.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Critique and weigh the credibility of existing molecular data.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Develop and draw hypotheses that use existing data to account for as yet unexplained molecular processes in eukaryotic organisms.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

7. Design discovery/observation, loss-of-function, and gain-of-function experiments to test molecular hypotheses.
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

8. Implement problem solving strategies in thesis research project.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how CO2 and other nutrients are converted to various metabolites in plants through different metabolic pathways
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Employ various analytical tools used in the field of plant biochemistry
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Apply critical scientific thinking skills (e.g. how to read literature, critically evaluate data, and identify unresolved questions) to support scientific arguments
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Synthesize and critically evaluate scientific claims and hypotheses
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify stereochemical, electronic, and spatial constraints on enzyme reactions
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Integrate principles from general chemistry, organic chemistry, basic biology and biochemistry to clarify how vitamins and minerals (cofactors and coenzymes) function in living systems
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply precise terminology when speaking and writing about biochemistry and organic chemistry principles
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe the plant life cycles and key concepts in plant development
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

2. Explore and compare experimental approaches to study breeding systems, recombination, and modes of trait segregation in plants, including quantitative traits
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

3. Explain genetic, epigenetic and genomic approaches to study plant growth, development and responses to the environment
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

4. Analyze and interpret data in plant genetics and development
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

5. Critically evaluate papers from the primary literature
Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad

6. Compare and contrast published experimental data that address specific biological questions in plants, use the corresponding information to develop novel hypotheses, and design experiments that test these hypotheses.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the mechanisms by which tissues maintain metabolic flexibility.
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Differentiate between how lipid metabolism regulates carbohydrate metabolism and vice versa.
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Describe the regulation of lipogenesis.
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Discuss how hormone secreting endocrine cells in the pancreas sense nutrients to regulate blood glucose.
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Explain the importance of intracellular lipid cycling for body temperature regulation.
Audience: Undergraduate

6. Discuss the manner in which mitochondrial metabolism is assessed.
Audience: Undergraduate

7. Examine hormonal regulation of circadian rhythms.
Audience: Undergraduate

8. Describe the basis for thermogenesis.
Audience: Undergraduate

9. Explain the pathways leading to inflammation.
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review and analyze scientific literature
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and use appropriate research methodologies to address a research question
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Begin structuring and writing a thesis based on original research
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review and analyze scientific literature
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and use appropriate research methodologies to address a research question
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Begin structuring and writing a thesis based on original research
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Review and analyze scientific literature
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify and use appropriate research methodologies to address a research question
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Write a thesis based on original research
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Effectively communicate scientific findings in an oral and/or written format
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Articulate a clear research question or problem and formulate a hypothesis
Audience: Undergraduate

2. Identify appropriate research methodologies and collect sound scientific data
Audience: Undergraduate

3. Apply critical thinking skills to interpret laboratory data and apply problem solving skills to constructively address research setbacks
Audience: Undergraduate

4. Practice research ethics and responsible conduct in research
Audience: Undergraduate

5. Communicate scientific ideas and results verbally and in written form effectively
Audience: Undergraduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Evaluate and apply fundamental concepts and best practices in bioscience research conduct and research ethics
Audience: Graduate

2. Identify and meet individual and professional responsibilities and obligations to society
Audience: Graduate

3. Explore and implement activities for professional skills development and career management
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Be able to describe the chemical basis for replication, transcription, translation and how each of these central processes can be expanded to include new chemical matter.
Audience: Graduate

2. Develop skills to critically read the literature and effectively communicate research in a peer setting.
Audience: Graduate

3. Describe the substance and importance of chemical biology research in the format of a cover letter to a journal editor, and an original figure.
Audience: Graduate

4. Demonstrate knowledge of chemical biology by designing an original research project that focuses on answering a biological question or solving a biomedical problem.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand the chemical principles underlying the structure, dynamics, interaction, and function of biological molecules
Audience: Graduate

