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