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2004 Field Trip

 
Read the MIT Tech Talk articles: the 2003 Field Trip; the 2004 Field Trip
 
2004 Participating High Schools:
    • Arlington
    • Newburyport
    • Dedham
    • Lawrence
    • Holliston
    • Cambridge Rindge & Latin
    • Hudson
    • Stoneham
    • Somerville

 

LECTURES
 

 

Protein structure: How protein folds
Prof. Jon King, Professor of Biology

 
     

Developmental biology: using the zebrafish as a model for human development and disease

Prof. Hazel Sive , Professor of Biology, and
Member, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

 
     

Activities
         
 

Understanding how the structure of a protein explains its function: using PDB viewer to look at the structure of hemoglobin and porin

Prepared by Melissa Kosinski-Collins (postdoc, HHMI Education Program) and Shannon Flaugh (grad student member of King lab).

 
         
         
 

Embryology:

Using a dissecting microscope to observe wild type & mutant Zebrafish embryos at different stages of development

 
 
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