Instrumentation for New Cellular and Molecular Biology Course

这个项目的目标是为实验室准备一门细胞和分子生物学的新的必修课。这门课程已被移至学院独特的春季短期课程，以改善和扩大学生的实验体验。(在这个春季学期，贝茨的学生沉浸在一门课程中。这种时间表允许比正常的三到四个小时的实验室时间更长、更多的开放式实验室体验。)新设备还将允许学生在细胞分离、电泳、柱层析、酶学和细胞培养等基本技术方面进行更个性化的指导。通过这一奖项所取得的进步预计将显著加强学生在这门课程中的技术技能，并对目前在系教授的高级实验室选修课产生重大的次要影响。通过该合同采购的仪器包括超速离心机、12孔过滤歧管、组织培养和细胞采集设备、电泳仪、组分收集器和其他层析仪器。

The goal of this project is to equip the laboratory for a new, required course in Cellular and Molecular Biology. This course has been moved to the college's unique Spring Short Term to allow improvement and expansion of the laboratory experience afforded the students. (During this Spring Term, Bates students immerse themselves in a single course. This scheduling permits longer, more open-ended laboratory experiences than are possible to fit into the normal laboratory period of three or four hours.) The new equipment also will allow more individualized student instruction in such basic techniques as cell fractionation, electrophoresis, column chromatography, enzymology, and cell culturing. The improvements made through this award are expected to strengthen significantly the technical skills of students in this course, and to have a major secondary effect on the advanced laboratory electives currently taught in the Department. Instruments procured through the award include ultracentrifuges, a 12-port filtering manifold, tissue culture and cell harvesting apparati, electrophoresis equipment, fraction collectors and other chromatography instruments.