Courses

Principles of Laboratory Management: Organisational structure: concepts and models; Principles of Leadership: Past, Present, and Future; Management Functions; Managerial Problem Solving and Decision Making.
 Human Resource Management: Human Resource...

Overview of chemical thermodynamics: Internal, energy, enthalpy, entropy, Gibb’s free energy, laws of thermodynamics; Spontaneous and non-spontaneous processes; Free energy changes in biochemistry.
Principles of thermodynamics and their application to...

Data types; Discrete and ordinate data.
Simple definitions and Descriptive Statistics; mean, standard deviation, standard error of mean etc.
Statistical principles:  Importance of statistics; sampling from populations; Gaussian and non-Gaussian...

Metabolic control: Design of metabolic pathways. Regulatory enzymes fine control (allosteric, substrate/product feed- back and feed-forward controls, covalent modification) and coarse control (induction and repression of enzyme synthesis).  
Regulation...

General introduction: Coordination in multicellular organisms
Major classes of hormones: Mammalian, plants, insects.
Major endocrine glands: Hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenals, testes, ovaries, pancreas.
Biosynthesis and degradation of hormones: regulation...

The genetic code: Deciphering the code.  Universality and degeneracy of the genetic code.  Wobble hypothesis, colinearity of gene polypeptide.
Translation: Ribosome structure.  Activation of Amino acids.  Initiation, elongation and...

Purine and pyrimidine biosynthesis: Regulation of biosynthesis.  Structure and properties of nucleosides and nucleotides.  Biosynthesis of deoxyribonucleotides; thymidylate biosynthesis.  Salvage pathways. 
DNA and chromosome structure:...

Carbohydrates: Digestion of carbohydrates, glycolysis and fate of pyruvate in different organisms; tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle; pentose phosphate pathway and fate of reduced coenzymes; catabolism of monosaccharides other than glucose; gluconeogenesis,...

Glycosylation of proteins. Fibrous structural proteins. Structure and biosynthesis of collagen and elastin, intra-cellular and extra-cellular modification of proteins after translation. The collagen gene; disturbances in collagen synthesis. Diversity of...

Carbohydrates Metabolism: Digestion of carbohydrates, glycolysis and fate of pyruvate in different organisms; tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle; pentose phosphate pathway and fate of reduced coenzymes; catabolism of monosaccharides other than glucose;...