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The former journal published on behalf of IUBMB, Biochemical Education, has been reorganized and its title changed to reflect a broadened scope. The aim of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBEd) is to assist in the teaching of biochemistry and molecular biology at the college, graduate school and medical school level throughout the world. The main intended audience of BAMBEd is instructors at universities and colleges who teach biochemistry, molecular biology, and related fields such as microbiology and cell biology. Articles are welcomed 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. SUBMISSION OF ARTICLES: Submitted articles will be reviewed and turned around within six weeks. Manuscripts (three copies on 8.5x11 inch or A4 paper) containing new ideas concerning any aspect of interest to biochemistry and/or molecular biology educators, including laboratory class experiments, are welcomed and should be sent to the new editorial office at the following address: Professor Donald Voet ELECTRONIC SUBMISSION: While electronic submission procedures are only being tested at the moment, authors are encouraged to e-mail submissions as attachments in Microsoft Word or WordPerfect format to voet [at] sas.upenn.edu. Please attach color figures if you feel that they will add educational value to your material. |