Focused Topics in Biochemistry

Current courses – Overview

For students that have one unpaired BCH2024 course, the 1/4 credit courses can be taken as a the second half of the BCH2024 course – you will receive an email from Carrie Harber detailing how you can enroll for these courses. For all other students, these courses will now be stand alone 1/4 credit courses and you will register to them through ACORN.

Enrollment Limit – The number of students will be generally between five and 20, but this varies with each course. See individual course sites for more details.

Note, if enrollment for a course is 5 or less it is up to the discretion of the course coordinator as to whether the class will be held or cancelled.

Non-Biochemistry Students: These courses will be available to all non-Biochemsitry students to request through ACORN as follows:
Fall 2024 modules: September 1, 2024 – September 18, 2024 (last day to add Fall courses)
Winter 2025 modules: December 1, 2024 – January 22, 2025 (last day to add Winter courses)

**Important note for non-Biochemistry students – if you have one unpaired BCH2024 course, then you must contact carrie.harber@utoronto.ca to sign up for the second 1/4 module as per the deadlines listed above. Do not enroll through ACORN as your grades must be recorded under BCH 2024H Y – Focused Topic in Biochemistry.

Current Courses for 2024 – 2025

More information can be found regarding each course using the Course link.
All courses are 1/4 credit unless specified.
1/4 credit courses can not be dropped if more than one class has been attended unless approved by the course coordinator.
BCH21xx courses are open to all grad students.
BCH22xx courses are only open to PhD students.

Fall 2024 Winter 2025
BCH2101H Scientific Skills for Biochemists
Course Coordinators:
Trevor Moraes
Required for all incoming BCH grad students
BCH2105H Cystic Fibrosis: The Cause, The Treatment

Course Coordinators: Christine Bear
January 9, 2025 start date

Winter 2025

BCH2201H Professional Development

Course Coordinator: Nana Lee
Sept 26 – Dec 12, 2024

(Available to PhD students only)

BCH2112H From Chaperones to CRISPR-Cas: the Incredible Genius of Phages

Course Coordinators: Karen Maxwell & Alan Davidson

May 2025 (Dates TBC)

JBB 2026H Protein Structure, Folding and Design

Course Coordinators: Hue Sun Chan & Julie Forman-Kay

BCH2115H Applying Modern Evolutionary Thinking to Biochemistry, Cell, and Molecular Biology

March 1 – May 20, 2025
Course Coordinator: Alex Palazzo

MMG 1318H Cytoskeletal Dynamics

Course Coordinators: Andrew Wilde
Cross listed course with BCH
Nov – Dec (dates TBC)

BCH2120H Studies of Tissue Barriers: Regulation of Phenotype and Transport Across the Epithelium and Endothelium

Course Coordinators:  Warren Lee & Andras Kapus

 

BCH2126H Subcellular Social Networks: Inter-Organelle Contact Sites

Course Coordinator: Peter Kim

Oct – Nov (date TBC)

BCH2125H Structure and Dynamics of Biomacromolecules Using Solid State NMR Spectroscopy

Course Coordinator: Simon Sharpe

BCH2123H Protein Structure Prediction and Homology Modelling

Course Coordinator: Gil Prive
Oct 2 – Nov 13, 2024

BCH2135H Mitochondria and Metabolism in Human Health and Disease

Course Coordinator: Angus McQuibban

Cancelled

BCH2122H The Use of High Content Screening in Biomolecular Medicine

Course Coordinators: Robert Screaton & David Andrews
Sept 16 – Dec 2, 2024

BCH 2200H Design Thinking for Scientists

Course Coordinator: Nana Lee

March 6 – May 22, 2025

(Available to PhD students only)

BCH2114H Frontiers in Drug Discovery

Course Coordinator: Roman Melnyk
Oct 21 – Dec 2, 2024

BCH 2139H Islet Biology I: From Gene to Cell to Organ to Disease

Course Coordinators: Robert Screaton, Erin Mulvihill

MMG 1313H Membrane Proteomics in Biomedical Research

Course Coordinators: Oliver Ernst and Igor Staglar
Cross listed course with BCH
Oct 23 – Nov 27

BCH 2140H Islet Biology II: Beyond Glucose Control: Molecular Targets, Diagnostics and Cutting-Edge Technologies
Course Coordinators: Robert Screaton, Erin Mulvihill
BCH 2138H Advanced Electron Microscopy 

Course Coordinator: John Rubinstein
Sept 5 – Oct 22

 

 

 

Enrollment Limit

None

Last Updated 3 February 2025