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High school science teachers who have attended a past MIT summer workshop are invited to bring their Honors and AP Biology classes to the Biology Department for a day of lectures and hands-on activities.

Students attend a morning lecture given by an MIT professor, then break up into small groups for hands-on activities. After a lunch break (pizza and drinks provided) the students regroup for another lecture or a laboratory visit.

The number of students is limited to 80 and classes are accommodated on first-come basis.

2008 Field Trip (below)

2007 Field Trip

2006 Field Trip
MIT Tech Talk focuses on new Protein Viewer unveiled to students of the Field Trip.

2005 Field Trip
Read the 2005 MIT Tech Talk article

2004 Field Trip

2003 FIELD TRIP
Read the 2003 MIT Tech Talk article

2007 participants - photo
Somerville High School teacher Karen Woods with her freshman biology class.

2008 Participating Schools:

Arlington High School
Cambridge Rindge and Latin; Pingree School; Revere High School; Somerville High School; Stoneham High School

Graduate student Eliezer Calo explains the use of mice in the study of cancer to a group of AP biology students from Stoneham High School.

Lab Tours

The wonders of yeast, Dr. Eric Spear, Kaiser lab, Dept. of Biology
Bacteria and bacteriophages, Dr. Mandana Sassanfar, Dept. of Biology
Protein X-Ray crystallography, James Whittle and Robert Grant, Dept. of Biology
The study of Cancer in mice, Eliezer Calo, Lees lab, Center for Cancer Research
Electron microscopy of C. elegans, Tori Hatch, Horvitz lab, Dept of Biology
Modeling Neurological diseases in the fruit fly, Dr. Joost Schulte and Dr. Katharine Sepp, Littleton lab, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Confocal and Electron microscopy for biology , Nicki Watson and Erika Batchelder, The Keck imaging facility, Whitehead Institute
Antibiotic producing bacteria: isolation and characterization, Dr. Kazuhiko Kurosawa and Charles Budde, Sinskey, Dept. of Biology

Antibody-producing bacteria.

Hands-on Activities

Anatomy and development of Zebrafish, Planeria and C. elegans — Introductory lecture by Dr. Mandana Sassanfar, Instructor in Biology

The zebrafish were provided by Sarah Farrington from the laboratory of Nancy Hopkins; the C.elegans were provided by Na An from the laboratory of Bob Horvitz; and the planeria were purchased from Carolina Biologicals.

Instructors: Kirthi Reddy, Nelly Cruz, Dan Pagano, Dilja Krueger, Leah Okumura, Morgan Copland, Albert Almada, Jan Melom, and Mandana Sassanfar.

Protein structure bioinformatics lab using StarBiochem

Instructors: Emiko Barre, Kate Drahos, Leslie Mebane, and Prof. Charles Shubert.