Each day there will be 2-3 prepared lectures as well as the computational and wet-lab acitvities that students are expected to record in their notebooks. While we expect students to take notes during lectures, we realize that they may want to check
their accuracy and completeness, so when we have prepared slides we will post them here.
Note that a list of Vocabulary Items is given here, for those things I was asked to define Vocabulary Page
June 14 th
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Getting familiar with each other and the classrooms. Talking about sample collection and documentation.
June 15 th
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Ranger Cooke presented a lot of material as we walked - students took notes when not collecting samples.
June 16 th
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The proper use of pipettes and how to determine if they are accurately calibrated was discussed.
June 20 th
- Mrs Anderson discussed the discovery of the structure of DNA, and how it is replicated. DNA structure and Replication
- Dr. Weller talked about breaking open plant cells and how to selectively extract DNA. She also went over the Skills exercise, and the samples we collected since we will use them tomorrow. Extracting DNA, Skills, Samples
- Mrs Smith taled about the Scientific Method and Research Research
Comments See the lab protocols page for the Skills Exercise
June 21 st
- Shatavia Morrison gave an overview of the sample prep before we began lab work SM presentation
- Chris Overall gave in Intriduction to Bioinformatics lecture CO presentation
- Mrs Smith taled about principles of making measurements Measurement Theory
Comments - most of this day was spent doing sample preparation
June 22 nd
Comments - most of this day was spent doing sample preparation
June 23 rd
Comments - most of this days was spent preparing gels and electrophoresing samples
June 27 th
- Mrs Smith introduced the PCR method PCR
- Dr. Weller had some additional information about the PCR PCR Basics
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June 28 th
- Chris Overall explained sequence alignment, the BLAST algorithm and then directed a computational lab using it Sequence Alignment
- Dr. Weller talked about genetics and molecular markersMolecular Markers
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June 29 th
- Dr Weller discussed ethics,emphasizing professional ethics for scientists Bioethics
- Ms. Smith went over the Spectrophotometer again, as a reminder for the lab
- Dr. Weller described Beer's Law and then showed how to use Excel to tranform the Transmittance to Absorbance and then to graph the results.
Beer's Law and Excel
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