New 'Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience' offered at Lehigh Valley

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. 中国博彩平台与一家领先的国际生物技术公司的新合作伙伴关系将有助于培养合格的未来研究人员.

Jacqueline McLaughlin, 利哈伊谷生物学教授和中国博彩平台CHANCE项目的创始主任, and Yu Mi Jeong, lab technician, co-developed a new Course-Based Undergraduate Experience (CURE), 其中重点是开发最佳细胞培养条件，以研究哺乳动物主动脉内皮细胞的糖萼使用最先进的方法. To do this, McLaughlin and Jeong have teamed up with biotech company AMSBIO.

As part of this partnership, AMSBIO has so far donated approximately $3,000的分子生物学试剂和技术专长，以协助这项本科生的研究努力. Penn State Lehigh Valley students taking the biology majors course, "BIOL 230W: Cells and Molecules，“已经在参与这种治疗，并对其潜力表示兴奋.

与AMSBIO合作直接符合McLaughlin对本科生研究的承诺，并为她的学生提供尽可能多的机会从事真正的科学研究, she said.

“It has always been my way to build partnerships with entities near and far, be it academic, governmental, 能够支持和扩大对社会有真实价值的本科生研究的非政府组织或公司,” McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin还以创建基于课程的本科生研究体验(CUREs)而闻名。.

“CURE是一种沉浸式的实验室活动，让全班学生参与解决科学界和整个社会感兴趣的研究问题或问题," she said. “余米和我开发了这种新的治疗方法来解决内皮功能障碍的问题, 这是心血管疾病(CVD)的一种常见的早期事件，当血管细胞薄层受损时就会发生. 了解血管内皮有助于降低发生心血管疾病及其表现的风险, such as heart attack, atherosclerosis, impaired vasodilation, inflammation and stroke.” 

After developing their CURE, 接下来是最关键的部分——为所需的细胞和分子试剂提供资金，并遵循最先进的免疫荧光显微镜协议.

“We made a wish-list of what was needed and determined how much this CURE, in particular, would cost," she said. "It was over $3,000 just for reagents. 我想不出比AIMSBIO更好的合作伙伴了。AIMSBIO是一家开发和销售用于细胞研究的最高质量抗体和荧光探针的生物技术公司. So, call I called them up!”  

According to the company’s website, AMSBIO的使命是成为一家盈利的优质生命科学研究试剂和服务的首要供应商，帮助客户开发创新的方法, processes, products, and medicines. AMSBIO为全球市场的中小型制造商提供独特的合作伙伴关系, academic groups, 并通过为最终用户和合作伙伴提供最先进和具有成本效益的解决方案来创收生物技术.

The Penn State Lehigh Valley and AMSBIO partnership now is underway.  

“学生们现在正在使用一种尖端技术，他们使用生物素化抗体和链亲和素荧光标签来定位培养的牛主动脉上皮细胞的糖萼成分," Jeong said.

Excitedly, she said, 这种伙伴关系不仅仅是提供试剂和程序建议. 公司代表将参加下学期关于生物技术职业的小组讨论.

“The employees at AIMSBIO are phenomenal scientists. 对于我们的学生来说，了解生物技术领域可以填补哪些空缺以及如何最好地进入就业市场是很重要的. AMSBIO sees the need to help train future biotech employees,” McLaughlin said.

她称这是一个“双赢”的伙伴关系——AMSBIO为学生提供进行研究所需的试剂, and in turn, Penn State Lehigh Valley produces a pool of trained, skilled biotech researchers for AMSBIO and other employers.

郑某也从CURE项目的专业工作中获益良多.

“通过在中国博彩平台共同开发一种新的与生物技术相关的细胞生物学疗法，, I’ve had opportunities to utilize new immunofluorescent methods, 细胞生物学中的成像软件功能和定量分析方法, 使实验结果更加准确，简化了学生的实验程序,” Jeong said. “Personally, these experiences have provided me with new insights and skills, allowing for my professional growth in the field of cell culture research.” 

不过，他们说，麦克劳克林和郑都得到了最终的好处. 

“看着学生们成长为称职的科研人员，我们感到很满足,” McLaughlin said.