Toobers and Tacks

The conversations today centered around foam coated wire and colored push pins as the students created short amino acid sequences.

Students built and rebuilt the sequences using a loaned kit from the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

As I walked around the room, bending and twisting of the toobers created a variety of shapes of polypeptides. It was a great visualization of amino acid impact on protein folding.

Cool stuff.

A folded protein