How can we provide fertile ground for students to simultaneously explore a breadth of foundational knowledge, develop cross-disciplinary problem-solving skills, gain resiliency, and learn to work as a member of a team? One way is to integrate original research in the context of an undergraduate biochemistry course. In this Community Page, we discuss the development and execution of an interdisciplinary and cross-departmental undergraduate biochemistry laboratory course. We present a template for how a similar course can be replicated at other institutions and provide pedagogical and research results from a sample module in which we challenged our students to study the binding interface between 2 important biosynthetic proteins. Finally, we address the community and invite others to join us in making a larger impact on undergraduate education and the field of biochemistry by coordinating efforts to integrate research and teaching across campuses.

我们如何为学生提供一块肥沃的土地，以同时探索基础知识的广度，发展跨学科的解决问题的能力，获得应变能力以及学习作为团队成员的工作？一种方法是在本科生化学课程中整合原始研究。在此社区页面中，我们讨论了跨学科和跨部门的本科生化学实验室课程的开发和实施。我们提供了一个模板，说明如何在其他机构复制类似的课程，并提供了一个样本模块的教学和研究结果，我们在其中挑战我们的学生研究2种重要生物合成蛋白之间的结合界面。最后，