Establishment of a Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse

目前对生命系统更多的机械论或分子理解的趋势统一了生物学的许多不同领域。正因为如此，所有生物专业的学生现在都需要意识到以前只在高级遗传学和分子生物学课程中教授的进展。为了满足这一需求，威斯康星大学拉克罗斯分校的生物和微生物学系正在将新的练习纳入到遗传学和细胞生物学这两门必修课的实验室中。此外，我们还为细胞和分子生物学专业的生物学专业开辟了一条新的道路。最后，该部门批准将一座植物标本馆改建为现代细胞生物学和分子遗传学实验室，用于本科教学。该奖项提供的设备正用于细胞生物学和分子遗传学实验室教授的课程。这些课程包括遗传学和细胞生物学的实验室部分，以及两门选修课，分子生物学和植物生长与发育。这些课程的改进使所有生物专业的学生都获得了当今研究和工业中使用的许多最新技术的经验。这些包括克隆、组织培养、分子诊断和重组蛋白的表达。此外，学生现在可以在以前只在课堂上讨论的主题上进行实验，例如发育生物学、细胞分化和RFLP分析。该设备正在极大地改革每年为400多名学生提供服务的核心课程。

The current trend towards a more mechanistic or molecular understanding of living systems has unified many diverse fields of biology. Because of this, all biology majors now need to be aware of advances that previously were only taught in advanced genetics and molecular biology courses. In response to this need, the Department of Biology and Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is incorporating new exercises into the laboratories of to two required courses, Genetics and Cell Biology. In addition we have created a new track for biology majors in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Finally, the department approved the remodeling of a herbarium into a modern Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory for undergraduate instruction. The equipment supplied by this award is being used in the courses taught in the Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Laboratory. These include the laboratory sections of Genetics and Cell Biology as well as two electives, Molecular Biology and Plant Growth and Development. The improvements in these courses are giving all biology majors experience in many of the most current technologies used in research and industry today. These include cloning, tissue culture, molecular diagnostics, and the expression of recombinant proteins. In addition, students are now able to perform experiments on topics that were previously only covered in lecture, such as developmental biology, cellular differentiation and RFLP analysis. The equipment is dramatically reforming core courses which serve over 400 students a year.