Robert J. Cohen

Associate Professor

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Florida

 

 


RESEARCH INTERESTS

physicochemical analysis of thermostable enzymes

theoretical/mathematical biology

signal transduction in micro-organisms: Phycomyces

  Current Research  Earlier Research   Publications  Phycomyces Bibliography

 


TEACHING-CURRENT COURSES


BCH 4024 General Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

General Metabolism and Glycolysis-Powerpoint Slides

Gluconeogenesis and Glycogen- Powerpoint Slides

TCA- Powerpoint Slides

ETS and OxPhos- Powerpoint Slides

Practice Exam for BCH 4024 -Carbohydrate Metabolism

DENTAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Introduction, Proteins, Amino Acids, Buffers, Peptides

buffer examples for dental students

Nucleic Acids, Ligand Binding, and Cooperativity

Enzymes

Regulation and Bioenergetics

 


My Education  Collaborators  Scientific Pedigree   Courses and Teaching Experience

 

 

 

 


 

AREAS OF INTEREST :

Signal transduction processes, vertebrate visual biochemistry, cyclic nucleotides,G-proteins, sensory and hormonal transduction in model micro-organisms,Phycomyces, adenylate cyclase, guanylate cyclase, cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, photobiology, ornithine decarboxylase, chitinase, fungal cell wall structure, composition and regulation, proteinase from extreme thermophilic archaebacteria, Pyrococcus furiosus, enzyme kinetics, nucleocytoplasmic exchange, theoretical biology, ischemia, physical biochemistry of nucleic acids, bioelectrokinetics, fast kinetics.


MODELS and PICTURES

 DNA in stereo

Transducin Interaction
Some Views of Simple Carbohydrates
FoF1 ATPase image
Phycomyces Growing on a Petri Plate


LINKS

 


email: rjcohen@ufl.edu