Molecular Genetic Analysis Applied to Evolution, Ecology, and Systemic Biology: An Extended Laboratory Course

这个本科师资增强（UFE）项目在接下来的两年里每年提供：在夏季，一个紧张的为期14天的实验室短期课程，分子遗传学和进化生物学；次年夏季为期4天的后续会议；以及持续的技术和物质支持。这种形式是从以前的国家肖托夸和UFE课程演变而来的。每年从来自社区学院、四年制文理学院和大学、综合性大学和研究型大学的教师组成的全国申请人才库中选出22名教师。从上海外国语大学选拔出4名职前教师。参与者通过讲座和演示学习分子生物学的基础知识，并进行一系列实验来培养PCR扩增，限制性内切酶分析和各种凝胶分离技术的技能。参与者以六人一组的研究小组调查“主题”研究项目，研究小组由一名职前教师、一名导师教师和来自社区大学和四年制大学的教员组成。研讨会主题包括使用分子技术来研究原核动物、脊椎动物、无脊椎动物和植物系统，将这些技术纳入本科实验室，以及有效教学实践的例子。作为最后的练习，每个职前教师和教职员工创建教学模块，将在研讨会期间开发的新的实验室和教学技术结合起来。课程结束后，旧金山州立大学的教师可以通过电话和电子邮件帮助参与者将分子技术和分析纳入他们的研究项目和本科课程。以前课程开发的教学材料以及新参与者开发的材料将放在SFSU/UFE网站上。

This Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement (UFE) project provides for each of the next two years: an intense fourteen-day laboratory short course, Molecular Genetics & Evolutionary Biology, in the summer; a 4-day follow-up session the following summer; and on-going technical and material support. The format evolved from prior national Chautauqua and UFE courses. Twenty-two faculty are selected each year from a national applicant pool comprised of faculty from community colleges, 4-year liberal arts colleges and universities, comprehensive universities, and research universities. Four pre-service teachers are selected from SFSU. Participants learn the fundamentals of molecular biology through lectures and demonstrations, and conduct a series of experiments to develop skill in PCR amplification, restriction enzyme analysis, and various gel separation techniques. Participants investigate "thematic" research projects in research groups of six composed of a mix of a pre-service teacher, a mentor teacher and faculty from community colleges and four-year institutions. Seminar topics include the use of molecular techniques to investigate procaryote, vertebrate, invertebrate, and plant systems, the incorporation of these techniques into the undergraduate laboratory, and examples of effective teaching practices. As a final exercise, each of the preservice teachers and faculty create teaching modules incorporating the new laboratory and teaching techniques developed during the workshop. Following the course the SFSU faculty is available via telephone and email to help participants incorporate molecular techniques and analysis into their research projects and their undergraduate courses. The instructional materials developed in prior courses as well as materials developed by new UFE participants are being placed on an SFSU/UFE web site.