Teaching Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics in Community Colleges

项目概述该项目正在提高社区学院在基因组技术方面的教学能力。通过社区大学教师的努力和合作，该项目的产品很容易获得和随时更新的教学材料，以及准备使用它们的社区大学教师。以前的努力非常成功地帮助社区大学教师掌握影响生物技术相关研究的基本技术，并帮助他们将适当的课程和实验室纳入其课程。该项目正在促进在当前计划下开始的工作的扩展，该计划在社区学院和加州大学戴维斯分校之间建立了一个地区联盟，专注于分子生物学、基因组学和相关科学学科的教育活动的发展。该计划正在为社区大学教师开发现代生物技术、基因组学、功能基因组学和生物信息学领域的核心课程材料。该项目提供为期一周的分子生物学和分子诊断学暑期学院，介绍分子生物学和分子诊断学的原理及其在生物技术中的应用。一个名为功能基因组学和生物信息学的新研究所正在启动。对于社区大学来说，生物信息学是一个非常及时和合适的主题，因为它建立在分子生物学现有的和不断扩大的技能基础上，而我们之前的努力已经帮助培养了这些技能，而且大多数社区大学已经重视计算机科学。显然，在新的千禧年，接受生物信息学培训的毕业生将有很多就业机会。正在为社区大学和高中教师提供课本、手册、实验室工具包和其他教学材料。在可能的情况下，可从方案网站下载材料，以便于访问和快速传播。Http://universityextension.ucdavis.edu/molbio/biotech，Htin

Project SummaryThis project is improving the instructional capabilities of community colleges in genomic technologies. The products of this project, through the efforts of and collaborations with community college instructors, are easily accessible and readily updated instructional materials as well as community college instructors who are prepared to use them. Previous efforts were extremely successful in helping to educate community college instructors on the basic technologies that impact biotechnology-related research and in helping them to integrate appropriate courses and laboratories into their curricula. This project is facilitating expansion of the work begun under the current program that established a regional coalition among community colleges and UC Davis focused on the development of educational activities in molecular biology, genomics, and related scientific disciplines. The program is developing core curriculum material for community college faculty in the areas of modern biotechnology, genomics, functional genomics, and bioinformatics. The program offers week-long summer institutes in Molecular Biology and Molecular Diagnostics in which the principles of molecular biology and molecular diagnostics and their application in biotechnology are introduced. A new institute titled Functional Genomics and bioinformatics is being initiated. Bioinformatics is a very timely and appropriate topic for community colleges as it builds on the present and expanding skills in molecular biology, which our previous efforts have helped to foster, and on the computer science emphasis already in place at most community colleges. It is clear that there will be many career opportunities for graduates with bioinformatics training in the new millenium. Texts, manuals, laboratory kits, and other instructional materials are being made available for community college and high school instructors. Where possible, material is downloadable from the program web site to allow easy acess and rapid dissemination. http://universityextension.ucdavis.edu/molbio/biotech,htin