Enhancing Bioenergetics Curricula with Inquiry-Based Laboratories

生物科学（61）本项目的目标是提高本科生物专业学生对生物体如何从环境中捕获和利用能量的知识。 该部门最近扩大了生理学课程，现在包括比较动物生理学，植物生理学，人体解剖学和生理学，高级动物生理学，生理植物生态学和动物生理生态学。由于生物能量学是生物体与其环境之间的关键联系，该项目结合了现代仪器和基于探究的生理学课程，使学生接触现代技术，并使他们能够解决与适应，全球变化，生态关系，生物化学循环和代谢多样性有关的问题。 在植物生理学中，一个测量光化学量子产率的实验室（波莫纳学院的大卫贝克尔博士）正在被改造，以证明豆类叶片的光反应和估计电子传递速率。 Carl Pike博士（富兰克林和马歇尔学院，另见Marietta学院Steve Spilatro博士，（http：//www.marietta.edu/spilatrs/biol103/photolab/index.html））设计用于教授东部落叶树的光合适应和驯化的实验室正在进行调整，以研究不同入射光水平下的氧气释放。 其他正在适应机构需求的实验室最初是由Robert Hodson博士（特拉华州大学）和Diane Robertson博士（http：//web.grinnell.edu/courses/bio/qubitmanual）设计的。在《生理植物生态学》中，材料改编自植物生理生态学中的几个国家已知的程序，包括来自Rick博伊斯博士（丹佛大学，http：//du.edu/cubrboyce/ppe.html）、Peter Curtis博士（俄亥俄州州立大学，http：//www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/cubrcurtis/courses/674%syl）和Bob Pearcy博士（加州戴维斯大学）的材料。在比较动物生理学、动物生理生态学和高级动物生理学实验室中，使用气体交换测量来探索环境温度和内/外温对代谢率的影响。 这些实验室的模型包括William Mautz博士（毛伊岛夏威夷大学）、James卡尔博士（德克萨斯理工大学）和Robert Hodson博士（特拉华州大学）设计的实验。 高年级生物学专业的学生也使用新的仪器在顶点课程，要求每个学生设计，实施，并提出书面和口头形式的独立研究项目。

Biological Sciences (61) The goal of this project is to enhance undergraduate biology majors' knowledge of how organisms capture and utilize energy from the environment. The department has recently expanded its physiology course offerings, which now include Comparative Animal Physiology, Plant Physiology, Human Anatomy and Physiology, Advanced Animal Physiology, Physiological Plant Ecology and Physiological Ecology of Animals. Since bioenergetics is a key linkage between organisms and their environment, the project combines modern instrumentation and inquiry-based physiology curricula to expose students to modern techniques and allow them to address questions relating to adaptations, global change, ecological relationships, biogeochemical cycles, and metabolic diversity. In Plant Physiology, a laboratory to measure photochemical quantum yield (Dr. David Becker, Pomona College) is being adapted to prove the light reactions of bean leaves and to estimate electron transport rates. Laboratories from Dr. Carl Pike (Franklin and Marshall College, see also Dr. Steve Spilatro, Marietta College, (http://www.marietta.edu/~spilatrs/biol103/photolab/index.html) designed to teach photosynthetic adaptation and acclimation of eastern deciduous trees are being adapted to study oxygen evolution with varying incident light levels. Other laboratories that are being adapted to the institutional needs were originally designed by Dr. Robert Hodson (University of Delaware) and Dr Diane Robertson (http://web.grinnell.edu/courses/bio/qubitmanual). In Physiological Plant Ecology materials are being adapted from several nationally known programs in plant physiological ecology, including materials from Dr. Rick Boyce (University of Denver, http://du.edu/~rboyce/ppe.html), Dr. Peter Curtis (Ohio State University, http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~pcurtis/courses/674%syl), and Dr. Bob Pearcy (University of California, Davis). In Comparative Animal Physiology, Physiological Ecology of Animals, and Advanced Animal Physiology laboratories that use gas exchange measurements to explore effects of ambient temperature and endo/ectothermy on metabolic rate are being adapted. Models for these laboratories include experiments designed by Dr. William Mautz (University of Hawaii, Maui), Dr. James Carr (Texas Tech University), and Dr. Robert Hodson (University of Delaware). Senior biology majors also use the new instrumentation in a capstone course that requires each student to design, implement, and present an independent research project in both written and oral form.