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Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics Summer 2005 |
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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.
Meet this year's Teacher Interns
Figure above: Chris Huntington conducted his research in Dr. Brian Larkins lab on endoreduplication in maize endosperm. This is his second year in the program. Chris will start teaching at Tucson High this fall.
Victoria Milani: Presenting at the annual poster session the work she conducted in Judy Brown's laboratory. Victoria worked on parasitoid found in white flies. She teaches at Booth Fickett Middle 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 2006 will be accepted starting February 2006, deadline for application is April 29, 2006.
Check out previous years of the Teacher Internship in Plant Genomics: Summer 2003, Summer 2004.
Alicia Nicholas: Pipetting Queen of 2005. Alicia is setting up a PCR on cDNA to look at alternative splicing. Alicia conducted her 2005 research in Carolyn Napoli's lab, but participated in the internship the last two summers in Marc Orbach's lab. Alicia teaches at Santa Rita High School in Tucson.
"Don't distract someone pipetting reagents for a PCR reactions. This is a most finiky proceedure!" Alicia has her honors biology students conduct PCR every year. Last year they were looking at the Bt gene in Bt cotton; they sequenced it to confirm that the PCR product was Bt. Go Santa Rita!
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Center for Plant Genomics Outreach Program collaboration between Departments of Plant Sciences and Molecular and Cellular Biology The University of Arizona Nadja Anderson, Ph.D. |