Developmental Biology CD-ROM

我们将制作一张名为《发育生物学多媒体指南》的光盘。这张光盘计划包括课本中无法包含的内容：动物发育的动态图像(连同动画、画外音和贴有标签的照片以帮助学习者)，使每个学习者能够访问原始文献的研究论文，使人能够理解复杂实验方案的互动动画，使人能够通过改变细胞黏附、迁移等参数来对发育进行建模的互动程序，对帮助构建学科框架的研究人员的采访，胚胎学历史上的论文，以及辩论当代发育生物学家所关心的伦理问题的立场论文(性别选择、基因治疗等)。这些演示文稿将通过三个层次索引和超文本相互联系。我们计划在几个领域创造不同程度的复杂性，从入门级(中学)到研究生级。虽然水平较低的学生可以从观看视频和动画中获益很多，但水平较高的学生现在可以通过各种演示计划自己的道路。我们希望在首席调查员休假期间开发该项目的1.0版，并以“成本价”出售由此产生的光盘。它将是多平台的，可以与任何发育生物学或胚胎学的教科书(不一定是由P.I.编写的教科书)一起使用。1.0版将包含受精、胚胎卵裂、原肠发育、细胞规格、诱导、发育神经生物学、性别决定、变态、配子发生和差异基因表达等部分。

We will be constructing a CD-ROM entitled A Multimedia Companion to Developmental Biology. This CD-ROM is planned to include those things that cannot be contained in a textbook: moving images of animal development (along with animations, voice-overs, and labeled photographs to assist the learner), research papers that enable each learner access to primary literature, interactive animations that enable one to understand complex experimental protocols, interactive programs that enable one to model development by changing the parameters of cell adhesion, migration, etc., interviews with researchers whose work helped frame the discipline, papers in the history of embryology, and position papers debating issues of ethical concern to contemporary developmental biologists (sex selection, gene therapy, etc.) These presentations will be connected to one another through three hierarchical indices and through hypertext. We plan to create different levels of complexity, from entry level (middle-school) through graduate levels, in several areas. While less advanced students can gain much from watching the videos and animations, more advanced students can now plan their own paths through the various presentations. We hope to develop Version 1.0 of this project over the sabbatical leave of the Principal Investigator and to sell the resulting disc "at cost." It will be multiplatform and could be used with any textbook in developmental biology or embryology (not necessarily the one authored by the P.I.) Version 1.0 would contain sections on fertilization, embryonic cleavage, gastrulation, cell specification, induction, developmental neurobiology, sex determination, metamorphosis, gametogenesis, and differential gene expression.