BIOL 5200
Glycobiology and Human Disease · 1 instructor on record · 2 sections
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Satisfies the advanced experience requirement for the Biology major. In this seminar course we will discuss the structures, function, and metabolism (biosynthesis and degradation) of carbohydrate-containing molecules, which are widely distributed in nature. Glycosylation is a major type of posttranslational modification of proteins and lipids, and as a result of such modification these molecules (glycoconjugates) obtained new physical, chemical and biological properties that frequently determine very specific processes in the cells and whole living organisms. Glycoconjugates have important roles in intercellular interactions and adhesion, signaling, the immune response, fertilization, embryogenesis, the action of hormones and receptors, etc. Disorders (often hereditary) in degradation and biosynthesis of glycoconjugates lead to development of very severe diseases, a variety of lysosomal storage diseases (LSD) and congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG), respectively. For the past two decades, new fields of study termed glycomedicine and glycopharmacology have been developing rapidly.
| Instructor | Overall | Workload | Challenge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gherman WiederschainBiology Provisional | 862 records | 2nd | 30th |
There is no ranking to read here: Gherman Wiederschain is the only instructor with evaluation records for BIOL 5200, so the number is a record, not a position. It rests on 2 records, which is thin — read it as provisional.
Other BIOL classes
All of them| Class | Instructors | Course score |
|---|---|---|
| BIOL 2040Investigations in Molecular Cell Biology Lab | 2176 records | 87 |
| BIOL 1310Anatomy and Physiology Lab 1 | 443 records | 78 |
| BIOL 1330Anatomy and Physiology Lab 2 | 443 records | 76 |
| BIOL 2210Microbiology for Health Professionals Laboratory | 341 records | 84 |
| BIOL 4260Human Anatomy with Lab | 135 records | 86 |
| BIOL 4330Human Physiology | 128 records | 85 |
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All 13 items · means across 2 recordsBar length is the rank against every comparable record we hold, not the raw score: BC's questions all have a median around 4.5, so a raw-scale bar would be nearly full on every row and would tell you nothing. Every bar is one ink colour — nothing here is graded green or red. The hatched bars are not ratings at all: a higher number on either describes a different course, not a better one.
Game log
2 sections · newest first| Instructor | Term | Sec | Instr | Course | Work |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gherman Wiederschain | Fall 2025 | 01 | 100 | 94 | 40 |
| Gherman Wiederschain | Fall 2024 | 01 | 73 | 60 | 20 |
How to read this boardInstructors are ranked on their record in this class only, never on their average across everything they teach. Scores are out of 100 — Boston College's 1–5 agreement scale, ×20, the way these numbers were printed for years. Workload is BC's own five-band figure, not a number of hours, and is shown as a rank. A dash means the question was not reported, and is never a zero.