Lux Genes/ National Science Foundation Funding: New Light and Life in Biology Teaching Laboratories

 

Carole Corsby

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 1998, Volume 19

Abstract

The phenomenon of bioluminescence provides an exciting avenue for introducing molecular genetics to biology students. In 1992, a collaborative effort at Auburn University between two colleagues working in separate teaching and research laboratories resulted in an introductory level molecular biology teaching exercise using lux genes and E. coli cells. This exercise “Transformation of E. coli” was presented as a mini workshop at the 1994 ABLE meeting at Emory University. As a participant in the Emory meeting, the author attended a mini workshop on grant writing presented by a representative from the National Science Foundation. The enthusiasm and suggestions garnered from this workshop stimulated the author to return to Auburn University determined to complete an equipment grant proposal to NSF for the continuation, expansion, and improvement of this work. The NSF grant proposal (R. Lishak, C. Corsby, J. Shaw) which was submitted in November, 1994 was funded in August, 1995.

Keywords:  genetics

University of Calgary (1997)