| Week | Day | Topic | Assignment Due, Supplemental Reading Available, or Textbook Chapter Discussed |
| 1 | Wednesday, 26 Aug | Course Overview | Chapter 1 |
| Friday, 28 Aug | Amino acids, Protein Structure and Protein Folding | Chapter 2 | |
| 2 | Wednesday, 2 Sep | ||
| Friday, 4 Sep | Exploring Proteins and Proteomes | Chapter 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 | |
| 3 | Wednesday, 9 Sep | Chapter 2 and 3 Mop-up Day | Chapter 2: The Anfinsen experiment, Protein folding, Inherently disordered proteins and Chapter 3: Western blotting, Mass spectrometry, the Edman sequencing reaction and protein sequencing |
| Friday, 11 Sep | Hemoglobin: Structure and Function | Chapter 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 | |
| 4 | Wednesday, 16 Sep | ||
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| 5 | Wednesday, 23 Sep | Test 1 | |
| Friday, 25 Sep | Enzyme Kinetics | Chapter 8 | |
| 6 | Wednesday, 30 Sep | ||
| Friday, 2 Oct | Catalytic Strategies | Chapter 9.1, Chapter 9.2 |
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| 7 | Wednesday, 7 Oct | ||
| Friday, 9 Oct | Regulatory Strategies | Chapter 10 |
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| 8 | Wednesda, 14 Oct | ||
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| 9 | Wednesday, 21 Oct | Test 2 | |
| Friday, 23 Oct | Carbohydrates | Chapter 11 | |
| 10 | Wednesday, 28 Oct | ||
| Friday, 30 Oct | Lipids and membranes | Chapter 12 | |
| 11 | Wednesday, 4 Nov | Lipids Cont'd | |
| Friday, 6 Nov | Biomolecular Signaling | Chapter 14 | |
| 12 | Wednesday, 11 Nov | Nucleotides and Nucleic Acids | Chapter 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6 |
| Friday, 13 Nov | DNA Replication | Chapter 29.1 and 29.3 | |
| 13 | Wednesday, 18 Nov | RNA Synthesis (Transcription) | Chapter 30.1 and 30.2 and Chapter 31 |
| Friday, 20 Nov | Protein Synthesis (Translation) | Chapter 31.1, 31.2 and 31.3 | |
| 14 | Wednesday, 25 Nov | No Class Thanksgiving Break | |
| Friday, 27 Nov | No Class Thanksgiving Break | ||
| 15 | Wednesday, 2 Dec | Test 3 | |