Physical & Chemical Properties of Water Webinar
- Wet Your Appetite for Learning with the Water Kit©!
- Aquaporin Channels
Description
Wet Your Appetite for Learning with the Water Kit©!
Jim Lane, Mahtomedi High School
Whether breaking bonds, dissolving NaCl or exploring states of matter your students will be captivated by the magnetic Water Kit©. The versatile kit will engage students in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, earth science or physical science and its usefulness spans, from middle and high school to college.
Aquaporin Channels
Tim Herman, PhD, 3D Molecular Designs
Explore the structure of aquaporin channels and how they allow water to pass through membranes. Hear how the exploding frog egg experiment led Peter Agre’s lab to realize that the mystery protein was indeed a water channel. A few years later, this work resulted in a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Dr. Agre.
Session Resources
- Presentation Slides PDF
- Presentation Slides PowerPoint
- Peter Agre's biography on the 2003 Nobel Prize Site
- 1992 Agre paper on the exploding frog egg experiment
- Water moving through the aquaporin channel, Theoretical, and Computational Biophysics Group
- 2000 Murta paper describing the structure of aquaporin