Divan, Aysha ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5074-8277, Alzahrani, Areej, Shaik, Faheem, Mitchell, Joanna, Harrison, Michael A., Odell, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6855-7214 and Ponnambalam, Sreenivasan (2023) A research‐led flexible cell biology practical for biological sciences undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education.

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Abstract

A challenge in the pandemic era is to implement effective but flexible practical teaching for biological sciences courses. Such teaching needs to deliver conceptual, analytical and practical skills training while having the option to rapidly respond to health and safety issues, local regulations, staff and student concerns. In this paper, we describe a set of cell biology practicals (mini-project) that meets many of these requirements and provides flexibility in providing skills training both through online and in practical laboratory environments. We have used a human adenocarcinoma cell line A431 stably transfected with a fluorescent cell cycle reporter as a biological model to deliver training through discrete work packages encompassing cell culture, fluorescence microscopy, biochemistry and statistics. How such work packages can be modified to, an online format either partially or completely is also described. Furthermore, the activities can be adapted for teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate level courses to ensure effective skills training which is applicable to a wide range of biological degree programs and levels of study.

Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21735
School/Department:	School of Science, Technology and Health
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/7868

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