Dr. Li teaches Lab Research Methods (LABMP551/PHS513). The office hours for PHS513/LMP551 are 2:00-4:00 on Thursdays, or by appointment. (Dr. Li's office is located at 10-102 Clinical Sciences Building).
| Laboratory Methods Lecture Schedule (from Winter Term 2003) |
| Date | Topic |
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| Jan. 8 | Basics of Quantitative Analysis, GLP, and QA/QC. (Assignment 1). |
| Jan. 15 | Aqueous acid-base chemistry, introduction to biomolecules: amino acids, proteins, DNA and RNA. (Assignment 2 - calculate pH of buffers and solutions). |
| Jan. 22 | Trace Elemental Anaysis and Spectroscopy methods. (Guest lecture - Dr. Chris Le) |
| Jan. 29 | Basics of Chromatography - HPLC&GC. Introduction to research paper writing (ACS style book). |
| Feb. 5 | Chemical Speciation (Dr. Chris Le). |
| Feb. 12 | Experiment on separation: Arsenicals in water. (Research paper). |
| Feb. 19 | Reading week, no class (work on research paper). |
| Feb. 26 | Electrophoresis- gel, isoelectric focusing, and capillary. (Research paper is due). |
| Mar. 5 | Mass spectrometry. |
| Mar. 12 | Experiment on MS analysis of proteins or GC/MS analysis of DBPs (choose one). |
| Mar. 19 | DNA and PCR - lecture and experiment. (The 2nd experiment report due). |
| Mar. 26 | Bioinformatics: Web tools for protein and DNA research. |
| Apr. 2 | Statistical analysis. (Guest lecture - Dr. Senthilselvan). |
| Apr. 9 | Presentation on the term paper. |
| Term paper (a proposal on your research project, 5-10 pages) is due on April 14, 2003 |
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