Weselake Teaching Innovations in Lipid Science

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4200-1280-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Featuring practical strategies and exciting experiments, Teaching Innovations in Lipid Science addresses lipid education at a range of levels from the novice to the graduate student and teacher. Peer-reviewed contributions from internationally known specialists, describe several methods and approaches designed to create new lipid courses, modify existing courses, and serve as a basis for pursuing novel avenues of instruction. Divided into two sections, the first focuses on teaching strategies and outlines some of the barriers that lipid science specialists face when transmitting accurate information. It emphasizes the development and implementation of creative programs that foster interest in lipid science, and presents novel problem-solving approaches. It discusses strategies for involving and evaluating independent study students and explains the successful use of sample cards to teach oilseed and cereal processing. This section also provides generalized accounts of biotechnology and crop improvement and isoprenoid biochemistry, including improvement of oilseed crops and tips on explaining DNA science and crop biotechnology. The second section begins with simple demonstrations on the physical properties of lipids suitable for middle- and high school students. It follows with more complex experiments on analyzing lipids in food oils, plasma, and milk utilizing thin layer chromatography, gas chromatography, and high performance liquid chromatography. Contributions include information on convenient enzyme test kits with exercises that can translate to a lab course beginning with chromatographic methods for lipid analysis. The final chapter presents theory and experiments for studying lipid metabolism in the plastid by describing preparation methods, studying metabolite uptake, and pathway analysis.

Zielgruppe

Professors who teach food lipids or lipid chemistry courses; food chemists, food engineers, and nutritional scientists; agricultural engineers; and school teachers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weselake, Randall J.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie Polymerchemie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Lipidologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Strategies for Teaching Lipid Science to the Public, Students, and Teachers
Educating the Public about Lipids, A.H.C. Huang and R.J. Weselake
Fats, Genes and Food Using Lipids as a Tool in University and High School Science Education and Public Outreach, D.J. Murphy
Mentorships and Related Programs Provide Mechanisms for Involving Students in the Science of Fats and Oils, N. Lee and J.K. Daun
Teaching Lipid Chemistry through Creative Problem Solving, K.M. Schaich
Mentoring Independent Study Students in Lipid Science, E.C. Kazala, C.L. Snyder, T. Furukawa-Stoffer, and R.J. Weselake
Sample Cards for Teaching Processing of Oilseeds and Cereals, L.A. Johnson, J. Maiers, and D. Jarboe
Biotechnology and Crop Improvement in Agriculture, D. Hildebrand
Understanding Isoprenoid Biochemistry
Demonstrations and Experiments in Lipid Science
What’s in a Potato Chip?, R.G. Ackman, A. Timmins, and S. Budge
Oils and Fats Simple Demonstrations of Properties and Uses, T.A. McKeon
Teaching Relationships between the Composition of Lipids and Nutritional Quality, R. Przybylski
High Temperature Gas Liquid Chromatographic Profiling of Plasma Lipids: A Student Exercise, A. Kuksis
Analysis of Total Milk Fat, C. Cruz-Hernandez and J.K.G. Kramer
The Use of Enzyme Test Kits for Teaching Lipid Chemistry, R.A. Moreau
Plastids as a Model System in Teaching Plant Lipid Metabolism, S.A. Sparace  and K.F. Kleppinger-Sparace