Wikipedia:School and university projects/Biomembranes at UF

The University of Florida's CHM 6304 (Special topics: Biomembranes) is working on bringing several articles in this subject to GA-level during the Spring 2009 semester. Students will be assessed by the instructor, Gfanucci (talk · contribs) (faculty page here), and the project will be assisted by Wikipedian Moni3 (talk · contribs).

This page will grow as students make progress.

Goals

Students will register as Wikipedia users and notify Dr. Fanucci of their user names by email. Student's will also post onto Dr. Fanucci's Gfanucci (talk · contribs) talk page their user name and page to be modified.
Once registered, students will choose an article within their scope to bring to GA-level.
Students will add cited material from reliable sources to their chosen articles, and keep in mind comprehensiveness and readability.
Students will add at least one public domain image, either downloaded or created for the article, with the proper tags.
Students will notify Dr. Fanucci when they feel their articles are at GA level. Each student's grade will be assessed with the Good article criteria. Each student is urged to nominate their articles for GA after the class has been completed.

News

The following articles are ready for a review to make sure they are ready for GA criteria:

Hydrophobicity scales nominated for GA on April 27.
Ethanol induced non-lamellar phases in phospholipids is ready for assessment

Articles and members, Spring 2009

Idevera - created section 1 (April 20, 2009) in Lipid signaling page (start class on April 9, 2009) and named this section, "Sphingolipid second messengers." Finished uploading image Sphingolipid second messengers4.png on April 21, 2009. Renamed section 2 as "Second messengers from phosphatidylinositol" (Kyle's section).
MBChandl - will either create Cubic phase (lipids) or expanding a sub-section on each phase in Lipid polymorphism (Cubic phase (lipids) does not exist on April 9, 2009; Lipid polymorphism is stub class on the same day)
William-the-chemist - Cell penetrating peptides (listed stub class, but closer to C class on April 9, 2009)
Bogdan - Cell penetrating peptides (contrast agents,new substrates)
The hope - Hydrophobicity scales (does not exist on April 9, 2009)
LFred3 - Platelet activating factor (start class on April 9, 2009)
Rochellehx - Cardiolipin (stub/start class on April 13, 2009)
lupeng - Cell penetrating peptides (nucleic acids and proteins)
Akuznetsova - Theories of general anaesthetic action (class of article is not listed)
Herbert - Cerebrosides (stub class on April 22, 2009)
Zz6 - Endocytosis (start-class on April 22, 2009)
Wlstutts - Lipid raft (B-class on April 22,2009)
Dream22 - Ethanol Induced Non-Lamellar Phases in Phospholipids (started on April 22, 2009)
Star.gonzales - ATP-binding cassette transporter (start-class on April 22,2009)
Ymahn - created antimicrobial peptides->protegrin page and updated sections, structure, Antimicrobial Activities, Determination of AMP action and Bacterial Resistance in antimicrobial peptides.

Anti-microbial peptides (does not exist April 22, 2009)

Tao19911030 - Lipid raft COMMENT FROM Gfanucci, Wlstutts and Tao19911030 have chosen the same page, you need to email me and tell me what you are individually doing.
jieyangcheer - Antimicrobial peptides COMMENT FROM Gfanucci, Ymahn and jieyangcheerhave chosen the same page, you need to email me and tell me what you are individually doing.
Lunska - update history on Lipid signaling page. Idevera has already updated scientific content on this page.
Yuriaap about membrane curvature.
eraserymx - Hydrophobic mismatch (does not exist on April 22, 2009)
liz6304 is going to create a new page about Mechanosensitive channels
cathleenshao is going to modify lipid bilayer fusion, adding assays for measuring membrane fusion (B class on April 22, 2009)
Haoliulh is going to make Membrane receptor (does not exist previously)
Laozhengzz will also modify Membrane receptor.

Helpers

User:TimVickers - helpful Wikipedian, willing to answer questions, particularly on enzymes or microbiology

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You can suggest a "hook", or a sentence that mentions an interesting fact in your article. The hook should be no more than 200 characters long. Suggestions can be placed here. Read through a few to get an idea of what to suggest.

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