BI281H: Biochemistry and Cellular Physiology

Visuals for class discussions from BI281H, taught at the University of Oregon in Fall, 2017.

Course objectives

• Survey the key molecular and cellular features shared by all organisms on earth, revealing how life can be understood in physical and chemical terms.
• Begin to develop intuition and analytical tools to think about life quantitatively and molecularly.
• Introduce several key, universal systems that are shared across organisms:
  • Serine protease
  • Hemoglobin
  • Glycolysis/gluconeogenesis
  • Citric Acid Cycle
  • Electron transport chain
  • ATP synthase

How to use this repo:

View currently hosted material:

View visuals

Download and host locally:

• Fork the project on github and then clone it locally.
• Run install-grunt.sh in the man directory. Hit Enter at all prompts. This will install grunt dependencies in the directory. I have tested this on an Ubuntu machine. You might have to tweak npm install for your environment.
• In the cloned directory, type grunt serve. This should load index.html in your default browser.

Download and host on github:

If you have a gh-pages branch, github will host this material directory.

• Fork the project on github and then clone it locally.
• Push changes to the gh-pages branch: git push origin gh-pages
• Access via https://harmsm.github.com/bi281h-discussions, replacing harmsm with your own user name.

Organization:

Four main types of content:

• Visuals (material I showed as slides). The base directory has discussion_xx.html that hold this material. The material for each discussion -- images, videos, etc. -- are all in the presentation-data/xx/ directory for that discussion.
• Board work: material I scribbled on the board. These are a bit chaotic, but live in the board-work directory.
• Handouts: material I handed out in class.
• Worksheets: worksheets I handed out that we worked through during class.

License:

Course material is made available under the unlicense. I have attempted to credit all source material I used to construct the visuals where appropriate. Reveal.js presentation technology is released under their own license (see LICENSE_reveal.js).

Notes:

This is built on the reveal.js platform (check it out!): https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/