This schedule will change throughout workshop.
Sunday 6-July Location Materials
1:00 PM Orientation, introduction, and group photo (SB) comp lab
1:30 PM Overview of research project (SB) comp lab Research Papers
2:30 PM Break  
2:45 PM General lab skills & lab conduct discussion (TAs) comp lab
3:15 PM Practice lab skills & pipetting exercises (TAs) wet lab
4:30 PM Field Safety and Mussel Collection (SB) wet lab
5:00 PM End  
5:00 PM XL: Know your Organism PPT, Invasive Species PPT (SB)
5:00 PM Help! (TAs)
Homework Take the May Sessions Satisfaction Survey  
Monday 7-July Location Materials
9:00 AM Visit jetty - discuss rocky intertidial (0.44 low tide ~9:15 am)(TAs) Moss Landing
10:00 AM Collect mussels at MLML dock, view other invasives (TAs) Moss Landing
11:00 AM Drive back to CSUMB & Break  
11:30 AM Mussel Dissection PPT (SB) wet lab
12:00 PM Lunch  
1:00 PM Dissection & start tissue digestion FIRST (TAs) wet lab
2:30 PM DNA Extraction PPT (SB) wet lab Qiagen Protocol
3:00 PM May 31st homework discussion (HK) comp lab
4:00 PM Transferring and sharing files (HK) comp lab
4:45 PM Review today and plan tomorrow wet lab
5:00 PM End  
5:00 PM XL: Meet the Molecules (SB) and Help! (TAs)
5:30 PM OPTION: Urban River Restoration Seminar  — Jason Maas-Baldwin Chapman E127
Homework Tech & pedagogy survey (RB hardcopy)
Tuesday 8-July Location Materials
9:00 AM Complete DNA extractions (TAs) wet lab
10:30 AM Break  
10:45 AM Gell Electrophoresis PPT, practice gel loading wet lab
11:15 AM DNA Quantifying PPT (SB) wet lab
11:30 AM Quantify DNA (TAs)  
12:00 PM Lunch  
1:00 PM PCR PPT (SB) wet lab
1:30 PM Set up ITS, CO3, & Glu PCRs (TAs) wet lab
3:00 PM Break  
3:15 PM Paper PCR activity (HK) comp lab
3:45 PM Mussel Barcoding — "Which doesn't belong?" (HK)  
4:15 PM   comp lab
4:45 PM Review today and plan tomorrow comp lab
5:00 PM End   
5:00 PM XL: Glu primer paper exercise (SB)
5:00 PM Help! (TAs)
Wednesday 9-July Location Materials
9:00 AM ITS Restriction Digest PPT (SB) wet lab
9:30 AM ITS Restriction Digest (TAs) wet lab
10:00 AM Gel electrophoresis PPT & gel loading exercise (SB) wet lab
11:00 AM Break  
11:15 AM Load digested ITS, CO3 and Glu PCR products on gels (TAs) wet lab
12:30 PM Lunch  
1:30 PM Overall project flow chart & expected results; Q&A session (SB) comp lab
3:00 PM Break  
3:15 PM View gels and discuss results (SB) comp lab
4:00 PM CO3 Purification PPT (SB) comp lab
4:30 PM Review today and plan tomorrow comp lab
5:00 PM End   
5:00 PM     XL: Restriction Digest of ITS (SB)
5:00 PM Help! And redo of PCRs as needed by TAs or participants (TAs)
Thursday 10-July Location Materials
9:00 AM DNA sequencing PPT & commercial prep (SB) comp lab
9:30 AM Reading sequence traces & converting to text - Chromas (HK) comp lab
10:45 AM Break   
11:00 AM Searching sequences against NCBI database - Blast (HK) comp lab
12:00 AM Lunch   
1:00 PM Steps to validating RAW DNA sequences (HK/TAs) comp lab
3:00 PM Break  
3:15 PM     Reading frame review and COIII examples (HK) comp lab
4:45 PM Review today and plan tomorrow comp lab
5:00 PM End  
5:00 PM     XL: The Theory Behind the Searches (HK)
5:00 PM Help! (TAs)
Friday 11-July Location Materials
9:00 AM STEM careers (RB) comp lab
10:30 AM Break  
10:45 AM Innovations in teaching (RB) comp lab
12:00 PM Lunch  
1:00 PM Teachnology techniques for teachers (SM) comp lab
2:45 PM Break  
3:00 PM cont'd comp lab
4:45 PM Review today and plan tomorrow comp lab
5:00 PM End  
EVAL Take the Satisfaction Survey (7/6-7/11).
Saturday 12-July Location Materials
9:00 AM Elkhorn Slough hike, tracking activity & visitor's center (DF & KP) ESNERR
1:00 PM Beach COMBER walk (DF) ML beach
Sunday 13-July Location Materials
9:00 AM Invertebrate Community in the harbor (SEB) ML Harbor
1:00 PM Research talks and BBQ (TAs, SB, HK) MLML
Monday 14-July:  Teachers Location Materials
9:00 AM Evaluation of weekend activites using SurveyMonkey laptops e236
9:30 AM Handling your own DNA sequence data (HK, SB, TAs) laptops e236
10:45 AM Break  
11:00 AM cont'd laptops e236
12:00 PM Lunch  
1:00 PM Aligning own sequences (HK) laptops e236
2:45 PM Break  
3:00 PM cont'd laptops e236
5:00 PM End  
Tuesday 15-July: Teachers Location Materials
9:00 AM    Biotechnology & bioinformatics websites (RB) laptops e236
10:00 AM cont'd laptops e236
10:45 AM Break  
11:00 AM cont'd laptops e236
12:00 PM Lunch  
1:00 PM Aligning own sequences (HK) laptops e236
2:45 PM Break  
3:00 PM cont'd laptops e236
5:00 PM End  
Wednesday 16-July:  Teachers Location Materials
9:00 AM Lesson planning (AY option) (RB) laptops e236
10:45 AM Break  
11:00 AM 3D protein structures - cN3D (HK) laptops e236
12:00 PM Lunch  
1:00 PM NEB Cutter (HK) laptops e236
2:45 PM Break  
3:00 PM Building tree with own sequences (HK, SB) laptops e236
5:00 PM End  
Thursday 17-July:  Teachers Location Materials
9:00 AM Field Trip Roche Roche BioSciences Palo Alto Map
12:00 PM Lunch   Roche Field Trip Agenda
5:00 PM End   Roche BioSciences Website
Friday 18-July:  Teachers Location Materials
9:00 AM Tree analysis session (SB) laptops e236
10:00 AM cont'd laptops e236
10:45 AM Break  
11:00 AM cont'd laptops e236
12:00 PM Lunch  
1:00 PM Lesson planning (RB) laptops e236
2:45 PM Break  
3:00 PM cont'd & email final plan to RB laptops e236
5:00 PM End  
Homework (or during the day) Tech & pedagogy survey & Satisfaction Survey (7/12 - 7/18)
Saturday 19-July:  Teachers Location Materials
9:00 AM Content survey (post-test) (HC) laptops e236
10:00 AM