Suggested Book List
Introduction
As Biochemistry Graduates, we have to thank those who are involved in the orientation activities. The Introduction Booklet prepared by the Biochemistry Society is neat, informative, and interesting. However, the booklist prepared by our graduates is not enough. With the suggestion from William and Anthony, we have added some books that are worth reading. The components added are written in italics. We are sorry we have to print the new version of booklist separately. Any comments and suggestions are highly welcome.
A very warm welcome to the family of Biochemistry Class here in HKU. After 7 years in high school, it's cheerful to have 3 years of U life in HKU, which is one of the most memorable and challenging parts in your life. Hope all of you will seize the chance to learn, to explore, to savor, and the most important, to enjoy. Be it in hall, in class, or in lab, all those bits and pieces that you will be experiencing will certainly weave into colorful fabric, which will make your U life unique to everyone.
When I was a Biochemistry Student, I have agonized for days about which book I should buy and which book I should borrow. And I, of course, don't want the freshmen or the juniors in our class to suffer from this problem again and again. Hope this book list will be of help to all of you.
The O Camp organizing committee has devoted their time and effort to make this o camp a great success. Do enjoy your o camp, and enjoy the following 3 years of U life here in HKU!!!
Authors: William & Anthony
Typing: Raymond (MSN: lapson18@hotmail.com)
Content
[For those marked with an asterisk "*", you may just borrow or photocopy the book, just mainly because you will only use part of those books for just 1 or 2 course(s).]
A. Please prepare yourself with a Medical Dictionary. Personally, I suggest DORLAND'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY (pocket size).
B. Core Biochemistry Textbook
- Lehninger Principles of Biochemistry
- Biochemistry, Lubert Stryer, 5th edition of Stryer Biochemistry can be read from www.pubmed.com, I think the 4th edition (red one) is more comprehensive
- Instant notes for Biochemistry, Springer
- Biochemistry, Voet and Voet *
- Physical Biochemistry, KE van Holde * (Hydrodynamic Method) (Suggested by Jessie for the course "Protein Structure and Function" and "Advanced Biochemistry", Very detailed quantitative treatment, I prefer the "Principles and Techniques")
- Enzyme Kinetics: A steady state approach, by Paul C. Engel, a small booklet on enzyme kinetics, for the course "Advanced Biochemistry 2"
C. Core Molecular Biology Textbook
- Instant notes in molecular biology
- Gene VII *
- Molecular Biology of the gene (Ed. Watson) OR Molecular Biology of the cell (Either ONE), MBC can be read from the page www.pubmed.com
- Gene cloning and DNA analysis : an introduction / T.A. Brown. (Molecular Biology Techniques)
Other references for Molecular Biology:
- Molecular Cell Biology *
D. Book(s) for Lab Courses
- Gene cloning and DNA analysis: an introduction / T.A. Brown
- Principles and Techniques of practical biochemistry, Cambridge Press (Important for many courses like Essential and Advanced techniques, physical biochemistry in Advanced Biochemistry 2)
- I personally DO NOT RECOMMEND the book " At the bench", which is concerned with the administration of a lab.
- Analytical biochemistry, by Holme and Peck, for lipid analysis in year 3 advanced technique
Anthony's Suggestion:
Personally, I do not suggest fellow students to take the "Instant notes" series as textbook since the information in these books is not complete and sometimes wrong. For Enzyme kinetics courses I suggest the book -"Enzyme kinetics : behavior and analysis of rapid equilibrium and steady-state enzyme systems " by Irwin H. Segel
For more information in molecular genetics, you may consult the books - "Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual Volume 1-3" and - "Principles of medical genetics" by Thomas D. Gelehrter, Francis S. Collins, David Ginsburg
For the molecular developmental biology in the course Molecular Biology of the Gene, you may consult the books - "Principles of development" by Lewis Wolpert et al, - "Analysis of biological development" by Klaus Kalthoff and - "Developmental biology" by Scott F. Gilbert
For the course "Understanding Metabolic Diseases" -"The metabolic & molecular bases of inherited disease"
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