Splash Biography

COLIN DENISTON, UCSD biochemistry graduate student

Major: Chemistry and Biochemistry

College/Employer: UCSD

Year of Graduation: 2020

Brief Biographical Sketch:

I'm a 2nd year UCSD graduate student studying the structure of various biological macromolecules in the expanding field of cryo-electron microscopy, cryo-EM for short.

Past Classes

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S285: Macromolecular Architecture: How Chemical Structures Create Biological Functions in Splash Spring 2019 (Apr. 20, 2019)

This course focuses on a field of science called structural biology, which is concerned, among other things, with the structure and function of biological macromolecules. The course will walk students of all levels through classical examples of biochemical form and function, ending with what scientists today explore in the field and the tools they utilize for the job.