{"id":268,"date":"2010-09-15T18:05:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T18:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/?page_id=268"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:22:52","slug":"teaching","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/?page_id=268","title":{"rendered":"Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>\nbody.page-id-268 #content{padding-top:.5rem}\nbody.page-id-268 #post-268{margin-top:0}\nbody.page-id-268 #post-268>.entry{padding-top:.25rem}\n.cp-teaching-map{box-sizing:border-box;display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(4,minmax(0,1fr));gap:.4rem;width:min(660px,calc(100% - 1.5rem));margin:0 auto .75rem}\n.cp-teaching-map>br{display:none!important}\n.cp-teaching-map a{box-sizing:border-box;display:flex;min-width:0;min-height:70px;flex-direction:column;justify-content:center;gap:.32rem;padding:.42rem .5rem .48rem;border:1px solid #cfe0e4;border-radius:11px;background:#fff;color:#2b2626;text-decoration:none;box-shadow:0 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class=\"cp-teaching-map-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><circle cx=\"24\" cy=\"24\" r=\"18\"\/><circle cx=\"24\" cy=\"24\" r=\"4\"\/><path d=\"M24 6v8M24 34v8M6 24h8M34 24h8M11 11l6 6M31 31l6 6M37 11l-6 6M17 31l-6 6\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"cp-teaching-map-label\">Overview<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"#cp-teaching-song-section-title\"><span class=\"cp-teaching-map-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M18 35a6 6 0 1 1-6-6h6V11l20-4v22\"\/><path d=\"M38 29a6 6 0 1 1-6-6h6M18 17l20-4\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"cp-teaching-map-label\">Metabolic Interlude<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"#cp-teaching-approach-title\"><span class=\"cp-teaching-map-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M15 22a9 9 0 1 1 18 0c0 5-4 6-5 11h-8c-1-5-5-6-5-11z\"\/><path d=\"M20 37h8m-7 4h6M24 4v5M8 22h5m22 0h5M12 10l4 4m20-4l-4 4\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"cp-teaching-map-label\">Teaching Approach<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n    <a href=\"#cp-teaching-classroom-title\"><span class=\"cp-teaching-map-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><rect x=\"6\" y=\"7\" width=\"36\" height=\"25\" rx=\"2\"\/><path d=\"M15 41h18M24 32v9M12 14h24M13 27l6-6 5 4 8-8\"\/><circle cx=\"35\" cy=\"17\" r=\"2\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"cp-teaching-map-label\">In the Classroom<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/nav>\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-subsection\" aria-labelledby=\"cp-teaching-overview-title\">\n<h2 id=\"cp-teaching-overview-title\" class=\"cp-unified-section-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">Teaching Overview<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"cp-teaching-video\">\n    <video controls loop muted playsinline autoplay preload=\"metadata\" data-accessible-autoplay aria-describedby=\"cp-teaching-video-caption\"><source src=\"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/teaching-neoscholar-excerpt-21-34-silent-slow.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support embedded video. <a href=\"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/teaching-neoscholar-excerpt-21-34-silent-slow.mp4\">Download the silent teaching video<\/a>.<\/video><figcaption id=\"cp-teaching-video-caption\">Teaching through active discussion and student engagement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"cp-teaching-intro\">Dr. Salomon teaches biochemistry across Brown\u2019s undergraduate, graduate, and medical programs. His goal is to help students connect molecular mechanisms with experimental evidence, human disease, and clear scientific reasoning.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-subsection cp-teaching-song-section\" aria-labelledby=\"cp-teaching-song-section-title\">\n<h2 id=\"cp-teaching-song-section-title\" class=\"cp-unified-section-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">A Metabolic Interlude<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cp-car-song cp-teaching-song cp-krebs-video-card\" role=\"group\" aria-labelledby=\"cp-krebs-wheel-title\">\n<div class=\"cp-car-song-intro\">\n      <span class=\"cp-car-song-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&#9835;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 id=\"cp-krebs-wheel-title\">Krebs Wheel<\/h3>\n<p>Because even metabolism deserves a chorus after going around in circles.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    <video class=\"cp-krebs-video\" controls playsinline preload=\"metadata\" poster=\"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/krebs-wheel-v10-poster.jpg\" aria-describedby=\"cp-krebs-video-caption cp-krebs-video-description\"><source src=\"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/krebs-wheel-music-video-v20.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video player. <a href=\"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/krebs-wheel-music-video-v20.mp4\">Download the Krebs Wheel music video<\/a>.<\/video><\/p>\n<p id=\"cp-krebs-video-caption\" class=\"cp-krebs-video-caption\">The Krebs cycle goes round and round while its energy products pop out to the music.<\/p>\n<details id=\"cp-krebs-video-description\" class=\"cp-krebs-video-description\">\n<summary>Text description of the animation<\/summary>\n<p>The video follows the lyrics through animated metabolic scenes synchronized to measured drum and percussion onsets. The opening title includes the Brown University logo with Prof. Salomon and BIOL0280, plus credits reading \u201cWith help from Suno for music\u201d and \u201cCodex for animation.