An Integrated and Investigative Approach to Undergraduate Physiology Laboratories

这项申请是为购买数据采集/分析硬件以装备一门新的生理学实验室课程而提出的。这一举措是生理学课程全面改革的一部分。目前，只有一门核心生理学课程有实验室部分(哺乳动物生理学)。我们将取消该课程的实验部分，并创建一个新的研究性实验室体验--综合生理学实验室(IPL)，它将为所有生理学讲座课程提供服务。这门实验课程将在学生生理学分析和研究中心(SPARC)进行。这门课程本质上是比较的，对比了不同分类和组织层面上常见问题的生理适应。模型系统将包括植物、脊椎动物、无脊椎动物、原生动物和真菌。我们将探索从细胞到生物体的所有11个层次的复杂性。我们的方法给了学生一个独特的机会，让他们看到所有生命系统的共同问题，以及他们处理这些问题的不同方式。这项计划的成本效益和教学上的可取性证明了我们当前生理学课程的竞争性更新是合理的。

This request is for funding to purchase data acquisition/analysis hardware to equip a new physiology laboratory course. This initiative is part of an overall renovation of the physiology curriculum. Currently, only one core physiology course has a laboratory component (Mammalian Physiology). We will eliminate the lab portion of that course and create a new investigative laboratory experience the Integrated physiology Laboratory (IPL), that will service all of the physiology lecture courses. This laboratory course will be based in the Student Physiology Analysis and Research Center (SPARC). The course will be comparative in nature, contrasting physiological adaptations to common problems across taxonomic and organizational levels. Model systems will include plants, vertebrates invertebrates, prokayotes and fungi. We will explore a11 levels of complexity from the cellular to the organismal. Our approach gives the students a unique opportunity to see the common problems of all living systems and their diverse ways of handling those problems. The cost effectiveness and the pedagogical desirability of this plan justify a compete renovation of our current physiology program.