Modernization and Expansion of Equipment for Teaching Laboratories in Neurobiology and Animal Physiology

该奖项提供资金，用于维克森林大学生物系神经生物学和动物生理学实验室的现代化改造和扩建。生理学是对生物体的功能进行分析的科学。生理学应该是任何全面的本科生物课程的一部分。生理学可以作为分子生物学与行为生物学和生态生物学之间的桥梁。神经生物学，包括神经系统生理学，是一个不断发展的生物学领域，参加神经科学学会年度会议的人数越来越多，该领域的资金也越来越多，这就是明证。神经生物学(神经生理学)和生理学的实验室为本科生提供了操纵和检查系统的机会，这些系统可以与他们自己的身体相关。许多参加这些课程的学生都在为医学、牙科和兽医的专业职业生涯做准备。生理学实验室为学生提供了测试他们的手工技能和灵活性的机会，他们可能会在未来的职业生涯中使用这些技能。神经生物学和动物生理学课程每学期交替教授，新设备将用于这两门课程。新的仪器将产生几种影响。(1)它将免费提供私人情报局目前用来教授神经生物学实验室的研究设备。(2)它将允许更多的学生参加神经生物学实验室。(3)允许增加动物生理学实验的数量。(4)它将允许动物生理学的学生同时进行相同的实验。(5)将向学生介绍计算机在生理科学中的使用。受赠人正在将该奖项与非联邦来源进行匹配。

This award provides funds to modernize and expand the Neurobiology and Animal Physiology laboratories in the Biology Department at Wake Forest University. The science of physiology is the analysis of function in living organisms. Physiology should be a part of any well-rounded undergraduate biology curriculum. Physiology can serve as a bridge between molecular biology and behavioral and ecological biology. Neurobiology, which includes the physiology of the nervous system, is a growing area of biology as evidenced in the increasing number of participants at the annual society for Neuroscience Meeting and the increase in funding in that area. Laboratories in neurobiology (neurophysiology) and physiology give undergraduate students a chance to manipulate and examine systems which they can relate to their own bodies. Many of the students taking these courses are preparing for professional careers in medicine, dentistry, and veterinary medicine. Physiology laboratories give students an opportunity to test their manual skills and dexterity which they may use in their future careers. The Neurobiology and Animal Physiology courses are taught in alternate semesters and the new equipment will be used in both courses. The new instrumentation will have several effects. (1) It will free research equipment that the P.I. is now using to teach the Neurobiology laboratories. (2) It will allow more students to take the Neurobiology lab. (3) It will allow for an increase in the number of experiments performed in Animal Physiology. (4) It will allow students in Animal Physiology to do the same experiments at the same time. (5) It will introduce students to the use of computers in physiological science. The grantee is matching this award with non-federal sources.