UCSD Biochemical Genetics

A Division of Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego
Also associated with the Society for Inherited Metabolic Disorders, (SIMD)

First Nyhan Symposium, 9 February, 2008, Skaggs Pharmacy, UCSD, La Jolla, California.  The "Scions of Nyhan" - a full-day symposium featuring several of those who passed through UCSD at formative times in their careers; now prominent in their own right, this will be an exciting symposium.  Look here for details.

Here is info about our laboratory and our affiliated Cystine Determination Laboratory and Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center.
Links to other sites of biochemical genetic interest are also listed.
Pages of useful tools and functions are being assembled here.

UCSDW3BG is a World-Wide-Web list of Biochemical Genetics laboratory services.
You may register to maintain your own lab's test list on UCSDW3BG.

Background: schematic of pathways of intermediary metabolism, after Alberts et al., Molecular Biology of the Cell.
 Produced 22-Sep-95. Bruce A. Barshop, M.D., Ph.D.
URL http://biochemgen.ucsd.edu/. Please email <bbarshop@ucsd.edu> for comments or questions.  

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Last edited: 09-May-2008