Courses at ISTA.
Creativity in research is based on solid theoretical knowledge. Courses taught by Paul at ISTA (and elsewhere) cover topics related directly to structural biology and NMR. A new cross-disciplinary course focuses on energy and our impact as scientists.
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy for Structural Biology and Chemistry This one-semester (28 lectures) course introduces nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, its quantum-mechanical foundations, instrumentation, signal processing and applications.
Advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Spin Relaxation This course delves into nuclear spin relaxation and its use to study molecular motion in solution and under magic-angle spinning.
Advanced Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Magic-angle Spinning NMR This course introduces the theoretical foundations and practical aspects of magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR.
Advanced Structural Biology. In this course, taught together with other structural biologists at ISTA, lays the theoretical foundations of the key techniques for structural biology. In practical sessions, participants gain hands-on experience.
Protein Function, Structure and Dynamics. A lecture that introduces key concepts to understand how proteins behave, including their chemical properties, and essential physical chemistry such as thermodynamics, interactions and dynamics.
Understanding Quantitatively Environmentally Important Aspects of Society and Science This lecture, held together with Giorgos Katsaros and Jeroen Dobbelaere from ISTA, addresses the link between energy and greenhouse gas emissions, with a particular focus on being quantitative. We investigate our (ISTA, scientists) activities and ask, for example, how much academic travel contributes to our carbon footprint, using concrete data from out institute.