Equipment for a Modern Undergraduate Molecular Genetics Laboratory

本系正利用本奖项采购现代核酸研究教学所需的设备，为学生提供探索重组DNA技术和蛋白质分析等现代研究技术的机会。DNA电泳和蛋白质凝胶电泳装置以及重组DNA工作所需的辅助设备，如微型离心机、微移液器、紫外透光器、高速真空、真空烘箱、摇床培养箱、超声波仪和冷柜，正在被学生们在一门新课程“分子遗传学”中使用。以及两门已经确立的核心课程。学生将学习蛋白质化学、DNA结构、RNA表达以及重组DNA技术中使用的其他协议。在五年的时间里，大约250名本科生平均每人将参与三到四门课程，他们将对该设备有广泛的实践经验。该项目是该大学为学生提供快速发展的基因工程和重组DNA技术课程所采取的积极措施之一。1987年聘用的一位在这些领域具有专业知识的生物学教员正在设计新的分子遗传学课程。受资助机构将从非联邦来源获得等额的NSF奖励。

This department is using the present award to procure the equipment needed for teaching of modern nucleic acid research, providing students an opportunity to explore such modern research techniques as recombinant DNA technology and protein analysis. DNA electrophoresis and protein gel electrophoresis units along with such supportive equipment needed in work with recombinant DNA as a micro- centrifuge, micropipetters, a UV transilluminator, speed vac, vacuum oven, shaker incubator, sonicator, and cold cabinet are being used by students in a new course, Molecular Genetics, as well as in two already established core courses. Students learn protein chemistry, DNA structure, RNA expression, and other protocols used in recombinant DNA technology. In a five-year period about 250 undergraduates involved in an average of three to four courses per student will have extensive hands-on experience with this equipment. This project is one result of the university's positive steps toward providing its students with classes in the rapidly expanding field of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology. A biology faculty member with expertise in these fields, hired in 1987, is designing the new Molecular Genetics course. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.