Detecting COVID using Rapid Antibody Tests and PCR
Saturday November 13
10am – 2pm @ the new South Burlington Public Library
180 Market Street | South Burlington, VT 05403
Teachers will receive a certificate of participation that can be used for professional development from the biotechnology company BioRad
Come learn and perform rapid antibody, antigen and PCR tests to detect COVID 19. Better understand the biology of SARS-CoV-2 by participating in this hands-on workshop focusing on the detection of COVID using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and agarose gel electrophoresis to analysis PCR samples.
Antibody Detection
10am – 11:30am
In this assay you will use real antibodies to determine whether simulated patients are or were infected with SARS-CoV-2 using ELISA. We will also explore home antigen kits.
PCR Detection
12pm – 2pm
Investigate the real life spread of SARS-CoV-2 that occurred in a restaurant in China in 2020. In this hands-on experiment, you will perform agarose gel electrophoresis to analyze pre-amplified DNA samples from simulated patients and propose ways the virus may have spread. Come learn about PCR testing, the gold standard for detecting COVID.
Presenter: Ray Cinti | Biology Instructor: Green Mountain Valley School | Adjunct Professor: Human Anatomy and Physiology at the Community College of Vermont.
Ray Cinti has taught for the last 37 years at the college, high school and middle school levels. Ray currently teaches Biology at Green Mountain School in Vermont and CCV, his academic homes since 2016. He recently won two National Science Teaching awards in Biotechnology and in Agricultural Science in 2018 and 2019. He has received grants from Save the Redwoods League, Corteva AgriScience, and BioRad helping to fund student research in his lab. Ray's YouTube channel contains over 300 Biology instructional videos and has received over 2.3 million views worldwide. Ray also is a BioRad Fellow and leads several workshops each year and presents at local, regional, and national conferences.
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