User:David L. Nelson

Undergraduate majors in biology, chemistry; PhD with Arthur Kornberg, Stanford Medical School; Post-doc with Gene Kennedy, Harvard Medical School; now Professor of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Director of the Center for Biology Education. I have taught the introductory course in Biochemistry at Wisconsin for 40 years, and I am co-author (with Mike Cox) of the textbook Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry. I am co-PI on an HHMI grant to Jim Keck (University of Wisconsin) and Tim Herman (Milwaukee School of Engineering) for dissemination of Herman's program Students Modeling a Research Topic (SMART), in which high school students learn to use computer graphics to explore a protein's structure, learn about the structure function connections, and produce a three-dimension model of this protein by rapid prototyping. I am also co-teaching, with Michael Patrick (Emeritus Professor of Genetics) a course for pre-service science teachers, Exploring the Biomolecular World, in which students hear lectures on the history of biochemistry, on basic biophysics and its relevance to protein structure and function, and the development of 3-D models for teaching biology and biochemistry