Category: Webinar
Celebrate World Water Day! Webinar
- Engage with Water Molecules!
- Aquaporin Channels
Description
Engage with Water Molecules!
Alice Scheele, Patrick Henry High School Engage your students’ senses – touch, sight and hearing with the magnetic Water Kit© and see the amazing ways your students can model the physical and chemical properties of water from hydrogen bonding and surface tension to transpiration and dissolving ionic bonds. Don’t forget the tetrahedral arrangement of water molecules!Aquaporin Channels
Tim Herman, PhD, Director, Center for BioMolecular Modeling 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
- Structure, Function and Dynamics of Aquaporin, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
- Water moving through the aquaporin channel, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
- 2000 Murta paper describing the structure of aquaporin
