Biotechnology Laboratory Series For Undergraduates

该奖项为伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳分校微生物学系提供资金，为拥有入门微生物学实验室并对学习更先进的现代分子生物学和生化技术感兴趣的本科生配备为期三个学期的生物技术实验室系列。该系列将面向毕业后想要在工业领域工作的学生，或者想要从事生物技术和应用微生物学方面的研究生工作的学生。该系列将包括(I)主要是放线菌和真菌的工业重要微生物的遗传学和生物化学课程，(Ii)致病细菌的遗传学和生物化学课程，以及(Iii)免疫化学课程。这一学期的课程可以单独学习，也可以按任何顺序作为系列课程学习。虽然这些实验室课程的主要目标是教授现代分子技术，但它们也是为了培养解决问题和定量的技能，并将给学生提供书面和口头陈述数据的经验。目前，该系在所有三个领域都提供了课程，但只有免疫化学课程完全融入了最先进的现代技术。通过这项奖励购买的设备将使目前的工业微生物学和病原微生物学课程得到更新。更新后的课程将为本科生的生物技术教学开辟新的天地，因此应该成为其他高校此类课程的典范。受赠人正在将该奖项与非联邦来源相匹配。

This award provides funds to the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois, Urbana to equip a three-semester biotechnology laboratory series for undergraduates who have had an introductory microbiology laboratory and are interested in learning more advanced modern molecular biology and biochemical techniques. The series would be aimed at students who want to work in industry after graduation or who want to do graduate work in biotechnology and applied microbiology. The series would consist of (i) a course in genetics and biochemistry of industrially important microorganisms, primarily actinomycetes and fungi, (ii) a course in genetics and biochemistry of pathogenic bacteria, and (iii) a course in immunochemistry. These one semester courses could be taken alone or as a series in any order. Although the main goal of these laboratory courses is to teach modern molecular techniques, they are also designed to develop problem solving and quantitative skills, and would give students experience in written and oral presentation of data. Courses in all three areas are currently offered in the department but only the immunochemistry course has fully incorporated state-of-the-art modern techniques. The equipment purchased through this award will allow the current industrial microbiology and pathogenic microbiology courses to be updated. The updated courses will break new ground in biotechnology instruction for undergraduates and should thus serve as prototypes for such courses in other colleges and universities. The grantee is matching this award with non-Federal sources.