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Week 1:
Sunday
Check-in and registration
Welcome, orientation and content survey
Paperwork
Reception
Monday
Tour of HudsonAlpha
DNA basics and extraction
Biomolecules and enzymes
Tuesday
Identifying misconceptions in genetics
Addressing misconceptions in genetics
Cell structure and function
Evening event
Wednesday
Mitosis
Cell cycle regulation and Cancer
Talk from a HudsonAlpha researcher on Cancer
Field trip
Project and planning time
Thursday
DNA sequencing
Tour of HudsonAlpha sequencing laboratories
Central dogma
Genetic variation
Talk from a HudsonAlpha Associate Company
Friday
RNAi Technology
Meiosis
Karyotyping
Talk from a HudsonAlpha faculty member
Project and planning time
Saturday/Sunday
Participants are on their own to investigate Huntsville area attraction outings (i.e. U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville Botanical Gardens, Monte Sane State Park, etc.) or go home
Week 2:
Monday
Pedigree and cancer genetics laboratory
Human variation
Tour of HudsonAlpha Research Labs
Lesson/Unit planning
Evening event
Tuesday
Personalized medicine and complex genetics
Touching Triton online module
Personal genomics
Epigenetics
Biotechnology basics
Transformations
Lesson/Unit planning
Wednesday
Genetic engineering
Genetically modified organisms
Gene therapy
Project and planning time
Thursday
GTAC poster due
Data discussion
Genome Cache
Infectious disease
National science standards
New findings in Biotechnology
Friday
GTAC poster session
Program evaluations
Grants and professional development
Lunch and closing
Tub distribution