27 Aug Week 1: community building, pipets, serial dilutions, GenBio-MAPS if first intro bio course
1) Community Building (Morning
Recording) (Afternoon
Recording)
2) Serial Dilutions
3) GenBio-MAPS for those taking their first college biology course
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you for completing this biology assessment. Your responses will help us to
improve how we teach biology, so it is important that you answer to the
best of your ability. Please do not use outside resources to help you
complete this assessment.
The
assessment contains 15 biology questions and will take roughly 20-40
minutes to complete.
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statements. Based on the information given and your knowledge about
biology, select true or false for each of the true/false statements. Once
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The
Biology Department Faculty want our curriculum to be effective in aiding
your development and success. In order to assess our curriculum we need to
know how Davidson students perform in their first college biology course
and then determine if improvement occurs between that baseline data and
data collected from Biology majors after a two semesters of introductory
biology and during their final semester. Our analysis relies on you
providing your best effort in this assessment. This assessment is being
administered within your class as part of normal course practices, and you
will be awarded a small amount of credit for completing the survey, as
determined by your course instructor. After the survey is complete, there
will be a series of demographic questions.
3 Sep Week 2: Boil and Cool oligos, Golden Gate Assembly, transformation, plating for version 1
Golden Gate Assembly (GGA) and
Transformation (Morning
Recording) (Afternoon
Recording)
10 Sep Week 3: Colonies on plate, picking colonies, grow in LB amp (100 µg/mL) for version 1
Pick colonies and grow overnight (Morning: 1st 5 min; 4Qs; Q&A about PPTs) (Afternoon: 1st 5 min; 4Qs & videos; PPTs)
17 Sep Week 4: read fluorescence, start PCR for version 1
Measure phenotype, start PCR genotyping (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
24 Sep Week 5: gel electrophoresis and oral presentation preparation for version 1
Run agarose gel to determine promoter size (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
1 Oct Week 6: oral presentations and work on V2 promoter designs
Communicating Science to Colleagues (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
8 Oct Week 7: Golden Gate Assembly, transformation, plating for version 2
Repeat process for making dsDNA, GGA, transformation and plating (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
15 Oct Week 8: Colonies on plate, picking colonies (plus X1 from v1), grow in LB amp (100 µg/mL)for version 2
Repeat picking colonies + colony X1 from V1 promoter (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
22 Oct Week 9: read fluorescence, do minipreps, nanodrop DNA and calculate dilutions
Repeat process of measuring fluorescence, extract DNA from cells (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
29 Oct Week 10: dilute DNA, send off for sequencing
Send off DNA to be sequenced (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
5 Nov Week 11: Clustal Omega DNA sequence alignment
Analyze promoter sequences (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
12 Nov Week 12: work on lab report
Prepare Final Lab Report (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)
19 Nov Week 13: lab report due, graduate fellowships, course evaluations, GenBio-MAPS if last intro bio course
Last lab meeting (Morning Recording) (Afternoon Recording)