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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Chemical Biology by University of Geneva

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About the Course

Chemical biology is a burgeoning field that has rapidly risen to prominence. This surge of interest has been fuelled by chemical biology’s applicability to understanding critical processes in live cells or model organisms in real time. This success has arisen because chemical biology straddles a nexus between chemistry, biology, and physics. Thus, chemical biology can harness rapid chemistry to observe or perturb biological processes, that are in turn reported using physical assays, all in an otherwise unperturbed living entity. Although its boundaries are endless, the multidisciplinary nature of chemical biology can make the field seem daunting; we beg to differ! Here, we deconstruct chemical biology into its core components, and repackage the material. In the process we build up for each student a practical and theoretical knowledge bank that will set these students on their way to understanding and designing their own chemical biology experiments. We will discuss fluorescence as a general language used to read out biological phenomena as diverse as protein localization, membrane tension, surface phenomena, and enzyme activity. We will proceed to discuss protein labeling strategies and fusion protein design. Then we will discuss larger and larger scale chemical biology mechanism and screening efforts. Highlights include a large amount of new data, tailored in the lab videos, and a large number of skilled presenters....

Top reviews

MB

Dec 12, 2021

Amazing instuctors! Fabulous course, albeit challenging. I'd recommend it for those with a solid backgroud on related fields: Biophysics, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biology, Genetics, etc.

SB

Apr 1, 2021

Un curso interesante, que reúne múltiples conceptos física, química y biología para poder darnos un mejor entendimiento del mundo nanométrico y de su gran importancia. Muy recomendable

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By Азимбай Е Қ

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Oct 15, 2024

Курс білімді арттыруға мүмкіндік берді!

By Ananta

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Jan 18, 2023

Lots of new things one can learn.

By Mohamad r h

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Nov 17, 2022

EXCELLENT

By Daniel Y

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Jul 30, 2022

Interactive study tools, engaging instructors, and concise materials! My only complaint would be the mildly inconvenient typos scattered across the course materials. I would recommend anyone wishing to understand chemical biology and even system biology to take this course!

By Gregg D

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Jan 23, 2024

The course was very interesting and offered new information in experimental techniques that I previously was not aware of. Great videos and readings but it would be nice to have some type of hard copy textbook, otherwise I would have given 5 stars.

By samane s

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Apr 28, 2023

The module and instructors were great but the course overall was a very difficult subject to understand. I passed with average of 84% and I barely passed the assignments. Thank you for sharing this course. >.<

By Mmabale D M

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Jun 14, 2021

iinformative

By María B

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Sep 17, 2024

El curso esta bien, los contenidos están interesantes pero no me gusta que traducen las preguntas, y cambian el signfiicado de todo, además de que algunas estaban mal redactadas.

By Viola L

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Aug 26, 2024

It's a really hard course. I couldn't understand a lot of what was going on even though I took Honors Chemistry, Honors Biology, Honors Physics, and AP Chemistry. I don't know if it's because I'm slow but this is way too advanced to be considered only "intermediate" level. However. overall, the stuff I could understand was interesting.