Educator Workshops in Biology from the Dolan DNA Learning Center

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... for High School Teachers

Inside Cancer

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~~
September 20, 2008 – Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
October 15, 2008 – NABT Professional Development Conference, Memphis, TN
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

Amgen Leadership Symposium
In Human and Genomic Biology

July 14-August 1, 2008, Cold Spring Harbor, New York

This 3-week workshop offers advanced training for high school teachers who want to extend their leadership in biotechnology and genetics education. Instruction takes place at the DNALC, and participants are housed on the nearby campus of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. Spend your days engaged in exciting laboratories, seminars, bioinformatics, and creative projects. In the evenings, mingle with research staff, Nobel laureates, and visiting scientists from around the world who are creating the gene age.

... for High School and College Educators

Genes to Cognition (G2C) Online

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 12-13, 2008 – Harlem DNA Lab, East Harlem, NY
September 18-19, 2008 – Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
September 26-27, 2008 – Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA
October 3-4, 2008 –, Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
October 31-November 1, 2008 – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
November 14-15, 2008 – Saint Louis Science Center, Saint Louis, MO

... for College Educators

Silencing Genomes

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.

~~April 21-25, Dolan DNA Learning Center, CSHL, Cold Spring Harbor, NY~~
~~June 2-6, 2008 - Rust College, Holly Springs, MS~~
August 4-8, 2008 - Fralin Biotechnology Center, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
August 18-22, 2008 - Biolink Texas (Austin Community College), Austin, TX