2. Design experiments to test a particular hypothesis using various techniques
Audience: Graduate

3. Analyze, interpret, test, and share experimental data
Audience: Graduate

4. Understand how biochemical principles are derived from primary experimental data and practice developing broader biochemical insights from experimental data
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Differentiate different types of scientific writing, including the goals, audience and components of research papers, review articles, and proposals
Audience: Graduate

2. Analyze the structure of scientific arguments
Audience: Graduate

3. Write about their own research and field of science, both retrospectively (research papers and review articles) and prospectively (proposal), utilizing the strategies previously identified to synthesize data or the literature, organize the work, and construct a convincing scientific argument at the appropriate level for the target audience to demonstrate mastery of these concepts
Audience: Graduate

4. Create figures that clearly, accurately, and concisely convey scientific information to support the written words
Audience: Graduate

5. Revise their scientific writing to improve clarity, organization, language, and to better achieve the rhetorical goals of the piece
Audience: Graduate

6. Develop a scientific poster to visually and orally communicate scientific data and results
Audience: Graduate

7. Compose one piece targeted to non-scientists
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss current topics of active interest in molecular biophysics
Audience: Graduate

2. Evaluate primary research literature in molecular biophysics
Audience: Graduate

3. Design and interpret experiments in molecular biophysics
Audience: Graduate

4. Conduct rigorous research in molecular biophysics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss state-of-the-art research in nutrients and genetic regulation of metabolism
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate scientific research and critically evaluate experimental results
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss current topics, cutting-edge research approaches, and next challenges in molecular virology
Audience: Graduate

2. Deliver an effective research presentation
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop an understanding of current research questions in the field of RNA biology
Audience: Graduate

2. Become familiar with the approaches used to study RNA and its interactions with proteins
Audience: Graduate

3. Build a professional network with other RNA biologists on campus
Audience: Graduate

4. Develop techniques for presenting complex concepts to a diverse audience
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss how methods from computer science, statistics, information science and engineering are applied to problems in biology, medicine and population health
Audience: Graduate

2. Recognize and be able to define applications in translational bioinformatics, clinical informatics and public health informatics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Present on current research in membrane and organelle dynamics
Audience: Graduate

2. Interpret and evaluate the results and conclusions in primary research publications related to membrane and organelle dynamics
Audience: Graduate

3. Apply critical scientific thinking skills to supporting scientific arguments
Audience: Graduate

4. Discuss background literature in membrane and organelle dynamics
Audience: Graduate

5. Discuss methodologies and analytical tools used to study membrane and organelle dynamics
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss state-of-the-art research in gene expression and regulation
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate and critically evaluate experimental results
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss state-of-the-art research in single molecule biophysics
Audience: Graduate

2. Communicate and critically evaluate experimental results
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Critically analyze data and conclusions reported in current literature on synthetic biology
Audience: Graduate

2. Summarize and present the findings of a scientific article
Audience: Graduate

3. Lead and contribute productively to discussions of current research in the field
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Synopsize recent and classic research literature about membrane proteins structure and function, including relevant methods, biological systems, or general principles.
Audience: Graduate

2. Critically analyze data and conclusions presented in research literature, present it with clarity and discuss it with peers.
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss research conducted by Biotechnology Training Program trainee peers’ labs and the biotechnological applications thereof
Audience: Graduate

2. Examine industrial applications of biotechnology through internship presentations
Audience: Graduate

3. Communicate with a broad scientific audience
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Discuss recent published research in chemical biology and related areas
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply tools used in research at the chemistry–biology interface
Audience: Graduate

3. Demonstrate professional and ethical responsibility in research
Audience: Graduate

4. Communicate and critically evaluate published research with scientists with diverse backgrounds and interests
Audience: Graduate

Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate graduate-level research skills and techniques
Audience: Graduate

2. Apply the biochemical principles that underlie all biological processes
Audience: Graduate

3. Address research challenges using a broad range of theories, research methods, and approaches to scientific inquiry
Audience: Graduate

4. Formulate and design new approaches that extend biochemical principles beyond their current boundaries
Audience: Graduate