Equipment for a Modern Undergraduate Molecular Genetics Laboratory

该系利用目前的奖项采购现代核酸研究教学所需的设备，为学生提供探索重组DNA技术和蛋白质分析等现代研究技术的机会。DNA电泳仪和蛋白质凝胶电泳仪以及重组DNA工作中所需的辅助设备，如微型离心机、微型移液器、紫外光透射器、SPEED真空吸尘器、真空炉、摇床孵化器、超声仪和冷柜，将被学生用于一门新的课程--分子遗传学，以及已经建立的两门核心课程。学生学习蛋白质化学、DNA结构、RNA表达和重组DNA技术中使用的其他协议。在五年的时间里，大约有250名本科生参加了平均每个学生三到四门课程，他们将拥有广泛的实践经验。该项目是该大学为学生提供迅速发展的基因工程和重组DNA技术领域课程的积极步骤之一。一名在这些领域拥有专业知识的生物学教员于1987年受聘，正在设计新的分子遗传学课程。接受资助的机构正在将NSF的奖励与从非联邦来源获得的同等金额相匹配。

This department is using the present award to procure the equipment needed for teaching of modern nucleic acid research, providing students an opportunity to explore such modern research techniques as recombinant DNA technology and protein analysis. DNA electrophoresis and protein gel electrophoresis units along with such supportive equipment needed in work with recombinant DNA as a micro- centrifuge, micropipetters, a UV transilluminator, speed vac, vacuum oven, shaker incubator, sonicator, and cold cabinet are being used by students in a new course, Molecular Genetics, as well as in two already established core courses. Students learn protein chemistry, DNA structure, RNA expression, and other protocols used in recombinant DNA technology. In a five-year period about 250 undergraduates involved in an average of three to four courses per student will have extensive hands-on experience with this equipment. This project is one result of the university's positive steps toward providing its students with classes in the rapidly expanding field of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology. A biology faculty member with expertise in these fields, hired in 1987, is designing the new Molecular Genetics course. The grantee institution is matching the NSF award with an equal sum obtained from non-Federal sources.