Equipment to Upgrade the Undergraduate Biology Curriculum, with Emphasis on Microbiology.

该项目的目的是让微生物学、医学技术学和医学预科学生在本科实验室有更多的实践经验，特别是使用制药、食品和医疗行业以及研究生院采用的现代设备。新的分光光度计在普通微生物学课程中用来构建细菌的生长曲线，在寄生虫学课程中用来进行酶动力学实验，在免疫学课程中用来进行蛋白质浓度测定。层流、倒置显微镜、二氧化碳孵化器和新型离心机正被用于免疫学课程，以管理骨髓瘤细胞。微型和水平电泳仪、透光仪、摇床和微离心机被用来构建细胞/分子生物学课程中的质粒物理图谱。BioStat发酵罐用于工业微生物学课程，用于各种工业微生物的连续培养。通过这个项目提供的设备，学生们正在学习使用电泳、DNA重组、酶动力学和ELISA技术，并掌握组织培养的原理和骨髓瘤细胞的重要性。

The aim of the project is to give Microbiology, Medical Technology, and Pre-Medical students more "hands on" experience in the undergraduate laboratories, particularly using the kinds of modern equipment adopted by the pharmaceutical, food and medical industries, and by graduate schools. The new spectrophotometers are being used in the General Microbiology course to construct growth curves of bacteria, in the Parasitology course to perform experiments on enzyme kinetics, and in Immunology to carry out protein concentration determinations. Laminar flows, the inverted microscope, the CO2 incubator and the new centrifuge are being used in Immunology courses to manage Myeloma cells. The miniature and horizontal electrophoresis systems, the transilluminator, shaking incubator and microcentrifuge are used to construct physical maps of plasmids in the Cellular/Molecular Biology course. The Biostat fermenter is used in the Industrial Microbiology course for the continuous culture of various microorganisms of industrial interest. With the equipment provided through this project, students are learning to use electrophoresis, DNA recombination, enzyme kinetics, and ELISA techniques, and are mastering principles of tissue culture and the importance of Myeloma cells.