促进拔尖创新人才培养的合成生物学课程体系建设与实践

Exploration and practice of synthetic biology curricular system construction to promote the cultivation of top-notch innovative talents

高校“双一流”建设最主要的核心竞争力就是人才培养,而建设高质量课程体系是实现人才培养理念和提高人才培养质量的重要依托。以拔尖创新人才培养为目标,中国科学技术大学的合成生物学课程教学,通过十几年的教学探索与实践,形成了“合成生物学课程-第二课堂-竞赛”一体化的创新人才培养体系,“全院办校,所系结合”特色的高质量教学团队、紧跟学科领域前沿的教学内容,包括虚拟仿真实验及微课视频教学在内的线上线下混合式教学方式、“编码生命”协会的课堂外实操技能训练及跨学科交流,以及以国际遗传工程机器竞赛(iGEM)为代表的高水平交叉学科生物学竞赛的科研实战训练,培养了本科生的自主学习能力、科研创新能力及团队协作能力,在国际遗传工程机器竞赛、国际定向进化大赛、合成生物学竞赛等学科竞赛中获得优异的成绩,实现全程育人、全方位育人。

The talent cultivation is the main core competitiveness of the“Double First-Class”construction in universities,and the construction of a high-quality curriculum system is an important support for improving the quality of talent cultivation.With the goal of cultivating top-notch innovative talents,an integrated innovative talent cultivation model of“synthetic biology course-the second classroom-competition”has been formed through more than ten years of teaching exploration and practice in our university.This curricular system consists of a high-quality teaching team from USTC and the Chinese Academy of Sciences,course content of the hot topics and lately development of synthetic biology,online and offline mixed teaching mode including virtual simulate experiment and micro lessons,practical skills training and cross-specialty cooperation in“encoding life”association,and the research training of high-level biology competitions represented by the international genetically engineered machine(iGEM)competition.All these together dramatically improved undergraduate students’ability of self-learning,scientific research innovation,and team collaboration.Up to now,excellent results have been achieved in the international and domestic competitions such as iGEM,the International Directional Evolution Competition,and the Synthetic Biology Competition,continuously advancing towards the goal of cultivating top-notch innovative students with ideals,responsibilities,and excellence in character and learning.