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| Another 25% of the grade will assigned by the instructor. I will assess everybody's contribution during class sessions (including preparation for class, discussion of experiments and results, timeliness, and teamwork). The remaining 15% 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 in the project. It will be essential to provide experimental data and discuss them with classmates.
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840:153g: Recombinant DNA Te(a)chniques
Course overview
This page is the homepage of the course titled "840:153g". Current version: Fall 2008!
We have 16 students in class which will form groups of two throughout the semester. Each group will clone a hop (this is the name of the plant :-) gene, put it into E. coli and verify that they cloned a functional gene. Students have to select a gene from the NCBI database and clone the coding region only (no introns are allowed). They need to develop a strategy for cloning, including a procedure for verification that they actually cloned the full coding region of the gene. The approach must be written up in a research proposal and approved by the instructor before lab work can commence. Each group of students will need to develop a website at OWW where they describe their project (in form of the proposal). I require that students write a DAILY online lab notebook for each lab session. This online notebook must contain all procedures carried out during the lab session, including description of results, and discussion of the next steps. Everything must relate to the proposal.
Grading
The largest part of the grading 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 the session to 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. Since each entry in OWW contains a time stamp and the name of user who writes it, this is very easy to monitor. Notebook writing is considered to be part of the work and therefore this work should be done during the lab. The computer room is next door - so please start writing during experimental lag times.
Finally, I expect that each group clones 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 60% 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 make entries into the notebook.
As the instructor, I will assign another 25% of the grade. I will assess everybody's contribution during class sessions (including preparation for class, discussion of experiments and results, timeliness, and teamwork). The remaining 15% 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 in the project. It will be essential to provide experimental data and discuss them with classmates.
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