Investigating Interdisciplinary Interactions: The Annual BioQUEST Summer Workshop 2005

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Travel and Housing

LABlinC - Learning about Biology interfacing with Chemistry

Authors Audiences Overview Materials Resources Future Directions

Authors

Joyce Cadwallader Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College	Ehren Bucholtz Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods College	Sarah Prescott Kenick University of New Hampshire
Douglas Luckie Michigan State University	Ryan Sweeder Michigan State University

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Possible Audiences:

Undergraduates (major and non-majors), College faculty in Biology and Chemistry.

Brief Overview:

This project develops several interdisciplinary laboratory sequences to investigate overlapping concepts in both biology and chemistry laboratories. The design of the activies are intended to be flexible to accomodate both lower and upper division course such as general biology and general chemistry or biochemistry.

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Project Materials:

Three laboratory modules provided:

1. Sugar Lab Synthesis and purification of glucose analogues followed by student-designed fermentation bioassay.

2. Pigment Lab Student-designed analysis of natural pigments including isolation and quantification.

3. DNA Lab Identification of plasmid DNA via multiple assays including bioinformatics and chemical analysis.

This links to a QuickTime movie that shows students doing inquiry-based labs. It was filmed at Michigan State University by students filming other students in the process of doing science. This is a 15 MB file, so it may take some time to load.

LABlinC_inquiry_looks_like.mov

Future Directions:

Develop more modules in keeping with the theme of connecting the Biology and Chemistry laboratories.

Attachments

- LABlinC_32.ppt
- TLC_protocol.pdf
- Spec bee.isf
- DNA bee.isf
- Sugarlab bee.isf
- LABlinC_4.ppt

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