Awesome
I really loved taking Chem 1 with Prof. Cook. He's very fun to be around in class and he always jokes around with people in front. If you do not study, tests will blindside you. Doing the homework and coming to class is the easiest way for you to pass. He's very intelligent and he really expects a lot of work ethic. He's very fantastic! I would want to take him again.
Average
Prof. Cook is very intelligent! He makes a gen. chem class harder than it has to be. He also uses clickers for attendance every class. In-class questions are understandable, but tests are extremely hard. However, tests become easier as you go. Make sure you're focused if you go into class because it's quite impossible to recover.
Awful
Prof. Cook is terrible. He doesn't post assignments on canvas until the deadline or day before. He won't even try to remind you. He's also not accessible. Exams are tough and a lot of people actually fail. If you don't know how to do chem, do not take him.
Good
Professor Cook was pretty good. His exams were what really takes you. They are very math-based which sucks. However, you get partial credit as they were free response, which I really enjoy. To succeed in his class, you need to practice more on problem solving. He really wants everyone to succeed and did really tries to prepare us for later chemistry courses.
Average
Doctor Cook's class is for those that have time to go to SI sessions because they will save your grade. If you're balancing school and work getting a good grade is so much harder. Also, he does not do a lot of practice problems in class and all his tests are free-response. I suggest reading the textbook before class and going to many SI sessions.
Average
I would never recommend taking Doctor Cook at Chemistry 1314. This is the first class where I failed a test and studied a lot. His test is very heavy math, and not a multiple choice. Absolutely, attendance is mandatory and SI should be if you take his class. If you take him, don't forget to do mastering assignments, since he won't remind you about them.
Good
Professor Cook's class is mostly oral participation. I like him better in the context of this class than 1314. There are five short questions each week and a few essays that were not difficult. Overall, I absolutely recommend this class because it was so fun and it was nice to meet him out of the class.
Awful
Professor Cook's class was absolutely terrible. The only thing I can compare to is hell. His tests were all math and half of it is what you never learn in class. The laboratories were easy though. However, the homework and exams were very difficult for an introductory course. I guess he takes pleasure in failing most of his students. I wouldn't take his class again.
Awful
Professor Cook cares. However, he doesn't care enough about you to succeed. He says do your best and makes the tests impossible. How can a professor feel good when most students do not reach more than forty points on exams?
Oklahoma State University - Chemistry
Ph.D.
MS
Doctoral Research (Advisor: John M. Tomich
KSU)\n\nStructure determination and channel activity studies of peptides derived from the M2 domain of the human glycine receptor\n\n• Solid-phase synthesis of hydrophobic peptides using f-moc chemistry\n• Purification by reverse-phase HPLC and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry\n• Secondary structure determination by circular dichroism\n• Multi-dimensional proton solution NMR\n• Computer modeling of protein structures using NMR constraints\n• Channel conductance measurements by Ussing chamber experiments in MDCK cell monolayers
Biochemistry
B.S.
Biology
Chemistry
Structural Biology
Protein Expression
Cell
NMR
Mass Spectrometry
Purification
Circular Dichroism
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Peptides
Protein Purification
PCR
Biophysics
Mutagenesis
Site-directed Mutagenesis
Protein Engineering
Biochemistry
Cell Culture
Protein Chemistry
FPLC
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Secondary structure
dynamics
and architecture of the p7 membrane protein from hepatitis C virus by nmr spectroscopy
Stanley J. Opella
Secondary structure
dynamics
and architecture of the p7 membrane protein from hepatitis C virus by nmr spectroscopy
Stanley Opella
Ye Tian
Three-Dimensional Structure and Interaction Studies of Hepatitis C Virus p7 in 1
2-Dihexanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine by Solution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Stanley J. Opella
NMR studies of membrane proteins
Stanley J. Opella
Susanne Stefer
Expression and purification of the membrane protein p7 from hepatitis C virus
Stanley J. Opella
Yan Wang
Sang Ho Park
Hua Zhang
Comparative NMR studies demonstrate profound differences between two viroporins: p7 of HCV and Vpu of HIV-1
Stanley J. Opella
NMR studies of p7 protein from hepatitis C virus
George Gokel
John M. Tomich
Om Prakash
Paul E. Smith
Mahalaxmi Aburi
Robert Pajewski
NMR structure and dynamic studies of an anion-binding
channel-forming heptapeptide
John M. Tomich
Bruce D. Schultz
Takeo Iwamoto
Yu-Xi Gong
Ashley Robbins
Wade A. Takeguchi
Lalida P. Shank
Ke Zhang
Om Prakash
Activity and structural comparisons of solution associating and monomeric channel-forming peptides derived from the glycine receptor m2 segment
Cook
Oklahoma State University
UC San Diego
La Jolla
CA
Structure determination and interaction studies of membrane proteins by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)\n\n• Expression of isotopically labeled membrane proteins in E. coli\n• Purification by affinity chromatography
size-exclusion FPLC and reverse-phase HPLC\n• 1H
15N and 13C solid-state MAS NMR of membrane proteins in bilayers\n• Computer modeling of protein structures using NMR constraints\n• Drug binding studies using structure activity relationship studies (SAR) by NMR\n• Protein-protein interaction studies using NMR
Assistant Project Scientist
UC San Diego
Stillwater
OK
Structural and functional determination of membrane proteins related to disease\n\n• Solution and solid-state NMR methodology\n• Drug binding studies for the development of therapeutics\n• Characterization of protein-protein interactions
Assistant Professor
Oklahoma State University
Postdoctoral Research (Advisor: Stanley J. Opella
UCSD)\n\nStructure determination and drug binding studies of hepatitis C virus membrane protein p7 by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)\n\n• Expression of isotopically labeled membrane proteins in E. coli\n• Purification by affinity chromatography
size-exclusion FPLC and reverse-phase HPLC\n• 1H
15N and 13C solution NMR of membrane proteins in micelles and bicelles\n• 1H
15N
13C and 31P solid-state NMR of membrane proteins in bilayers\n• Computer modeling of protein structures using NMR constraints\n• Drug binding studies using structure activity relationship studies (SAR) by NMR
UC San Diego
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