Chemistry BC3254y: Literature Reports

Periodically during the semester, you will select an article from the primary scientific literature that is relevant to a topic  recently covered in the course, and give a 8 to 10 minute oral report about it to the class.  Lists of suggested articles will be available, but you are encouraged to find different articles on your own (SciFinder recommended).  These may be recent articles using concepts we have been studying, or related articles of historical interest.  The work described may be experimental, theoretical, or both.  Please check with me that the article is appropriate.  If you choose an article from the list below, tell me your choice: one article per person, first-come first-served.  Feel free to come ask questions.

Your report need not be a complete review of the paper.  The focus should be some aspect of what the authors have done, how they did it, and how it relates to a topic from class.  If the article is not from the list supplied, save a copy in pdf format so it is available for the class: send it to me by-e-mail, and I will post it, or e-mail it yourself and retrieve it in 805.  If you wish to prepare a few Powerpoint slides, that is fine, but is not required.

Suggested articles on Topics II for Friday, April 11:
Statistical Thermodynamics and Transport Properties

Matthew D. Burke,  Jung O. Park, Mohan Srinivasarao,  Saad A. Khan, Macromolecules 2000, 33, 7500-7507
"Diffusion of Macromolecules in Polymer Solutions and Gels: A Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy Study"

P. Cacciania, J. Cosleou, F. Herlemont, M. Khelkhal, J. Legrand, Eur. Phys. J. D 22, 199-207 (2003)
"Experimental determination of spin-rotation and spin-spin magnetic interactions in 13CH3F by nuclear spin conversion"

James L. Cole,  JeVrey W. Lary, Thomas P. Moody, Thomas M. Laue, Methods in Cell Biology 84 (2008) 143-179
"Analytical Ultracentrifugation: Sedimentation Velocity and Sedimentation Equilibrium"

Antonio Fernandez-Ramos, Benjamin A. Ellingson, Ruben Meana-Paneda, Jorge M. C. Marques, Donald G. Truhlar,  Theor Chem Account (2007) 118: 813-826
"Symmetry numbers and chemical reaction rates"

Tobias Lamkemeyer, Bettina Zeis, Heinz Decker, Elmar Jaenicke, Dieter Waschbusch, Wolfgang Gebauer, Jurgen Markl, Ulrich Meissner, Morgane Rousselot, Franck Zal, Graeme J. Nicholson, Rudiger J. Paul, FEBS Journal 273 (2006) 3393-3410
"Molecular mass of macromolecules and subunits and the quaternary structure of hemoglobin from the microcrustacean Daphnia magna"

Daniel Lavalette, Mark A. Hink, Martine Tourbez, Catherine Tetreau, Antonie J. Visser, Eur Biophys J (2006) 35: 517-522
"Proteins as micro viscosimeters: Brownian motion revisited "    Shenjuti

Christopher A. MacRaild, Danny M. Hatters, Lynne J. Lawrence, Geoffrey J. Howlett, Biophysical Journal 84 (2003) 2562-2569
"Sedimentation Velocity Analysis of Flexible Macromolecules: Self-Association and Tangling of Amyloid Fibril"

Vladimir A. Makarov, Michael Feig, B. Kim Andrews, B. Montgomery Pettitt, Biophysical Journal 75(1998) 150-158 
"Diffusion of Solvent around Biomolecular Solutes: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study"

Y. Sun, X. Li, N. Duzgunes, Y. Takaoka, S. Ohi, and S. Hirota, Biophysical Journal 85 (2003), 1223-1232
"The Shape Parameter of Liposomes and DNA-Lipid Complexes Determined by Viscometry Utilizing Small Sample Volumes"   Xiao

Viola Teske, Eckhard Vogel, Eckard Bich, J. Chem. Eng. Data 2005, 50, 2082-2087
"Viscosity Measurements on Water Vapor and Their Evaluation"