Development of Undergraduate Biotechnology Laboratories

在一项合作努力中，内布拉斯加大学 奥马哈（UNO）和内布拉斯加大学医学中心（UNMC） 实施了一项创新的生物技术计划， 在分子生物学方面的最先进经验， 本科生。严格的实验室课程 包括生物技术实习，学生将参加一个 UNO或UNMC的分子生物学研究实验室之一 学期该计划的基石是两个新的 设计的讲座和实验室课程，病毒学和分子 遗传学，UNO。所要求的设备将使 增加对生物技术至关重要的新实验的计划 每个课程的程度。 主要设备项目 所获得的包括：一个地板模型，超级电容器和转子; 微型离心机;电泳电源， 用于测序的电泳装置;杂交 室;压力印迹系统;紫外线交联 仪器;电印迹系统;可调微量移液器 和盖革-穆勒辐射监测仪。这些补充将 大幅改善UNO的分子生物学课程 从而促进新的 生物技术学位课程。

In a cooperative effort, the University of Nebraska at Omaha(UNO) and the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) have implemented an innovative biotechnology program to provide state of the art experience in molecular biology to undergraduate students. A rigorous laboratory curriculum includes a Biotechnology internship where students will join a molecular biology research laboratory at UNO or UNMC for one semester. The cornerstones of this program are two newly designed lecture and laboratory courses, Virology and Molecular Genetics, at UNO. The requested equipment will enable the program to add new experiments critical to the Biotechnology degree to each of the courses. The major equipment items to be acquired include: a floor model ultracentrifuge and rotors; a microcentrifuge; an electrophoresis power supply, an electrophoresis apparatus for sequencing; a hybridization chamber; a pressure blotting system; a UV-crosslinking apparatus; an electroblotting system; adjustable micropipettes and a Geiger-Muller radiation monitor. These additions will substantially improve the molecular biology curriculum at UNO and thereby facilitate the full implementation of the new Biotechnology degree program.