加强微生物学基本操作技能训练, 提高学生的主观能动性

为了加强学生对微生物学基本操作技术的掌握,培养学生的创新精神和实践能力,从微生物学实验课程的教学内容安排、教学方式方法以及微生物学实验考核方式等几个方面进行了改革,阐述了具体措施与成效。     

改革微生物学实验教学,激发学生创新潜力

培养创新型人才是"双一流"的重要建设任务,微生物学实验作为生物学科的重要基础课程,对学生实践能力和综合素质的提高,培养学生的创新意识和科研精神起着至关重要的作用。通过理清微生物学实验项目间内在联系,优化实验方案,构建细菌分离鉴定综合实验,改革微生物学实验教学体系;同时,引入新媒体教学,改革考评方式,以注重培养学生的学习兴趣、自主学习能力、创新思维和综合能力。     

环境工程微生物学考核方式改革与实践

环境工程微生物学是环境工程专业的重要专业基础课,本文对环境工程微生物学考核方式改革进行探索,论述了教学改革的具体实施办法和课程改革成效。课程考核采用考试、课堂表现、作业、小组讨论和课程论文相结合的方式进行。通过考核,使学生变被动学习为主动学习,加强学生对知识的掌握;提高学生文献检索能力,使其关注学科前沿,具备基本的科研理念;培养学生团队合作意识;培养学生学以致用的能力。环境工程微生物学考核的实施贯穿整个课程的学习过程,取得了较好的教学效果。     

信息化知识竞赛的新型受体考核方式探索

为了强化信息技术应用,提升学生的信息素养和综合能力,提高教学效果,大连大学生命科学与技术学院的微生物学教研组首次发明"信息化知识竞赛"的新型受体考核,将信息化技术性答题与受体考核带进微生物学课程考核中,形成先学生"出题、答题",后教师"审题"的考核方式。结果表明此种新型的受体考核方式更有利于提升学生的信息素养,培养学生的综合能力,得到了学生的广泛认可。     

食品微生物学实验教学过程中培养学生创新能力的实践与探索

对食品微生物学实验教学中的基础性实验、综合应用性实验、设计性实验等各层次的教学内容、教学手段、考核方式等进行改革和探索,创建适合培养广东海洋大学食品科学与工程、食品质量与安全专业学生的食品微生物学实验教学体系,对实验教学中遇到的难题提出了解决方法和思路,对提高学生动手能力,培养学生创新能力提供一些举措和思路。     

改革微生物学实验教学,提高大学生实践技能

总结近年来对微生物学实验教学改革的实践,确定实验教学体系的主要内容,注意以人为本,通过改革实验项目和考核方式,培养学生的实践能力。     

也谈微生物学的试题库建设

对微生物学试题库题目的命题进行改革,以新的思路和灵活多变的方式改革命题形式,在培养学生分析和解决问题能力的基础上,更好的检验学生掌握知识的程度。     

着眼于基本能力培养的“微生物学实验”教学改革实践

"微生物学实验"是高校生物类专业本科生的必修基础课。以该课程传统教学方法中普遍存在的教学效果欠佳、学生基本技能掌握不牢等问题为出发点,拟把夯实基础、注重基本能力培养的分阶段教学策略应用于微生物学实验教学改革中。具体措施:学生课前预习微课操作视频、课内实践操作和课外参加各类创新实践相结合,通过该方式培养和提升学生的创新能力和应用能力。改革方案实施后,通过基础理论知识和实验操作技能考核及问卷调查对教学效果进行评价。结果表明,该教学方式的改进能通过激发学生的学习积极性和主动性,进而达到切实巩固和提高学生基本实验技能、促进学生基础知识积累的效果,同时也培养了学生的创新能力和实践应用能力。     

微生物学实验教学改革的若干实践

本文总结近年来对微生物学实验教学改革的实践, 确定实验教学体系的主要内容, 注意以人为本, 通过改革教学手段和考核方式, 培养学生的实践能力与创新精神。     

微生物学实验教学改革的若干实践

本文总结近年来对微生物学实验教学改革的实践,确定实验教学体系的主要内容,注意以人为本,通过改革教学手段和考核方式,培养学生的实践能力与创新精神.     

