User:David L. Nelson

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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