Integrating bio-inorganic and analytical chemistry into an undergraduate biochemistry laboratory

Inorganic and Bio-inorganic Chemistry

Reflections on my career in analytical chemistry and biochemistry

My career has been focused in two major areas, analytical chemistry and biochemistry of complex lipids and glycoconjugates. Included here are the pioneering work on the gas chromatography of long-chain sphingolipid bases, carbohydrates, steroids and urinary organic acids. Mass spectrometry was utilized extensively in structural studies of sphingolipids, fatty acids, carbohydrates, steroids, uri...

Announcement: Eighteenth Conference on Coordination and Bio-Inorganic Chemistry

The conferences on coordination chemistry held regularly in Slovakia, have a long tradition. The First Conference of this kind was organized in 1964. The Conferences took place in Smolenice Castle that was adapted for the needs of the conferences and similar events and serves now as a Congress Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Many top coordination chemists from all over the world atten...

Journal club as a supplement to the undergraduate biochemistry laboratory.

After purification of lysozyme, our biochemistry students write a research proposal that outlines a strategy for studying this enzyme after alteration by site-directed mutagenesis. Despite a literature search that yielded a wealth of background information, students were often overwhelmed by the assignment because they were not familiar with advanced techniques of protein analysis. We therefore...

Inorganic Biochemistry