Student Projects

From Proteopedia

Below are listed pages in Proteopedia that were originally created by students. To search for a molecule, use the Find function of your browser (Windows: Ctrl-F; Mac: Cmd-F).

2021-2025

• 2024: Semaglutide and GLP-1 were created by students of a Biochemistry 1 course at Westfield State University at a time where use of GLP-1 analogs was surging. At the same time, Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor was substantially updated to reflect new structural results. Student contributors are acknowledged on each page.

• 2022: Students of a Biochemistry 2 course at Westfield State University showcased enzymes of the folate-dependent one carbon cycle: Methionine synthase, Methionine adenosyltransferase, Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and Thymidylate synthase.

2016-2020

• 2019: Students of the interdisciplinary honors seminar "Art and Science of 3D Molecular Animation" studied the molecular basis of the opioid crisis in the US and made molecular animations. As an outgrowth of this work, one student (User:Cameron Young) created the page Tutorial:The opioid receptor, a molecular switch.

• 2018: Analysis and presentation of structure and function of the K-RAS protein was the end-of-degree project of Carlos Vázquez-García, a student of the Degree in Pharmacy at the University of Alcalá (Spain), focused of the analysis and display of structural features of the protein, interaction with ligands, etc. (Article in Spanish, includes English abstract. Published also as http://hdl.handle.net/10017/27238)

• 2018: Analysis and presentation of structure and function of the HIV gp120 protein was the end-of-degree project of Carolina Castro-Hernández, a student of the Degree in Biology at the University of Alcalá (Spain), focused of the analysis and display of structural features of the protein, interaction with other proteins and ligands, etc. (Article in Spanish, includes English abstract)

• Pages by students at at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, in collaboration with Prof. Jeremy Johnson were featured in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education:
  • Glucagon G protein-coupled receptor with contributions from students Steven Bennett, Sydney Caskey, Alexis Coulis, Olivia Murfield, Allie Paton, Dean Williams.
  • Lysophosphatidic acid receptor with student contributors Heather Hansen, Stephanie Kuhlman, Chandler Mitchell & Clayton Taylor.
  • Glutamate receptor 5, metbotropic with student contributors Connor Coatney, Kurt Corsbie, Cutter Koehlerm & Dan Schemenauer.

2011-2015

• Triose Phosphate Isomerase by graduate student Greg Snider, featured in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.

• Pages by students at at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, in collaboration with Prof. Jeremy Johnson were featured in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education:
  • Dipeptidyl peptidase IV with student contributors Josh Morris & Nicole Risselmann.
  • Fatty acid amide hydrolase with student contributors Rachel Erkilla, Melissa Jones, Daniel Lange, & Carter Sharp.
  • Human GPR40 (hGPR40), also known as Free Fatty Acid Receptor 1 (FFAR1) with student contributors Jacob Applegarth, Whitney Hart, Blake Moskal, & Brittany Stankavich.
  • Hormone sensitive lipase with student contributors Nathan Holt & Derek O'Connor.
  • Monoglyceride lipase with student contributors Steven Han, Dominique Stephens, Erica Yothment & Greg Zemtsov.
  • Palmitoyl protein thioesterase with student contributors Andrew Bartels, Nicole Green, Kelly Maddalone, Ryan Mughmaw & Audrey Wright.
  • RNase A
    • RNase A NMR
    • RNase A Oligomers
    • RNaseA Nobel Prizes
  • RNase S and RNase B

• Pages that are collaborations between students at La Cañada High School and students at the University of Southern California, mentored by Remo Rohs (see Group:USC-LCHS), were featured in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education:
  • Hox protein
  • P53-DNA Recognition

2006-2010

• 2010: Daniel Eddelman while a senior at Wabash College, majoring in Biology and minoring in Chemistry, developed a page on Citrate Synthase that was published to the public space as part of his class. This formed the foundation for the current topic page and lead to his inclusion in publication of this work in 2011. Other student projects from the class are linked at Glycolysis_Enzymes and Citric Acid Cycle.

• 2009: Understanding of the Recruitment of HDACs by MEF2, Based on Their Structure was authored by graduate student Ricardo Alchini as a result of participation in a class taught by Eric Martz and Keiichi Namba in Osaka, Japan.

• 2008: Photosystem II was authored by Emily Forschler while she was a senior biochemistry major at Messiah College (Grantham PA US) in a class taught by Karl Oberholser. Professor Oberholser reported "I think that Emily's work on Photosystem II shows that Proteopedia is a system that a Jmol novice can use with good effect. Emily had no experience with using Jmol. The other students in the class ... [made] PowerPoint presentations of their chosen proteins, and after seeing Emily's Proteopedia presentation one student's response was all of us should have used Proteopedia. Thank you for a great product!"

University of Massachusetts CBI Program

Dozens of pages created by graduate students in the Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Program the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, designed for incorporation into the Molecular Playground, are listed under CBI Molecules.

Art

Artistic representations of biochemical subjects will be found under Art. Many of these are by students.

See Also

• Teaching Scenes, Tutorials, and Educators' Pages.
• Teaching Strategies Using Proteopedia
• Adoptions in University Classes