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Protein Modeling

142nd APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition (November 15 - November 19, 2014): http://www.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual
Saturday, November 15, 2014 : 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

Kathleen Vandiver, M.A. in Vascular Physiology, M.A. in Teaching, Ph.D. in Cell Biology and Anatomy , Center for Environmental Health Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Using a kit of novel amino acid models, participants in teams of two will be able to build protein chains and fold the chains according to some simple rules and create a functioning protein. Next, participants will construct a model of a membrane channel protein to explain why a change in the amino acid sequence could produce a non-functional molecule. This non-functional molecule causes a well-known disease.  In this session, participants will become aware of the critical relationship between a protein’s amino acid sequence and its functional shape.

Learning Areas:

Basic medical science applied in public health
Environmental health sciences
Implementation of health education strategies, interventions and programs
Public health biology
Public health or related education
Public health or related nursing

Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate a specific structural protein created by constructing and folding a protein chain from molecular models of amino acids and explain why the order of the amino acids matters.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Dr. Kathleen Vandiver earned her Ph.D. in 1982 from Tufts University School of Medicine, Anatomy and Cellular Biology Department, and her M.Ed. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education in 1990 with Massachusetts teacher certification, General Science 5-9 and Biology 9-12. Dr. Vandiver taught science in the Lexington Public Schools for sixteen years and has presented workshops in genetics for high school and college instructors, nurse and health professionals, and nurse faculty across the country.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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