COURSES TAUGHT
The Association for Mass Spectrometry: Applications to the Clinical Lab. Microbiology 201 :Mass Spectrometric Methods of Microbial identification
An intensive short course focused on bottom-up and top-down mass spectrometry-based proteomics and small molecule analytical techniques for identification of microbes, the use of imaging mass spectrometry in microbiology, and screening for antibiotic resistance.
Biochemistry Summer Field Session CHGN390
Applied microbiology and bacteriophage biochemistry module focused on introduction to hands-on field collection, laboratory isolation and molecular characterization of environmental isolates. Methods taught include contemporary differentiation, protein extraction and separation techniques and MALDI-TOF MS protein profiling.
Biochemistry I CHGN428
Introductory study of the major molecules of biochemistry-amino acids, proteins, enzymes, nucleic acids, lipids, and saccharides- their structure, chemistry, biological function, and biosynthesis. Stresses bioenergetics and the cell as a biological unit of organization. Discussion of classical genetics, molecular genetics, and protein synthesis.
Microbiology Laboratory
In development for initial offering Fall 2018. Dr. Cox is developing a completely new microbiology laboratory course. This course is designed to highlight the interface of microbiology with biochemical concepts and processes and teach top-down handling and analysis of bacteriophages and bacterial hosts and common biological laboratory materials and methods . At the same time this approach is intended to provide in-depth, hands-on exposure of key concepts as they are applied in the modern laboratory.