Biological Chemistry B: New Enzymes from Directed Evolution Experiments
This highly intense and ambitious course teaches molecular evolutionary methods and principles of biological chemistry. Several teams of two students create and characterize individual enzyme variants for a specifically designed research project, addressing a fresh set of questions every year. Thus, neither the students nor the mentoring team (and the lecturer) know the outcome at the onset of the course, which integrates theory with hands-on learning and state-of-the-art publishable research.