\u201d In the mitochondrial-entry scene, pyruvate crosses a visible opening in the porous outer membrane, then passes behind the cyan mitochondrial pyruvate carrier in the continuous, selective inner membrane. The \u201cMITOCHONDRIAL MATRIX\u201d label and dancing matrix resident remain inside the inner membrane, and pyruvate shrinks as it enters so the resident stays visible. The PDH gatekeeper clears immediately after a double drum hit, and TPP, lipoate, FAD, NAD+, and CoA each bounce and brighten when sung. Carbon dioxide leaves as a stream of rising bubbles that disappears when its phrase ends, an electron beam transfers reducing power, and NADH gains a gold corona and reaction rings that pulse on the analyzed musical beats. In every circular TCA diagram, the tracer and gold pathway highlight use the analyzed musical beats with a slight perceptual visual lead. Four helpers consistently identify the cycle\u2019s carbon dioxide, FADH2, ATP, and NADH products; the numeral in carbon dioxide and FADH2 is drawn separately as a subscript to avoid font-display errors. A cellular lunch special of GTP, FADH2, and NADH appears in the center of the cycle on a dark panel, flanked by a roast-turkey drumstick and colorful vegetables. A translucent spotlight radiates from the center of the cycle toward the named enzyme, reaction, or metabolite. Word-level timing aligns succinate, fumarate, malate, and oxaloacetate with their sung names. During \u201cnot like fire, not all at once,\u201d an overenthusiastic helper uses a flamethrower to scorch a marshmallow, labeled as the opposite of controlled oxidation. Other visual jokes include a brief exploding GTP spark, a furnace, and a failed all-at-once plan that lingers before the helper returns. In the redox-dark scene, GTP, NADH, and FADH2 helpers match the named products; the GTP helper bursts and disappears in the same interval as the GTP token while NADH and FADH2 remain. A refill thermometer begins overflowing at its established time, then builds into a full burst as four gold oxaloacetate carbon dots appear; a flower blooms in the upper-right; three pyruvate carbons grab one carbon dioxide carbon to form four-carbon oxaloacetate in a linear chain; and a pointed, veined leaf accompanies the animated fat droplet and glyoxylate shortcut. The Metabolic Express crosses a dark star field. In the electron-transport scene, a carrier crest advances exactly one complex per measured beat while electron packets flow on the same beat phase. ATP keeps its timed bounce but does not receive the traveling carrier highlight. The electron packets terminate at oxygen, and a reaction panel shows O2 forming H2O with manually drawn subscripts. At both sung occurrences of \u201cATP for you,\u201d an original poster-style Uncle Sam points toward an ATP token that zooms outward over a darkened background. In the final scene, the ATP graphic dissolves into smoke.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<p class=\"cp-car-song-credit\">Music created with Suno. Video created with Codex.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-subsection\" aria-labelledby=\"cp-teaching-approach-title\">\n<h2 id=\"cp-teaching-approach-title\" class=\"cp-unified-section-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">Teaching Approach<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cp-teaching-grid\">\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-card\">\n      <span class=\"cp-teaching-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M8 7c11 6 11 28 0 34M18 7C7 13 7 35 18 41M10 12h6M8 20h10M8 28h10M10 36h6\"\/><path d=\"M22 24h7m-3-4l4 4-4 4\"\/><path d=\"M34 15a10 10 0 1 1-1 17\"\/><path d=\"M34 15v6h6M33 32v-6h-6\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Biochemical foundations<\/h3>\n<p>BIOL 0280 examines macromolecular structure and function, information flow from genes to proteins, intermediary metabolism, and hormonal control of metabolic flux.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-card\">\n      <span class=\"cp-teaching-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M8 39h32M11 35V23m8 12V15m8 20V27m8 8V10\"\/><circle cx=\"36\" cy=\"10\" r=\"4\"\/><path d=\"M14 18l8-6 7 5\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Evidence to insight<\/h3>\n<p>BIOL 1270\/2270 and BIOL 2030 use primary literature, data analysis, discussion, and presentations to strengthen critical thinking and scientific communication.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-card\">\n      <span class=\"cp-teaching-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M8 9h13c3 0 5 2 5 5v26c0-3-2-5-5-5H8z\"\/><path d=\"M40 9H29c-2 0-3 2-3 5v26c0-3 2-5 5-5h9z\"\/><path d=\"M33 18v10m-5-5h10\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Biochemistry in medicine<\/h3>\n<p>BIOL 3642\/IMS-I links biochemical mechanisms to human disease and clinical relevance for medical students.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-card\">\n      <span class=\"cp-teaching-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 48 48\" focusable=\"false\"><path d=\"M15 22a9 9 0 1 1 18 0c0 5-4 6-5 11h-8c-1-5-5-6-5-11z\"\/><path d=\"M20 37h8m-7 4h6M24 4v5M8 22h5m22 0h5M12 10l4 4m20-4l-4 4\"\/><circle cx=\"38\" cy=\"36\" r=\"3\"\/><path d=\"M28 36h7\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Active learning by design<\/h3>\n<p>Lecture capture, short concept videos, online discussion, rapid electronic feedback, and in-class response systems help students prepare, participate, and revisit challenging ideas.<\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"cp-teaching-subsection\" aria-labelledby=\"cp-teaching-classroom-title\">\n<h2 id=\"cp-teaching-classroom-title\" class=\"cp-unified-section-title\" tabindex=\"-1\">In the Classroom<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full cp-teaching-photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"734\" height=\"572\" src=\"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/teaching-classroom.png\" alt=\"Dr. Arthur Salomon teaching biochemistry to students in a Brown University classroom\" class=\"wp-image-984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/teaching-classroom.png 734w, https:\/\/cellpathway.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/teaching-classroom-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Metabolic Interlude Teaching Approach In the Classroom Teaching Overview Your browser does not support embedded video. 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