An Integrated and Investigative Approach to Undergraduate Physiology Laboratories

本科生生理学实验室的综合研究方法

• 批准号: 9850715
• 负责人: George Davis
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2001-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9850715&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrated; Investigative; Approach; Undergraduate; Physiology

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.

该请求旨在提供资金购买数据采集/分析硬件，以装备新的生理学实验室课程。这一举措是生理学课程全面革新的一部分。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室部分，并创建一个新的研究实验室体验——综合生理学实验室（IPL），该实验室将为所有生理学讲座课程提供服务。该实验课程将在学生生理学分析和研究中心 (SPARC) 进行。 该课程本质上是比较性的，将生理适应与分类学和组织层面的常见问题进行对比。模型系统将包括植物、脊椎动物、无脊椎动物、原核生物和真菌。 我们将探索从细胞到有机体的 11 个复杂程度。 我们的方法为学生提供了一个独特的机会来了解所有生命系统的常见问题以及他们处理这些问题的不同方式。 该计划的成本效益和教学上的可取性证明了对我们当前的生理学计划进行全面革新的合理性。