Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Learning Experience in Biophotonics

跨学科科学(99)对生物光子学领域熟练从业人员的教育和培训显然有益于社会，并通过仪器和分析将几个科学学科联系起来。生物光子学的各种形式和形式的应用对现代生命科学研究产生了深远的影响，因此，加强这一重要科学领域的本科生教育是非常必要的。生物光子学研究具有非凡的科学广度，这使得一个科学部门几乎不可能在这个快速发展的科学领域提供全面基础教育所需的所有主题。该项目正在开发一个跨学科的生物光子学本科生实验室/讲座课程(21学分)，涉及肯特州立大学生物、化学和物理系的教师。课程主题包括荧光和显微镜的基本原理、有机荧光团的合成、高级荧光光谱学和显微镜在细胞生物学中的应用。本实验课程以学生设计的利用高端生物光子学仪器的项目结束。

Interdisciplinary Sciences (99) The education and training of skilled practitioners in the fields of biophotonics is clearly a benefit to society and connects several science disciplines through instrumentation and analysis. Biophotonic applications in their many shapes and forms have a profound influence on modern life science research and it is therefore highly desirable to improve the education of undergraduate students in this vital scientific area. The exceptional scientific breadth of biophotonic research makes it virtually impossible for a single science department to deliver all topics necessary for a well-rounded basic education in this rapidly progressing scientific area. This project is developing an interdisciplinary biophotonics undergraduate laboratory/lecture course (2+1 credit hours) that involves faculty from Kent State's Biology, Chemistry and Physics departments. Course topics include basic principles of fluorescence and microscopy, organic fluorophore synthesis, advanced fluorescence spectroscopy and the use of microscopy in cell biology. The lab course concludes with a student designed project that utilizes high-end biophotonics instrumentation.