Advanced Microscopy for an Undergraduate Cell Biology Course

该大学正在开发一门本科细胞生物学课程，该课程有望成为一门相关且令人兴奋的课程，以鼓励学生继续学习并从事生物科学职业，并为他们提供这样做的技能。 通过这个项目，该大学正在开发先进的显微镜实验室，利用细胞生物学研究中许多最好和最令人兴奋的技术。 显微镜技术的最新进展为研究人员提供了细胞生物学的新视角，现在有各种各样的荧光探针可用于研究活细胞或固定细胞的细胞结构和功能。 这些技术和仪器被带到本科教学实验室，在细胞生物学的二年级核心课程。 正在开发使用配备对比增强光学器件和成像处理系统的荧光显微镜的实验室练习;学生在实验中使用该设备来检查细胞生物学中的当前模型和理论。 为了不受限制的观看，显微镜有一个彩色视频投影系统，让学生投影他们的细胞准备班的其余检查和讨论。 通过视频投影和录制系统，鼓励互动和协作学习。 个人和小组工作，同伴教学和实验项目，所有这些都是非常有效的教学技术，都提供。 学生进行自己设计的实验，并口头和书面报告他们的结果。

The university is developing an undergraduate cell biology course that promises to be a relevant and exciting course to encourage students to continue their studies and pursue careers in the biological sciences and to provide them with the skills to do so. Through this project, the university is developing advanced microscopy laboratories that utilize many of the best and most exciting techniques in cell biology, research. Recent advances in microscopy have provided researchers with new views of cell biology, and a wide variety of fluorescent probes are now available to study cellular structure and function in living or fixed cells. These techniques and instrumentation are brought into the undergraduate teaching labs in a sophomore core course in cell biology. Laboratory exercises using fluorescence microscopes equipped with contrast enhancing optics and an imaging processing system are being developed; the students use this equipment in experiments to examine the current models and theories in cell biology. For unlimited viewing, the microscopes have a color video projection system to allow students to project their cell preparations to the rest of the class for examination and discussion. With the video projection and recording system, interactive and collaborative learning is encouraged. Individual and small group work, peer teaching, and experimental projects, all of which are very effective teaching techniques, are all provided. Students perform experiments of their own design and present their results orally and in written reports.