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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.
An archive of previous years' lab
protocols is available.
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2009 Participating Schools:
- Arlington High School
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School
Concord-Carlisle High School
Hudson High School
Swampscott High School
Wellesley High School
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Lab Tours
- "When Alfalfa meet Rhizobium: the wonderful
world of symbiosis" Asha Jacob (Walker Lab)
- "Antibiotic-producing bacteria" Kazuhiko Kurosawa
and Dan MacEachran (Sinskey lab)
- "The study of neurological diseases in flies" Jan
Melom and Andrew Bosson (Littleton Lab)
- "Protein 3D structure determination by X-Ray
crystallography" Steven
Glynn, Robert Grant, and Jungsan Sohn
- "Electron microscopy" Tori Hatch (Horvitz lab)
- "Innate immunity in C. elegans" Dan Pagano and
Claire Richardson (Kim lab)
- "Environmental geomicrobiology" Lina Bird and
Alexandre Poulain (Newman Lab)
- "Cancer research in mice" Eliezer Calo (Lees
Lab)
- "Learning, Memory, and Nervous System Disorder
Research" Matthew
Dobbin (Tsai Lab)
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LECTURE
"Why we work with mutant mice, and what we get
out of it"
Dr. Arvind Govindarajan, Picower center for learning and memory |

Dr. Arvind Govindarajan |
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Hands-on Activities
Anatomy and development of Zebrafish, Planeria and C.
elegans — Introductory lecture by Dr.
Mandana Sassanfar, Instructor in Biology
Wild type zebrafish embryos were provided
by Olivier Paugois from the laboratory of Hazel Sive and mutant zebrafish
embryos were provided by Nelly Cruz from the Lees/Hopkins Laboratory;
the wild type and mutant C.elegans were provided by Na An from the
laboratory of Bob Horvitz; and the planaria were purchased from Carolina
Biologicals.
Instructors: Kirthi Reddy, Nelly
Cruz, Andrew Bosson, Diana Lu, Lauren Surface, Dina Faddah,
James Whittle, Sera Thornton, Rogier Gaiser, and Mandana
Sassanfar
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Nelly Cruz teaching

Graduate student Lina Bird
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Sheep eye dissection |
Sheep Ey Dissection
- Instructor: Michelle Machon, Department of Brain and
Cognitive Science
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Genomic DNA extraction from plants
- Instructor: Alexandra Naba
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Andrew Bosson in development lab
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Trying
out gloves in a lab
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Genomic DNA extraction from wheat germ
Instructor: Brenda Minesinger
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Lunch with Scientists
Professor Lisa Steiner
Professor Graham Walker
Dr. Arvind Govinddarajan
D. Brenda Minesinger
Dr. Alexandra Naba
Dr. Asha Jacob
Dr. Alexandre Poulain
Dr Kirthi Reddy
Graduate students: Dan Pagano, Lina Bird, Jan Melom, Andrew Bosson,
Lauren Surface, Sera Thornton |

Lunch with Scientists |
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