This workshop is part of the Michigan Community College Biologists Annual Conference. Workshop participants will carry out an entry-level experiment on plant identification using the rbcL barcode—from rapid DNA extraction to PCR and electrophoresis, sequencing library preparation, nanopore sequencing, read quality control and assembly, BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, and tree building. Bring a fresh leaf from a plant or two that you would like to barcode. The workshop will combine three elements that form one of the most widely-used infrastructures to support independent, distributed, and ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has likely confounded your life as a teacher and made it difficult or impossible to offer lab experiences to your students. The DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is offering exciting opportunities for your students to participate in authentic experiments using DNA sequencing—in spite of ...
With funding from the National Institutes of Health, the DNA Learning Center is launching a pilot project, US Ants, to show the feasibility of citizen scientists using DNA barcodes to identify and map the ant species of the United States. Just as a universal product code (UPC) identifies each commercial ...
DNA barcoding is a popular technique for undergraduate research projects. In this webinar, Dr. Linnea Fletcher will describe how this technique can be adapted for use in biotechnology education programs by incorporating principles of working in a regulated environment such as GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices). The Austin Community College (ACC) Biotechnology program introduces students to the 5 P’s of GMP [people, premises, processes, products and procedures (paperwork)] while they're using DNA barcoding to identify samples. Combining GMPs with DNA barcoding makes learning cGMPs more ...
DNA Barcoding and Metabarcoding for CURES Workshops Funded by the NSF Improving Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center (DNALC), in collaboration with New York City College of Technology (City Tech), Bowie State University (BSU), and James Madison University (JMU), is offering two five-day workshops ...
