Day 11- Dr. Ozkan

Today's lecture got into the specific details of why protein folding is such an important field of study. Protein folding is an important concept because if we can figure out how and why proteins fold the way that they do, then we can figure out why they misfold and what can be done to correct misfoldings of proteins. After this is done, we can better develop drugs to overcome this protein misfolding that results in diseases such as alzheimer's disease. After this, in order to help with compiling ideas for our projects, we discussed some mathematical applications such as calculating the angles between atoms on the protein chains. This is a bit higher of a mathematical concept than my course addresses, but it did get the ideas flowing for some possible projects involving angles, polyhedrons, and 3-dimensional shapes that mimic formation of proteins. I have some ideas regarding transformations of atoms to form amino acid chains, and the resulting proteins as an applicable geometry project.