Structural and Chemical Biology
Faculty contact: Susan Taylor (staylor@ucsd.ed)
Participating Faculty
The Structural and Chemical Biology Focus Area provides training in macromolecular structure and function, chemical and molecular recognition, and small molecule design. X-ray crystallography, NMR, mass spectrometry, and computational approaches are used to understand protein folding, macromolecular interactions, and protein dynamics. Researchers in this area benefit from the resources at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). UCSD is also home for the Protein Data Bank (PDB) , a unique worldwide repository for macromolecular structure data. There is a strong, highly interactive, and highly interdisciplinary program that spans many departments from Physics, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Bioengineering as well as the Salk Institute.
Students specializing in Structural and Chemical Biology take the Biomedical Sciences core curriculum, specialized classes in Molecular Structure, Biological Data & Analysis Tools, and Biophysical Methods for Analyzing Structure and Dynamics.
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