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