Visualizing Cells and Embryos: Integrating Modern Cell and Developmental Biology Techniques into the Undergraduate Biology Curriculum

生物科学（61）.该项目正在改变细胞生物学和发育生物学的传统本科课程，为本科生提供使用现代生物学中一些最重要和最广泛适用的技术设计，执行，分析和报告这些领域原始实验问题的机会。通过将荧光显微镜，立体显微镜，数字成像，显微外科和显微注射的研究技术应用于新的，创新的，基于探究的本科实验室体验，它为学生提供了现代生物学过程的真实世界观，同时发展他们的技术，协作和沟通技能。在细胞和发育生物学的主题，如细胞形态，细胞器功能，细胞命运，组织发育和器官发生，基于调查的现代调查，刺激学生的智力增长，培养他们的工作的所有权，鼓励主动性，并帮助他们准备在我们日益技术化的社会中成为有效的公民，教师和科学家。通过增加机会，让学生参与科学的过程中更早地在他们的本科经验，该项目正在增加招聘，保留，并在科学的学生在一个机构具有高度多样化的学生人口及时毕业，并增加这些学生将成功地追求研究事业的可能性。

Biological Sciences (61). This project is transforming traditional undergraduate courses in cell biology and developmental biology, providing undergraduates with opportunities to design, execute, analyze, and report on original experimental questions in these fields using some of the most significant and broadly applicable techniques in modern biology. By adapting the research techniques of fluorescence microscopy, stereomicroscopy, digital imaging, microsurgery, and microinjection into new, innovative, inquiry-based undergraduate laboratory experiences, it is providing students with a real-world view of the process of modern biology while developing their technical, collaborative, and communicative skills. Inquiry-based modern investigations of topics in cell and developmental biology, such as cell morphology, organelle function, cell fate, tissue development and organogenesis, stimulate students' intellectual growth, foster ownership in their work, encourage initiative, and help prepare them to be effective citizens, teachers, and scientists in our increasingly technological society. By increasing opportunities for students to participate in the process of science earlier in their undergraduate experience, the project is increasing recruitment, retention, and the timely graduation of students in the sciences at an institution with a highly diverse student population, and increasing the probability that these students will successfully pursue careers in research.