Known structure, unknown function: An inquiry-based undergraduate biochemistry laboratory course.

ABSTRACT: Undergraduate biochemistry laboratory courses often do not provide students with an authentic research experience, particularly when the express purpose of the laboratory is purely instructional. However, an instructional laboratory course that is inquiry- and research-based could simultaneously impart scientific knowledge and foster a student's research expertise and confidence. We have developed a year-long undergraduate biochemistry laboratory curriculum wherein students determine, via experiment and computation, the function of a protein of known three-dimensional structure. The first half of the course is inquiry-based and modular in design; students learn general biochemical techniques while gaining preparation for research experiments in the second semester. Having learned standard

SUBMITTER: Gray C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4758391 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature