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Genes We Share
Museum Exhibition Long Island Discovery Cell Signals DNA: The Secret of Life  The Dolan DNA Learning Center is open to the public Monday-Friday, 10 am-4 pm Closed on Saturday and Sunday (with the exception of the following Saturdays: May 10, 2008: open 12:00 pm–4:00 pm June 14, 2008: open 12:00 pm–4:00 pm) Please call for holiday hours |
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DNALC has displayed exhibitions since its inception, beginning with
the Smithsonian Institution's The Search for Life, which
ran from 1988 until 1992. Our first major in-house exhibition, Story
of a Gene (1995-2001), included a wall to ceiling mural of the
interior of a cell and was a favorite stop for visiting middle-school
classes. We have also developed smaller exhibitions about DNA fingerprinting,
the Nobel Prize and the Lasker Award, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's
Barbara McClintock. The BioMedia Addition, completed in 2001,
nearly doubled gallery size, just enough to mount our second major
in-house exhibition, The Genes We Share. The 104-seat Joan & Arthur M. Spiro Auditorium (a multimedia facility) contains audio and visual equipment for virtually any type of presentation. The first presentation developed for the auditorium, Long Island Discovery, opened in 1993 and continues to be shown today. Visiting students can also see Cell Signals, a 3-D animation of a cells' signaling pathway, and DNA:The Secret of Life about the discovery of the structure of DNA. The Genes We Share Discover The Genes We Share! The human genome is the vast instruction manual for our bodies, the code that makes us both similar and different, the record of our shared ancestry, and a source of information that could foreshadow a person's future health. The Genes We Share opened at the DNALC on September 18, 2002, and is recommended for visitors aged 10 and older. Long Island Discovery Created by Cablevision, Long Island Discovery is a multimedia presentation on the history of Long Island shown in the DNALC auditorium. It is available to the general public and for group reservation, and is especially appropriate for fourth grade school groups studying local history. There is no charge to view Long Island Discovery. Cell Signals Cell Signals debuted in fall 2004 in the DNALC auditorium. The 3-D animation was originally developed for inclusion in the DNALC Internet site, Inside Cancer. The animation was refit and scripted for viewing by DNALC visiting students. The wide-screen presentation opens on live action film of children playing outdoors. When one of the children cuts his knee, the film zooms in to the cellular level, transitions to animation, and takes the viewer through the resulting cellular response. Cell Signals was produced with Interactive Knowledge, Inc. DNA: The Secret of Life This 32-minute presentation combines stunning animations and visual effects to chronicle the story of James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the DNA structure. Their 1953 discovery changed biology and has far-reaching impacts and implications for science research and human health and genetics. Call the DNALC at (516) 367-5170 for availability of these presentations. |
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