Come see the normally invisible substance of life DNA!
Thursday November 18
4pm – 5:30pm @ the 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
Visit the fabulous new South Burlington Library and introduce yourself to molecular biology by extracting your own DNA. You have heard about it, read about it in the news, perhaps studied its structure but have you ever seen your own DNA?
This engaging activity employs the same real-world laboratory procedure used to extract DNA from many different organisms for a variety of biotechnology research applications. This fun filled workshop will allow participants to extract their own DNA from cheek cells then precipitate and bottle it in a cool helix-shaped necklace. Leave with your own Genes in a Bottle!
End of the Workshop Raffle Win a free BioRad kit
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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