Director:  Terrance G. Oas, Ph.D. The Program in Structural Biology & Biophysics is an interdisciplinary program offering a Certificate in Graduate Studies in a highly collaborative atmosphere. Graduate students have the opportunity to participate in research in any of the seven participating departments. The program focuses on research endeavors that use physical measurements to study biological macromolecules and their interactions. Students devote their first year of study to course work and three lab rotations before choosing a department for their degree studies. Sixteen superimposed protein disulfide bonds in the most commonly observed left handed spiral conformation.  Dots depict a spiral of favorable van der Waals contacts made to surrounding atoms. (Image produced with the program MAGE from the Richardson laboratory and program PROBE, written by Molecular Biophysics student Michael Word.)   For further information, contact: Lorena S. Beese, Ph.D. Director of Graduate Studies Structural Biology & Biophysics Program Duke University Medical Center Box 3567, 406 Nanaline Duke Durham, NC 27710 919-681-8825 sbb@biochem.duke.edu

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