Instrumentation for a Newly Revised Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratory Course

长滩的加州州立大学化学系设计并实施了一学期生物化学实验室课程的新课程。该课程是一个新批准的学位课程的顶点，导致生物化学科学学士学位。该课程强调获得现代生物化学研究技术和仪器的经验，并获得在研究环境中使用的解决问题的技能。最近，该部门的仪器设备中增加了以下设备，专门用于这方面：一台高速离心机、三台紫外-可见扫描光度计、一台配有可变波长检测器的高压液相色谱梯度系统和三台低压液相色谱系统。除了蛋白质测定，酶动力学和凝胶电泳实验，血红蛋白，DNA，和信使RNA的分离和表征，从卤虫Salina，进行了与重组质粒的细菌转化和质粒的分离和表征的实验。

A new curriculum for a one-semester biochemistry laboratory course has been designed and is being implemented by the Chemistry Department at California State University at Long Beach. The course is the capstone of a newly approved degree program leading to a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry. The course emphasizes the acquisition of both experience with modern biochemical research techniques and instrumentation and the acquisition of problem-solving skills used in a research setting. The following equipment has been recently added to the department's instrumental holdings, specifically for use in this regard: a high speed centrifuge, three ultraviolet-visible scanning spectrophotometers, a high pressure liquid chromatography gradient system with variable wavelength detector, and three low pressure liquid chromatography systems. In addition to experiments on protein determination, enzyme kinetics, and gel electrophoresis, the isolation and characterization of hemoglobin, DNA, and messenger RNA, from the brine shrimp Artemia Salina, is carried out, together with experiments on the transformation of bacteria with recombinant plasmids and the isolation and characterization of the plasmids.