Project Details
Abstract
Because of its small size, rapid growth, and easy handle, Caenorhabditis elegans becomes a
popular model organism as the other larger and higher organisms, i.e., Drosophila, zebrafish
and mouse. After two Nobel prizes of physiology and medicine have been awarded to C.
elegans researchers in 2002 and 2006, the number of C. elegans lab is growing rapidly
worldwide. Several key websites (wormBase, wormAtlas, and wormBook) have been
established to promote the worm research by the “worm community”. It is an obvious trend
that worm will be more popular for life science research in the 21st century. However, in
Taiwan, there are only few worm labs at the present time. Limited information and
knowledge of C. elegans is publicized. In contrast to the advanced countries, no information
of worm is found in the text book of high school. Therefore, this three-year proposal of
REST (research experience for science teachers) will use C. elegans as a teaching material
to pass the knowledge and technology to high school biology teachers. After they have
learned the basic knowledge, they can teach students to use C. elegans as a genetics material
to lead students familiar with worm and to inspire their interests in doing life science.
Furthermore, through this project, few high school teachers will participate in the high-aim
research in neuroscience to solidify the foundation of life science teaching and research in
high schools.
Project IDs
Project ID:PF9801-1616
External Project ID:NSC96-2514-S182-001-MY3
External Project ID:NSC96-2514-S182-001-MY3
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 01/12/09 → 30/11/10 |
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