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Marine Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Summer Workshop Schedule Overview
WEEK 1 Begin Biotechnology and Wet Lab / Intro to Bioinformatics / Intro to PBL Teaching
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00 AM Overview & intros & evaluations Collect mussels (8 am = 0 tide) Finish DNA extractions Restriction digestion PPT & ITS digest set up Set up Glu PCRs
10:00 AM Pretest     ITS digest paper exercise Glu primer paper exercise
  Break Break Break Break Break
11:00 AM Tracking mussels presentation, part I Mussel dissection review & dissect mussels Load DNA gel ITS digest on website and virtual gel Glu primer computer exercise
  Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:00 PM Tracking mussels presentation, part II DNA extraction PPT Quantifying DNA PPT & analyze DNA gel Load ITS gels Load Glu gels
2:00 PM General lab skills & lab conduct discussion Gel electrophoresis PPT & gel loading exercise Quantify DNA and make working stock Webquest and project - based learning DNA seq. viewing & editing with Chromos
3:00 PM Practice lab skills pipetting exercise       Webquest and PBL
  Break Break Break Break Break
4:00 PM Mussel dissection PPT   PCR PPT & Set up ITS PCR Webquest and PBL Webquest and PBL
4:30 PM Review today and plan tomorrow Review today and plan tomorrow Review today and plan tomorrow Review today and plan tomorrow View Glu gels
View ITS gels Review today and plan Monday
5:00 PM End End End End End
KEY: Out in the Field Biotechnology Bioinformatics Wet Lab Teaching & Learning
Week 2 Continue DNA Biotechnology / Begin Bioinformatics / Write Lesson Plans
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00 AM Set up CO3 PCRs Load aliquot on gel Align sequences w/ Clustal Compare nucleotide & protein trees Start working with own sequences
10:00 AM Mitochondria vs. nucleus PPT & exercise     View 3D proteins - Cn3D  
  Break Break Break Break Break
11:00 AM Paper DNA priming exercise Prep for commercial DNA sequencing discussion & DNA sequencing PPT Creating phylogenetic trees w/ Drawtree High-end bioinformatics continue
  Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch
1:00 PM Load CO3 PCR gels View and analyze gel Translation & Open Reading Frames-ORF finder Intro to Japanese lesson study continue
2:00 PM Are whales hippos? exercise Genbank and Blast searches Align Proteins w/ Clustalx Use of camcorders  
3:00 PM Break Break Break Break Break
  Lesson planning on related thematic topics Lesson planning on related thematic topics Lesson planning on related thematic topics REFLECTION TIME Scope and sequence for lessons
4:00 PM Review today and plan tomorrow   Use of digital cameras Using Skype for Web conferencing
4:30 PM View CO3 gels Review today and plan tomorrow Review today and plan tomorrow Review today and plan tomorrow Review today and plan week 3
5:00 PM End End End End End
Special Evening Dinner Event
KEY: Out in the Field Biotechnology Bioinformatics Wet Lab Teaching & Learning
Technology Topics
Week 3 Teachers Implement Group Lesson Plans with Students
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9:00 AM Lesson Group 1: Collecting Mussels Lesson Group 2: Dissection in Wet Lab Lesson Group 3: Gel electrophoresis Field Trip to Biotechnology Company for everyone Lesson Group 4: Invasive Marine Species
10:00 AM  
 
11:00 AM  
  Lunch Lunch Lunch   Lunch
1:00 PM Hands-on Learning Activity Hands-on Learning Activities Hands-on Learning Activities   Hands-on Learning Activities
2:00 PM          
3:00 PM          
  Break Break Break   Break
4:00 PM          
4:30 PM  
5:00 PM End End End End End
KEY: Out in the Field Student's Wet Lab Student's Activity
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