CCMAS Course Search

Classification and nomenclature of enzymes; Isolation and purification of enzymes; Specificity of enzymes action; Kinetics of single substrate enzyme catalyzed reaction; Enzyme inhibitions; Kinetics of multi-substrate enzyme-catalyzed reaction; Investigations of the structures of active site of enzymes; Applications of enzyme technology; immobilized enzymes; Use of enzymes in industries; medicine; agriculture etc; Ligand binding; Kinetics of multi-binding sites; Adair's equation; Sigmoidal kinetics and allosteric enzymes; MWC and KNF models of allosteric regulation; Sigmoidal kinetics in the absence of cooperative binding; Kinetics of fast reactions; Structure and mechanism of catalysis; Recent Advances in enzyme Technology

Membrane structure and function; Membrane-linked phenomena; ion transport; Morphology of membranes; Membrane biogenesis; Membrane carbohydrates and cell surface specificity/antigenic projection; Ionophoric antibiotics; Membrane dynamics; Excitable membranes; Neurotransmitters; Membrane receptors and signaling/transduction; Photobiology; Photosynthesis and Calvin cycle; Recent advances in Membrane research; e.g; roles of liposomes etc

Review of intermediary metabolism of carbohydrates; proteins; lipids and nucleic acids; Recent advances in these areas; Regulations of metabolism; enzymatic and hormonal; Neurochemistry and neurological disorders

Scripting; use of computer programme; installation of programs and navigation; Sequence BLASTING; gene sequence alignment; primer design; Phylogenetic analysis; protein alignment; Data mining

Biostatistics: Definition; scope and applications; Presentation of data; Overview of measures of central tendency; Chi square test; Scientific writing I; (a) Biostatistics; Population and sample size; Sampling distribution; Research design; Study of some classical papers for experimental design and presentation of data; Normal; Binomial and Poisson distributions; Tests of significance; Students t test; Analysis of variance (ANOVA); One way and two way ANOVA; Regression Analysis; Simple and multiple regression; Overview of non parametric tests; Statistical packages; Graphpad Instat; Minitab; SAS; Epi Info; and SPSS

The immune system; Structure and functions of primary and secondary lymphoid organs; Chemistry and biological properties of immunoglobulin; Antibody diversity; antigen; and the complement system; Inflammation; macrophages; leucocytes; phagocytosis; Abnormalities in the immune system; Immuno-oncology; HIV; etc; Immunochemical techniques

The biochemical industry: an overview of manufacturing and allied industries involving biochemistry at the various operation levels (viz; R D & P; raw materials processing; production; quality control/assurance; etc); Role of biochemistry in selected manufacturing and allied industries: dairy; brewing; cosmetics; food concentrates textile; laundry; etc (use of enzymes; natural products; etc); Raw materials biochemistry: science/technology of large-scale (commercial) production of industrial enzymes; vitamins; food additives; natural products; antibiotics; etc from plants; animals and microbes for the industry; expert market; economics etc; Science/technology of food concentrates; fruit juice etc; production; Biotechnology; Industrial analytical biochemistry: quality control and assurance; the public analysts; analytical kits RD&P

Biochemical concept of clinical state; metabolic derangement in diseased state e.g gout; cholera; cancer; anaemia; kwashiorkor; Biochemical basis of and lesion in genetic diseases e.g; sickle cell anaemia; etc; Case studies on metabolic defects e.g human haemoglobin and molecular diseases; e.g sickle cell anaemia; Glucose-6-phophate dehydrogenase deficiency; Disorders of carbohydrate and lipid metabolisms (Diabetes; plasma lipid and coronary heart disease; cholesterol partition in plasma lipoprotein); Inborn errors in metabolisms; Molecular parasitology: Isolation; fractionation and culture of parasites; Comparative metabolic reactions of malarial parasite; trypanosome; and other parasites; Chemotherapy and resistance; Plasma isoenzyme profile in disease state; Plasma protein and A/G ratio; Liver function test; Case studies on metabolic defects; phenylketonuria; orotic aciduria and pseudohyperparathyroidism

Bacterial and viral chromosomes; Bacterial plasmids; Replication; transcription and translation of prokaryotic genomes; Regulation of protein biosynthesis; Transposons as mobile genetic elements; Eukaryotic chromosome and its ultrastructural organization; DNA synthesis in eukaryotes; Biochemical aspect of cell division; cell cloning and cell fusion; Biochemistry of growth and differentiation in eukaryotes; Principle of PCR technique; Isolation and purification of RNA and DNA; Hybridization techniques; Recombinant DNA technology and proteomics applications (e.g; production of insulin; drugs etc); Microarray; Genetic engineering and its social implications