Immunology--A New Capstone Course for Undergraduate Biology Majors.
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A new capstone course required of biology majors is being created.              Immunology is replacing the course which has served a capstone function         for the past 22 years, Plant Physiology.  Immunofluorescence                    electrophoretic procedures, and cell culture--hybridoma production are          becoming part of a revised Immunology laboratory curriculum.  This              revised curriculum is seeking to ensure that biology majors are                 knowledgeable and well-trained in the areas of experimental design;             discipline in experimental work; care of living organisms; precision in         manipulative work; use of instrumentation; data collection; data                analysis; and report writing.  Microscopes, protein electrophresis and          immunoductrophoresis equipment are being used by the students.                  Specifically, the immunology laboratory includes three new project areas        in which students generate and test hypotheses:  humoral immunity               (producing antisera to soluble antigens, protein determinations, and            electrophoretic/immunoelectrophoretic/- immunodiffusion demonstrations          of antibody specificity and titer), immunolabelling (producing antisera         to bacterial antigens, purifying and labelling antibodies and subsequent        demonstration of their specificity with immunofluorescence), and                cellular immunity" (demonstrating populations of T- and B-lymphocytes,          culture of mouse myeloma cells, fusion of myeloma cells with stimulated         mouse splenic lymphocytes, and attemps to identify monoclonal antibody-         producing cells).
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