Schedule Overview
Week 1
- Sunday
- Check-in and registration
- Welcome and orientation
- Paperwork
- Reception
- Monday
- Tour of HudsonAlpha
- Using data to inform teaching and programming
- DNA basics and extraction
- Biomolecules and enzymes
- Tuesday (see sample schedule for a more detailed view)
- Identifying misconceptions in genetics
- Addressing misconceptions in genetics
- Cell structure and function
- Field trip
- Evening event
- Wednesday
- Mitosis
- Cell cycle regulation and Cancer
- Talk from a HudsonAlpha researcher on Cancer
- Tour of HudsonAlpha Associate Company
- Lesson/Unit planning
- Thursday
- DNA sequencing
- Tour of HudsonAlpha sequencing laboratories
- Central dogma
- Genetic variation
- Tour of HudsonAlpha Associate Company
- Lesson/Unit planning
- Evening outing
- Friday
- Meiosis
- Karyotyping
- Talk from a HudsonAlpha faculty
- Pedigree and cancer genetics laboratory activity
- Lesson/Unit planning
- Evening outing
- Saturday/Sunday
- Huntsville area attraction outings (i.e. US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville Botanical Gardens, Monte Sano State Park, etc.)
- Monday
- Mendelian genetics
- Human variation
- Tour of HudsonAlpha Associate Company
- Talk from HudsonAlpha researcher
- Lesson/Unit planning
- Evening event
- Tuesday
- Personalized medicine
- Personal genomics
- Epigenetics
- RNAi technology
- Lesson/Unit planning
- Wednesday
- Genetically modified organisms
- Gene therapy
- Tour of HudsonAlpha Associate Company
- Transformation
- Group presentations
- Thursday
- Level 1 Alabama Science in Motion Training
- Evening dinner with Dr. Rick Myers
- Friday
- Infectious disease
- Genetics content knowledge data
- Talk from HudsonAlpha researcher
- Individual presentations
- Closing
Week 2
- Genetic Technologies for Alabama Classrooms (GTAC) is made possible in part through the generous support of the Boeing Company Charitable Trust.
