First Year Notes - Molecules and Cells

Macromolecules

Lecture notes

Cell membrane notes (By Shelly Choo)

Notes for all lectures in this section (By James Pirruccello)

Macromolecule lecture summaries (By Adrian Dokey)

Useful links

PubMed free online version of Berg & Stryer's Biochemistry (Thanks to Elizabeth Bell)

Amino acids quiz (Thanks to Elizabeth Laverriere)

Amino acids flashcards (Thanks to Joe Shader)

Guide to memorizing side chains (Thanks to Joe Shader)

Catalytic triad (Thanks to Kavitha Kolappa)

Molecular Biology and Genetics

[EL] Virus Multiplication (By Elizabeth Laverriere)

[EL] Virus-Host Interactions (By Elizabeth Laverriere)

[EL] Mechanisms of Viral Variation (By Elizabeth Laverriere)

[JP] Molecular Genetic Methods (By James Pirrucello)

[IA] Terms from molecular biology and genetics (By Ifeanyi Anidi)

[ST] Cancer genetics (By Shan Tang)

[SL] Outlines for most lectures in this section (By Sarah Lusk)

[KV] Prokaryotic replication, transcription, and translation (By Khinh Voong)

PubMed free online version of The Cell (Thanks to Chinedu Onyedike)

PubMed free online version of Human Molecular Genetics 2 (Thanks to Chinedu Onyedike)

Lac operon tutorial (Thanks to Chinedu Onyedike)

Lac operon summary (Thanks to Chinedu Onyedike)

Online genetics quiz (Thanks to Chinedu Onyedike)

Bacteriology, in Medical Microbiology (Thanks to Zita Shiue)

PCR in layman's terms or a more technical description (Thanks to Carolyn Senger)

Genetics animations such as a microarray explanation (Thanks to Mark Bicket)

Example of Bayesian probability in genetics (Thanks to Ming-ming Xu)

Tutorials on microarray experiments and Southern blot (Thanks to Lisa Patel)

Molecular biology review guide (By Julie Nogee)

Molecular biology and genetics lecture summaries (By Adrian Dokey)

Molecular biology notes from Memorial Univ (Canada) (Thanks to Benjamin Brinton)

Molecular biology lecture summaries: parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 (By Eike Blohm)

Genetics flashcards online or PDF version (By John Zampella and Aaron Wallman)

Genetics terms and definitions (By Eike Blohm)

Tutorials on homologous recombination and inbreeding (Thanks to Kate Buretta and Xuan le-Nguyen)

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center (Thanks to Amit Jain)

Genetics summaries parts 1 and 2; flashcards parts 1 and 2 (By Aaron Wallman)

Description of an alternative to the Ames test (Thanks to Anu Amin)

MSI Vocabulary Wiki (By Ben Brinton)

Cell Physiology

Outlines by Nirav Kapadia

[NK] Apoptosis

[NK] Blood

[NK] Cell Adhesion and the ECM

[NK] Cell Cycle

[NK] Chaperones and Protein Degradation

[NK] Connective Tissues

[NK] Cytoskeleton

[NK] Endocytosis

[NK] Epithelium

[NK] Exocytosis

[NK] Ion and Solute Pumps

[NK] Mitochondria

[NK] Muscle

[NK] Nucleus

Outlines by Elizabeth Laverriere

[EL] Signal Transduction in Cell Physiology

[EL] Programmed Cell Death

[EL] Mechanics of Cell Division

[EL] Chaperones, Quality Control, and Turnover

[EL] Cytoskeleton

Other resources

PubMed free online Molecular Biology of the Cell (Thanks to Chinedu Onyedike)

PubMed free online Molecular Cell Biology (Thanks to Chinedu Onyedike)

Notes keyed to figures from The Cell by Alberts et al. (By Mark Ball)

Summary of leukocytes and companion images (By Vivek Kalia)

Summary of all cell physiology lectures (By James Pirrucello)

Organelle targeting and translocation (By Jeff Tosoian)

Cell physiology lecture summaries (By Adrian Dokey)

Cell physiology lecture summaries parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and errata (By Eike Blohm)

Neurobiology lecture notes (includes action potentials) (Thanks to Xuan Le-Nguyen)

Nernst-Goldman equation simulator (Thanks to Anu Amin)

Summaries of cell physiology lectures (By Samuel Wilkinson)

Interactive animation on action potentials (Thanks to Allison Berry)

Cell physiology notes parts 1, 2 (By Aaron Wallman)

Diseases related to cell physiology (By Thomas Hanff and Camillo Molina)

Metabolism

Outlines by Nirav Kapadia

[NK] Amino Acid Metabolism

[NK] Cholesterol Synthesis

[NK] Citric Acid Cycle

[NK] Fatty Acid Synthesis

[NK] Gluconeogenesis

[NK] Glucose

[NK] Glycogen Metabolism

[NK] Glycolysis

[NK] Ketogenesis

[NK] Lipid Metabolism

[NK] Porphyrin and Nucleotides

[NK] Pyruvate Crossroads

[NK] Vitamins

[NK] Metabolic Enyzme Chart

Other notes & websites

Porphyrins and Lipoproteins (By Matthew Hellmann)

Porphyrin and Nucleotides (By Nevine Ali)

Glycolysis (Thanks to Matthew Hellmann)

Insulin, glucagon, and the pancreas (Thanks to Meraf Wolfe)

Vitamin B summary table (By Stephen Wreesman)

Metabolism summary in table form (By Catherine Distler)

Metabolism summary in narrative & table form (includes vitamin B guide) (By James Pirrucello)

Oxidative phosphorylation animation (Thanks to Lisa Patel)

Metabolism animations (Thanks to Lisa Patel)

Medical biochemistry (Thanks to Amar Patel)

Vitamin B table (By Megan Smith)

Metabolism lecture summaries (By Adrian Dokey)

Metabolism lecture summaries parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 (By Eike Blohm)

Metabolism summaries (By Samuel Wilkinson)

Metabolic Diagrams

Famous Biochemical Pathways Wall Chart (Thanks to Phil Gray)

Biochemical pathway diagrams (Thanks to Frank Corrigan)

Metabolic Pathways Chart (By Steven Hsu)

Diagrams of TCA cycle, pyruvate metabolism, pentose phosphate pathway, insulin & glycogen effects in liver, glycolysis, glycogen regulation, gluconeogenesis, and fatty acid metabolism (By Stephen Wreesman)

Metabolic pathways chart 1 and 2 (By Yuval Patel, thanks to Benjamin Briton)

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All documents posted herein that are not otherwise credited are authored by Raymond Cheong, Copyright 2004, All Rights Reserved. Outlines and other review materials not guaranteed to be error-free; consult course notes as needed; you may find it more useful to make an outline of your own; inform me if you find any errors so I can correct these outlines.