UA Plant Genomics Labs

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Summer Schedule of weekly brown bag lunch meeting

Poster Session------ July 28, 2004

Arabidopsis and Plant Genome Resources

Laboratory Activities
Activities designed by interns to take back to the classroom

BIOTECH Home
Gateway to the BIOTECH Project

PREP Handbook with activities using Arabidopsis thaliana

The University of Arizona

Department of Plant Sciences

Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Undergraduate Biology Research Program

The Biology Project

Biology Learning Center

Science Education Connection

Other sites in Arizona

Arizona State University

Northern Arizona University

Arizona Department of Education

Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics Summer 2004

The Teacher Internships in Plant Genomics Program is designed to provide pre-service and in-service biology teachers with university-based lab experience in plant genomics at the University of Arizona. Through this program, Teacher Interns are placed in UA plant genomics labs for an eight-week summer research internship. The interns are paired with an experienced graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, or faculty member who serves as the intern’s mentor. During the internship, Teacher Interns are expected to work 40 hours per week for 8 weeks on a component of their mentor’s research. The Teacher Interns also meet once a week to discuss their research and to develop relevant teaching materials (schedule). During the internship, the Teacher Interns are expected to produce a poster, which is presented at a poster session at the end of July, summarizing the project on which they are working.

Figure above: Margaret Wilch discussing her research at the annual poster session. Margaret conducted research in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Vierling on heat shock proteins in Arabidopsis. Margaret teaches at Tucson Magnet High School in Tucson AZ.

 

Alicia Nicholas preparing protein samples. Alicia is participating as an intern in Dr. Marc Orbach's lab this summer. Alicia teaches at Santa Rita High School in Tucson AZ.

The objectives for the Teacher Internships in Plant Genomics program are to:

• provide Teacher Interns with opportunities to understand the nature of science and gain first-hand experience in scientific inquiry and to better understand and share their ideas about genetics, genomics, and plant biology.
• provide Teacher Interns with opportunities to develop and share teaching materials related to genetics, genomics, and plant biology.
• provide Teacher Interns with material and equipment support relevant to the development of their new genetics, genomics and plant biology lessons.
• provide scientist mentors with opportunities to learn about communicating and sharing their work with science teachers, pre-college students, and the general public.
• provide scientist mentors with opportunities to learn how to present content, concepts, and methodologies to a non-scientist audience.
• increase accessibility of a diverse group of pre-service and in-service teachers to university-based resources.
• provide high school students with information about opportunities and research at the university.

Applying to Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics --Applications for summer 2005 will be accepted starting January 2005, deadline for application is March 14, 2005.

See when the fun began...Summer 2003 Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics.