UCSC Bio 20L Pilot Lab: this team of scientist/engineer educators designed and taught an inquiry lab activity through ISEE’s Professional Development Program

L-R: Gabriel Mednick, Veronica Urabe, Arina Favilla

Venue: UCSC, BIO 20L Pilot Lab

Team Members: 

Gabriel Mednick (Design Team Lead): Postdoc, Chemistry, UC Santa Cruz

Arina Favilla: Graduate Student, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UC Santa Cruz

Tyler DeWitt: Graduate Student, MCD Biology, UC Santa Cruz 

Veronica Urabe: Graduate Student, MCD Biology, UC Santa Cruz 

Audience: 20 undergraduates

Activity Name: PCR lab

Learning Goals: Using principles of how demands placed on an organism influence genetic diversity to explain how different genes function to allow adaptations for a specific niche, and explaining results based on multiple lines of evidence.

Link to Arina Favilla's Activity Summary.

Funding for this team was provided by: HHMI, GAANN, National Science Foundation (#1339067)