Enhancement of a Molecular Biology/Bioinformatics Program

生物科学今天的生物学家需要强大的计算机应用程序来处理分子信息堆积如山的问题。为了让生物学专业的学生做好迎接这一挑战的准备，威斯康星大学帕克赛德分校(UWP)生物科学系正在进一步开发分子生物学与生物信息学(MBB)的多学科创新本科课程。MBB项目的目标是让我们的学生掌握分子生物学实验室技术，掌握MBB背后的数学和物理概念并应用它们，以及熟练使用计算工具和生物信息学技能。这一努力是对以贝洛伊特学院为中心的BioQuest小组首创的基于问题的学习的适应。为了完成这些任务，我们正在通过师资建设、重新设计我们的课程以及改善我们系的基础设施来扩大和改进我们系的专业知识。为了使我们的计划保持领先地位，我们正在获得开发我们计划所必需的新设备和软件。我们还在扩大我们在生物信息学领域的师资培养计划。

Biological Sciences (61) Today's biologists need powerful computer applications to tackle the molecular haystacks of information. To prepare biology students for this challenge, the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Wisconsin- Parkside (UWP) is further developing an innovative, multidisciplinary undergraduate curriculum in Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics (MBB). The objective of the MBB program is to give our students hands-on facility with molecular biology laboratory techniques, a grasp of mathematical and physical concepts underlying MBB and the ability to apply them, and a proficiency with computational tools and skills of bioinformatics. The effort is an adaptation of problem-based learning pioneered by the BioQuest group centered at Beloit College. To accomplish these tasks, we are expanding and improving our department's expertise through faculty development, redesigning our curriculum, and improving the infrastructure of the department. New equipment and software essential for the development of our program is being acquired to keep our program at the cutting edge. We are also expanding our faculty development program in the area of bioinformatics.