Frontier progress enlightens creative thinking——seminars in microbiology

Abstract:

Microbiology is a compulsory course for biology majors in science base classes. This course plays an active and important role in helping biology majors to build a solid theoretical foundation and broaden their horizons of scientific research. How to strike a balance between foundation and frontier, theory and practice, teaching and research, has posed a challenge to both the content and the form of the course. In order to promote the students' understanding of microbiology and provide the students with academic information in this field, 8 hours of seminars are held every semester. In these seminars, both teachers of this department and experts from other institutes and universities are invited to discuss various topics which are included in the course syllabus. The seminars function as a platform to orient the sophomores in this field of research, stimulate their interest in academic research and promote their creative thinking. Through face-to-face communications in the seminars, the students can not only acquire extracurricular knowledge and get informed of the hotspots in microbiological research, but also learn from the personal research experiences of the experts from different institutes and universities.