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February 8th

• "Preparing for health professional school" - Invited Guest: Cindy Parker, Colby Career Services

February 15th

• "Acute Aspirin Overdose, A Case Study"

February 22nd

• "Biopharmaceuticals" - Invited Guest: Dr. Tanya Schneider, EnviroLogix
  
      Dubel, 2007
      Ladner, et al., 2004
      Sato, et al., 2006
      Walsh, 2005

February 29th

• "Protein Homology Searching, A Case Study"
  
      Sequence Similarity Searching information page
      BLAST homepage

March 7th

• "Hemoglobin dynamics"
  
      Spahn and Kocian, 2005 (please don't feel as though you need to read the entire paper, just enough to answer the questions)

March 14th

• Exam 1

March 21th

• "Enzyme Kinetics"

March 28th

• Spring Break!

April 4th

• "Activating Mineralocorticoid Receptor Mutation in Hypertension Exacerbated by Pregnancy" - Invited Guest: Dr. Charles Jacobs, Maine Medical Center
  
  Rather than give you study questions, your task is to come up with 2 or 3 good questions to ask Dr. Jacobs about this paper. Try to ask questions other than "What does 'X' mean?" You are expected to utilize other resources to put the paper in proper context.

April 11th

• "ELISAs and Veterinary Diagnostics"

    FeLV Virus Antigen Test Kit Instructions

April 18th

• "Membrane Transport via Protein Transducing Domains"

    Matsushita and Matsui (2005)

April 25th

• Exam 2

May 2nd

• "Genetic Metabolic Disorders" - Invited Guest: Dr. Mike Antoniello, Maine Medical Center
      The reading can be found at this website. Click on and read all the "Topics" subheadings ("Amino acid metabolism" "Carbohydrate metabolism" etc.). There aren't any specific discussion questions, but pick a couple of the discussed diseases and think of questions that involve the intersection of biochemistry and medicine. Have fun!

May 9th

• TBD

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