1. Mount Mary College CREST educational materials Dr. Colleen Conway, Associate Professor of Chemistry Nicole Fischer, Senior Biology Major

2.  Advantages ◦ Students construct their own knowledge ◦ Students remember and learn more ◦ Students guided to do critical thinking  Disadvantages ◦ Most models used are 2-D

3.  Physical models

4.  Interactive  Guided  Molecules from Protein Data Base (PDB) website

5.  Importance  Approaches ◦ Lecture ◦ Guided inquiry

6.  Protein structure tutorial ◦ Primary through quaternary  Enzyme function ◦ Specificity ◦ Active site ◦ Control ◦ Inhibition

7.  Hosted at CBM (Center for Biomolecular Modeling)  Link Link

8.  Focus on learning objectives  Focus is dynamic

9.  Search pdb.org for proteins  Create scripts ◦ HTML ◦ Source codes

10.  Zoom  Rotate  Color  Flash

11.  Thinking in three dimensions ◦ Preliminary results  Home access to computers/internet  Classroom management

12.  Center for Biomolecular Modeling ◦ Dr. Margaret Franzen  Mount Mary College ◦ Sciences Department ◦ Dr. Maureen Leonard  National Science Foundation Grant ◦ DUE-1022793