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APPLICATION QUICK LINKS: Inside Cancer Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online |
   Brochures are saved in PDF format. Download Adobe Reader here. ... for High School Teachers NYC Teacher Professional Development at Harlem DNA Lab This program will enable New York City teachers to deliver hands-on, inquiry-based experiments in genetics and biotechnology. With funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 8th through 12th grade teachers are trained to implement lab activities to complement the NYC Scope and Sequence, Life Science, Living Environment, and AP Biology curricula. Visit the Harlem DNA Lab site for more information: http://www.dnalc.org/harlemdnalab/ 
This 1-day workshop introduces an innovative Internet site on cancer biology. Participants are guided through authoritative and engaging multimedia about how knowledge of the cancer cell is changing the battle against cancer. Using Teacher Center, they then build lesson plans and custom multimedia presentations, focusing on syllabus-centered instruction. April 11, 2008 - Biolink Southwest Regional Meeting, Albuquerque, NM October 18, 2008 – Midland College, Midland, TX November 2, 2008 – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA November 7, 2008 – Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA November 13, 2008 – Saint Louis Science Center, Saint Louis, MO January 23, 2009 – Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL March 28, 2009 – Harlem DNA Lab, East Harlem, NY ... for High School and College Educators
These 1.5-day workshops introduce a unique Internet site incorporating up-to-date neuroscience research, multimedia items, and interactive experiments. From molecular signals to neural circuits to anatomical structures of the brain, participants explore thinking and disorders of thinking at different levels of complexity. The site offers unique learning aids that allow students to track their paths through the site and to build concept maps using information they have encountered. September 18-19, 2008 – Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO November 14-15, 2008 – Saint Louis Science Center, Saint Louis, MO December 12-13, 2008 – Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA March 6-7, 2009 – Harlem DNA Lab, East Harlem, NY ... for College Educators
This 5-day workshop on RNA interference (RNAi) brings college educators up-to-the-minute with this revolutionary discovery. In labs and computer work, participants learn all the steps needed to go from genomic sequence information to induce RNAi to silence individual genes in the roundworm C. elegans. This workshop provides great individual labs and templates for independent student projects. Dates and locations to be announced! |
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