Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education

The aim of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education is to assist in the teaching of biochemistry and molecular biology at the college, graduate school and medical school level throughout the world.
The Editors welcome articles on teaching techniques and practice in all areas related to these fields, and on methods of assessment of the effectiveness of new educational approaches. Articles are also encouraged on research in biochemistry and molecular biology education. Short reviews will be accepted or solicited from time to time on key areas of biochemical knowledge from workers active in the field. Such reviews are intended to provide background material for the preparation of lectures. Articles providing details of simple, tried and tested, laboratory experiments are especially encouraged. Those interested in secondary school outreach may submit papers aimed at increasing awareness of college and university faculty toward possibilities for contributing to the ongoing education of secondary school teachers.

Each issue will contain reviews of books and other teaching aids such as websites, videotapes, transparency/slide sets and computer software. Many of the pages will contain full-color figures. There is also a companion website that will contain two levels of access: Full-text access is available to all materials for subscribers and access to the Table of Contents and Abstracts is available for all visitors. In addition, a fully accessible section of the website is being developed that will be updated frequently and will contain reviewed multimedia materials such as computer graphics-based tutorials on macromolecular structure and Java- and Shockwave-based tutorials on most aspects of biochemistry and molecular biology. We hope that this new site for instructional tools will become a general repository for multimedia materials valuable to biochemical educators.