840:153g/2008

Course Overview

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We have 16 students in class which will work in teams of two throughout the semester. Each team will clone a hop (this is the name of the plant :-) gene, amplify it in E. coli and verify the integrity of a functional gene.

As a student, you have to select a gene from the NCBI database and clone the coding region only (no introns are allowed). In your team, you need to develop a strategy for cloning the gene, including a procedure for verification that you actually cloned the full coding region of the right gene. The approach must be written up in form of a research proposal and approved by the instructor before lab work can commence.

Your team will need to develop a website at OWW in which you describe your project (in form of the proposal). The project description should make up the first page of the online notebook. I also require that you write a DAILY online lab notebook (once lab work has started) for EACH and EVERY lab session. This online notebook must contain all procedures carried out during the lab session, including description and discussion of results. It should also contain a brief description of the steps you planned for the next session and material needed.

Teaching Approach

You just started your new job in the genetic engineering lab at Monsanto. The laboratory head told you that management came up with a new gene sequence that was recently published. He was asked to produce the protein in the lab to generate specific antibodies against it. He just remembers the accession number of the gene but forgot what it was. He asks you to look up the gene in the database and tell him what it codes for (select your favourite plant gene here). Then he asks you as the new laboratory technician to make a suggestion from which source it would be best to clone it and to advise an experimental strategy to do so. This is why he hired you 6 weeks ago. Since he has to leave for a conference overseas he cannot provide you any assistance until he is back in two weeks. But he expects you to develop an experimental plant until then. The only help he can give you is the assistance of the new undergraduate student who started working in the lab this week. However, since she also is new in the lab she has no clue how to do that. You two therefore sit together developing an experimental strategy. And you know: when your supervisor is back he expects your plan to be ready to go. There are you just two weeks left to prepare.

Getting Started with OWW

To get started with your online notebook, you have to apply for an account at OWW (which is free). Please write down your username and password from your confirmation email. After you obtained your account details, please go to the Project Page and start developing your project. There is help available on how to use this WIKI in the left-handed navigation pane and in the top menu bar.

Grading

A large and very important part of the class grade will be based on the online notebook. The notebook will be graded based on completeness, accuracy, and content. It will substitute for a paper lab notebook, although I strongly recommend to keep notes during each and every session (write down observations, calculations, remarks, etc.) The notebook has to be written at the day of the lab! No late entries (even 1 day) will be considered (the system we use gives time stamps !). Since each entry in OWW contains a time stamp and the name of user who writes it, this is very easy for me to monitor. Notebook writing is considered to be part of the work and therefore this work should be done during the lab. There will be lag times while experiments run and you should use those times for writing your notebook. The computer room is right next door.

Finally, I expect each group to clone their gene. If a group does not achieve it, the problems must be explained thoroughly in the notebook and evidence must be provided from the notebook that sufficient efforts have been undertaken to clone the gene. After all this is real science (none of the genes have been cloned) and there is no guarantee that any group will succeed. Therefore, keeping a good notebook is essential. The notebook will account for 40% of the grade and both partners receive the same grade for the notebook, weighed by a peer assessment. Both partners should therefore regularly take responsibility to develop a good notebook.

As the instructor, I will assign another 40% of the grade based everybody's individual contribution during class sessions (including preparation for class, discussion of experiments and results, timeliness, and teamwork). The remaining 20% will be given for the project presentation. One member of each team will give a midterm presentation (before spring break), the other member will give a final presentation (the week before finals). Both presentation should give an overview of what has been done - and achieved - in the project. It will be essential to provide experimental data and discuss them with classmates.

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