Chemická kavárna nejen pro učitele chemie

The lecture will introduce high school colleagues to the field of knowledge at the intersection of chemistry, physics and biology. Speaker
will begin by describing the repertoire of structural motifs encountered in proteins and summarise the principles that determine the structure and behaviour of protein molecules. The main part of the talk will introduce methods that have provided us with information about protein structures (X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance, computational methods). Short demonstrations will be included presenting the principles of each method. The intention of the lecture is to introduce the audience to the field of chemistry, which has undergone a tumultuous development in recent years and in which the high school teacher often cannot rely on what he himself has heard as a student. But the main goal is to motivate secondary school teachers and students to make connections knowledge of physics, chemistry and biology, the connection of which may not be obvious from textbooks, but in practice is the basis of understanding of natural phenomena.