Category Archives: Student posts

At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, you can buy cakes and other desserts in the cafe that are inspired by works of art in the museum. Seeing as we talked about Piet Mondrian, and how his paintings look … Continue reading →

This is an example post. This is also a great example of an artist’s view of a chromosome! Krista Shapton is the artist.  Her work can be found at kshapton.com

Just a small update on my project. I just powered through 4 leaves and 1 petal of Rubisco, and it’s not taking as long as I thought, which is awesome! Hopefully I can power through another 7 and assemble it … Continue reading →

Hello! Sorry it’s been so long… I recently thought about my project again, and I realized that I didn’t like the leaf idea so much. I’m leaning toward the idea of “5 hot dogs”, as I described in class! So, … Continue reading →

Hey guys, I’ve been thinking lately on how to portray prions in an artistic way. One thing I thought of was origami. Origami is something that I’ve been into for a while, and I think it represents prions well. It’s … Continue reading →

Hey everybody! Thanks to my wonderful friend, Irena, this account will now have multiple personalities. So for this post, I’m Michael, and after weeks of many difficulties, I think I finally found a protein! Rubisco (ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase)! A lot … Continue reading →

I found these pictures of collagen on google..I am still thinking this is the protein I want to represent but still not sure how. I think I still need to get a better sense for the collagen structure itself, because … Continue reading →

Being a psychology major, I am interesting in proteins that affect human thought and behavior. Some common “psychological molecules” that I hear about in my psychology course are cortisol, adrenaline, oxytocin, estrogen and testosterone. This morning I have been looking … Continue reading →

I hope this works now..

Hello everyone! I have been looking through the protein data bank and I’m interested in a few, but I think Myosin is particularly interesting as it is critical for any movement that you make! It was the Molecule of the … Continue reading →

Hello! Currently I’m looking at antifreeze proteins, also known as ice structuring proteins, which permit the survival of certain organisms, namely fish, plants, insects, and microorganisms, in subzero environments. I’m very interested in extremophiles and their abilities to survive in … Continue reading →

I choose RecA. In MB 310, I learned about RecA and its role in DNA repair. It’s also listed as the molecule of the month (April 2014) on RCSB PDB.

Hello! I have a few ideas in mind…but I’m not certain which protein I should choose. There are two proteins that are actually in David Goodsell’s “Molecule of the Month”! One is prolactin (April 2004), a growth hormone present in … Continue reading →

Hi All – After some research, the protein that I seem to be gravitating towards is Ricin. I find it interesting how lethal this protein is and think it would be fun to find a creative way to depict how … Continue reading →

I’ve been really interested in the operation of the immune system for a while now, I was thinking about creating some sort of representation of one of the Major Histocompatability Complex (MHC) proteins on macrophages in the body.

Hey guys, I thought I’d do a protein in the form of a prion. Prions are something that I’ve always been curious about. Still narrowing down which one I want to do. Thoughts?

I’ve been thinking about what protein I want to represent, and I knew I wanted to do something that either repaired damage in the skin or was a major component in the skin. I want to go into dermatology one … Continue reading →

Just testing 🙂

I’m glad to see the blog up and running again! Ever since biochem I have a fascination with 7TM receptor proteins. The rhodopsin protein is especially intriguing to me, so I am heavily leaning towards using it as my protein … Continue reading →

Hey! Hopefully this works!

Hi again, I couldn’t resist… here’s another beautiful 3D portrait by Rebbeca Kamen: I appreciate very much an artist who is inspired by science! On Monday, please remind me to tell you a beautiful story about Bonnie Hall (1931–2004) who … Continue reading →

Hi students, I have alerted the experts to our problem and hope to get our technology problem figured out by Monday.  And so, if over the weekend you happen to receive a request to join the blog, please, if you … Continue reading →

Here is the link to the video I showed in class:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjdPTY1wHdQ

Dynein is a motor protein complex involving many different proteins. Some PDB IDs for different sections of dynein are as follows: LC8/IC/TCTEX complex: 3FM7 IC/LC7 complex: 3L7H Heavy Chain(Legs): 3VKG

While I was working on my project this weekend, I came up with a new idea! Instead of myosin and actin I am now looking at EMILIN-1. This protein is responsible for the formation of elastic fiber. This gave me … Continue reading →

I’ve narrowed my protein choice down to 1JNV. It’s an ATP Synthase protein from E. Coli.   http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=1JNV

In the CATH classification system, the “Mainly Beta” parent node (at the C level) has a child node known as “Sandwich” (at the A level) whose representative domain structures include over 18,000 known structures.  That’s a lot of sandwiches. Looking … Continue reading →

Why it is good to tinker (according to Francois Jacob) In 1977, Francois Jacob, fresh from his pioneering studies of gene transcription with Jacques Monod, delivered a stimulating lecture on the topic of Molecular and Evolutionary Tinkering at UC Berkeley (later published … Continue reading →

I was thinking of building a protein/proteins by folding paper into shapes like these http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=3S4G http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore/explore.do?structureId=4AED This origami structure is made up of flowers glued together. The virus looks like it has flowers embedded too!

I am going to make a series of 5 or so T-shirts with chemistry-cat style puns on them using common proteins that people who don’t know a ton about science will (hopefully) still get. I’ll include a simple line drawing … Continue reading →

I love doing jigsaw puzzles so I decided that I would create a protein jigsaw puzzle.