A Unique Protease Cleavage Site Predicted in the Spike Protein of the Novel Pneumonia Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Potentially Related to Viral Transmissibility

正Dear Editor,In December 2019, a novel human coronavirus caused an epidemic of severe pneumonia(Coronavirus Disease 2019,COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei, China(Wu et al. 2020; Zhu et al. 2020). So far, this virus has spread to all areas of China and even to other countries. The epidemic has caused 67,102 confirmed infections with 1526 fatal cases     

Curcuminoids as inhibitors of thioredoxin reductase: A receptor based pharmacophore study with distance mapping of the active site

Curcumin is the yellow pigment of turmeric that interacts irreversibly forming an adduct with thioredoxin reductase (TrxR), an enzyme responsible for redox control of cell and defence against oxidative stress. Docking at both the active sites of TrxR was performed to compare the potency of three naturally occurring curcuminoids, namely curcumin, demethoxy curcumin and bis-demethoxy curcumin. Results show that active sites of TrxR occur at the junction of E and F chains. Volume and area of both cavities is predicted. It has been concluded by distance mapping of the most active conformations that Se atom of catalytic residue SeCYS498, is at a distance of 3.56 from C13 of demethoxy curcumin at the E chain active site, whereas C13 carbon atom forms adduct with Se atom of SeCys 498. We report that at least one methoxy group in curcuminoids is necessary for interation with catalytic residues of thioredoxin. Pharmacophore of both active sites of the TrxR receptor for curcumin and demethoxy curcumin molecules has been drawn and proposed for design and synthesis of most probable potent antiproliferative synthetic drugs.     

Comparative morphology of the carpel in the Liliaceae: Hewardieae, Petrosavieae, and Tricyrteae

The young pistils in the melanthioid tribes, Hewardieae, Petrosavieae and Tricyrteae, are uniformly tricarpellate and syncarpous. They lack raphide idioblasts. All are multiovulate, with bitegmic ovules. The Petrosavieae are marked by the presence of septal glands and incomplete syncarpy. Tepals and stamens adhere to the ovary in the Hewardieae and the Petrosavieae but not in the Tricyrteae. Two vascular bundles occur in the stamens of the Hewartlieae and Tricyrtis latifolia. Ventral bundles in the upper part of the ovary of the Hewardieae are continuous with compound septal bundles and placental bundles in the lower part. Putative ventral bundles occur in the alternate position in the Tricyrteae and putative placental bundles in the opposite. position in the Petrosavieae. The dichtomously branched stigma in each carpel of the Tricyrteae is supplied by a bifurcated dorsal bundle.     

Enterovirus 71 3C proteolytically processes the histone H3 N-terminal tail during infection

Highlights
1. The N-terminal tail of histone H3 is specifically cleaved during EV71 infection.
2. Viral protease 3C is identified as a protease responsible for proteolytically processing the N-terminal H3 tail.
3. Our finding reveals a new epigenetic regulatory mechanism for Enterovirus 71 in virus-host interactions.     

Detection of EBV and HHV6 in the Brain Tissue of Patients with Rasmussen’s Encephalitis

Rasmussen’s encephalitis (RE) is a rare pediatric neurological disorder, and the exact etiology is not clear. Viral infection may be involved in the pathogenesis of RE, but conflicting results have reported. In this study, we evaluated the expression of both Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and human herpes virus (HHV) 6 antigens in brain sections from 30 patients with RE and 16 control individuals by immunohistochemistry. In the RE group, EBV and HHV6 antigens were detected in 56.7% (17/30) and 50% (15/30) of individuals, respectively. In contrast, no detectable EBV and HHV6 antigen expression was found in brain tissues of the control group. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in 20.0% (6/30) of individuals. In particular, a 4-year-old boy had a typical clinical course, including a medical history of viral encephalitis, intractable epilepsy, and hemispheric atrophy. The co-expression of EBV and HHV6 was detected in neurons and astrocytes in the brain tissue, accompanied by a high frequency of CD8⁺ T cells. Our results suggest that EBV and HHV6 infection and the activation of CD8⁺ T cells are involved in the pathogenesis of RE.     

Perinatal Vertical Transmission of Chikungunya Virus in Ruili,a Town on the Border between China and Myanmar

正Dear Editor,Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an arbovirus in the family of Togaviridae, genus Alphavirus, is transmitted by the A.aegyptii or A. albopictus mosquito, and causes disease in humans characterized by fever, rash, and arthralgia (Silva and Dermody 2017; Suhrbier 2019). It was first reported in 1953 in Tanzania, and caused only a few outbreaks and sporadic cases in Africa and Asia in last century. However, in the epidemic in 2004, CHIKV acquired mutations that conferred enhanced transmission by the A. albopictus mosquito(Schuffenecker et al. 2006). Since then, it has successively caused outbreaks in Africa, the Indian Ocean, South East Asia, the South America, and Europe (Zeller et al. 2016).     

Development of a Novel Reverse Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Method for Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2

In conclusion, the novel visual RT-LAMP assay is a simple, rapid, and sensitive approach for detection of SARS-CoV-2, and it is ready for application in primary care and community hospitals or health care centers, and even patients' own houses in response to the current SARS-CoV-2 epidemic because the assay does not require sophisticated equipment and skilled personnel. Furthermore, it is also ready to be used in fields for screening samples from wild animals and environments to facilitate the identification of potential intermediate hosts that mediate the cross-species transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from bats to humans.