Overview
Description
While the biosynthetic pathways of primary metabolite production are highly conserved, the pathways that produce specialized metabolites are not under the same selective pressures allowing for the evolution of a highly diverse suite of metabolites distributed across diverse taxa. This course explores this diversity and the function of these natural products from the ecology and evolution of the organisms that make them to the humans that use them.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- recognize different classes of compounds and discuss where they are found, their biosynthetic origins, their function in natural systems, and their role in human health.
- grasp the various approaches available in quantifying natural products and apply them.
- develop the tools to investigate natural products related topics, including specialized databases and primary literature searches.
- critically assess primary literature, including the research design and methodological approaches.
- identify approaches to merge multivariate chemical and biological datasets.