This is the brand new BCH4053 Laboratory Manual. Both the manual design and its content have been revised in order to provide you a more relevant and educational experience in biochemistry laboratory concepts and techniques.

In our efforts to raise the quality of instruction in this lab, we have not only created several new experiments but have refocussed the intent of the overall lab itself. It is our goal, that upon satisfactory completion of this lab you will be able to walk into any biochemical research lab in the country and be able to function immediately as a competent and contributing member of that lab.

To that end, labs that were previously only observational are now investigative in nature. We have also added a pre-laboratory assignment to each lab, designed to teach you the preparative steps you would be required to take in order to perform these experiments when doing research.

At the conclusion of each laboratory experiment, you will be required to write a report on your findings. The report format is based on the submission criteria for the ACS publication Biochemistry which provides a template for its authors. Yet again this new criteria for reports is designed to give you a "leg up" in your preparation for work at the next level, be it graduate school or medical school.

Finally, as with any new product, there are bound to be typos and places for improvement. Please notfiy us if you find any errors or typos in the text of this manual. And please feel free to make suggestions as to how we can improve the manual for the next class. Constructive criticism is always welcome.