Establishment of a Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

在威斯康星大学拉克罗斯分校建立细胞生物学和分子遗传学实验室

• 批准号: 9851544
• 负责人: Scott Cooper
• 金额: $ 4.79万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-07-01 至 2000-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851544&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Establishment; Cell; Biology; Molecular; Genetics

The current trend towards a more mechanistic or molecular understanding of living systems has unified many diverse fields of biology. Because of this, all biology majors now need to be aware of advances that previously were only taught in advanced genetics and molecular biology courses. In response to this need, the Department of Biology and Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is incorporating new exercises into the laboratories of to two required courses, Genetics and Cell Biology. In addition we have created a new track for biology majors in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Finally, the department approved the remodeling of a herbarium into a modern Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory for undergraduate instruction. The equipment supplied by this award is being used in the courses taught in the Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory. These include the laboratory sections of Genetics and Cell Biology as well as two electives, Molecular Biology and Plant Growth and Development. The improvements in these courses are giving all biology majors experience in many of the most current technologies used in research and industry today. These include cloning, tissue culture, molecular diagnostics, and the expression of recombinant proteins. In addition, students are now able to perform experiments on topics that were previously only covered in lecture, such as developmental biology, cellular differentiation and RFLP analysis. The equipment is dramatically reforming core courses which serve over 400 students a year.

目前的趋势是对生命系统进行更加机械的或分子的理解，这已经统一了生物学的许多不同领域。正因为如此，所有的生物学专业现在都需要了解以前只在高级遗传学和分子生物学课程中教授的进展。为了满足这一需求，威斯康星大学拉克罗斯分校的生物学和微生物学系正在将新的练习纳入两门必修课程遗传学和细胞生物学的实验室。此外，我们还为细胞和分子生物学的生物学专业创建了一个新的轨道。最后，该系批准将一个植物标本馆改建为一个现代化的细胞生物学和分子遗传学实验室，用于本科教学。该奖项提供的设备正在细胞生物学和分子遗传学实验室教授的课程中使用。这些包括遗传学和细胞生物学的实验室部分，以及两个选修课，分子生物学和植物生长与发育。这些课程的改进使所有生物学专业的学生都能体验到当今研究和工业中使用的许多最新技术。这些包括克隆、组织培养、分子诊断和重组蛋白的表达。此外，学生现在能够对以前只在讲座中涉及的主题进行实验，如发育生物学，细胞分化和RFLP分析。这些设备正在极大地改变每年为400多名学生提供服务的核心课程。