Schedule Overview
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 (see sample schedule for a more detailed view)
- 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 HudsonAlpha Associate Company
- Project and planning time
- Friday
- RNAi technology
- Meiosis
- Karyotyping
- Talk from a HudsonAlpha faculty
- Project and planning time
- Saturday/Sunday
- Participants are on their own to investigate Huntsville area attraction outings (i.e. US Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville Botanical Gardens, Monte Sano State Park, etc.) or go home.
Week 2
- Monday
- Pedigree and cancer genetics laboratory
- Human variation
- Tour of HudsonAlpha Research Labs
- Project and planning time
- Evening event
- Tuesday
- Personalized medicine and complex genetics
- Touching Triton online module
- Personal genomics
- Epigenetics
- Biotechnology basics
- Transformations
- Project and planning time
- Wednesday
- Genetic engineering
- Genetically modified organisms
- Gene therapy
- Project and planning time
- Thursday
- GTAC poster due
- Data discussion
- Genome Cache
- Ingectious disease
- National Science Standards
- New findings in Biotechnology
- Friday
- GTAC poster session
- Program evaluations
- Grants and professional development
- Lunch and closing
- Tub distribution
- Genetic Technologies for Alabama Classrooms (GTAC) is made possible through support from the State of Alabama.
