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

这个本科教师增强（UFE）项目提供了未来两年的每一个：一个激烈的14天的实验室短期课程，分子遗传学进化生物学，在夏天;为期4天的后续会议下一个夏天;和持续的技术和材料支持。该格式是从以前的国家肖托夸和UFE课程演变而来的。每年从由社区学院、4年制文理学院和大学、综合大学和研究型大学的教师组成的国家申请人库中选出22名教师。 四名职前教师从SFSU中选出。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，以培养PCR扩增，限制性内切酶分析和各种凝胶分离技术的技能。 参与者调查“专题”研究项目的研究小组组成的混合职前教师，导师教师和教师从社区学院和四年制院校。 研讨会的主题包括使用分子技术来调查原核生物，脊椎动物，无脊椎动物和植物系统，这些技术纳入本科实验室，和有效的教学实践的例子。 作为最后的练习，每个副教授和教师创建教学模块，将新的实验室和教学技术在研讨会上开发。课程结束后，SFSU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。在以前的课程中编写的教学材料以及新的UFE参与者编写的材料正在SFSU/UFE网站上发布。

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.