VPHY 3995 - 3995L
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Course-based Research Experience in Physiology
CURE
Course description
Course description
This unique course is focused on research skill development while learning about the chicken embryo as a model system. Students gain research experience while investigating the effects of pharmacological drugs or toxins on an embryonic development and/or heart rate. The course is designed to train students in the elements of research, including lab safety, ethics, reading primary literature, reproducibility, generating questions, forming hypotheses, designing experiments, collecting data, simple data analysis, and presenting results. This course includes lecture and lab components.
Check out the Student Projects.
What's a CURE?
What's a CURE?
CURE or Course-based undergraduate research experience is a course "in which students address a question or problem with unknown outcomes or solutions that are of interest to external stakeholders" (Dolan 2016).
Instructor - Dr. Ania Majewska
Instructor - Dr. Ania Majewska
Science and teaching are my two passions. I am motivated by figuring out something that no one has before and I strive to be an educator that can engage and spark curiosity in anyone regardless of their background knowledge or initial interest in the topic.
Broiler chicken
Broiler chicken
Chicken embryos serve as our study system to learn about heart development and to investigate the impact of chemicals on development and heart rate, and anything else you might be interested in.
The heart
The heart
Vertebrate heart development, whether in a chicken or human, is a fascinating phenomena. Did you know your heart consisted of two tubes!
Questions?
Questions?
Contact Dr. Majewska (majewska@uga.edu) to get more information about the course
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