Protein Engineering

Catalog description

Prerequisites: Biochemistry and Cell & Molecular Biology are encouraged but not required. Students will apply principles of molecular biology and protein engineering to improve the properties of a selected protein. Computational tools and experimental methods will be applied to mutate and enhance the characteristics of proteins, which will hopefully lead to publishable results. Students will have to think about the subject creatively and use more than just knowledge from a textbook to solve the challenges encountered in the course.