sharing the trail : inspiring your students through genomics and other social media
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Sharing the Trail : Inspiring your students through GenOmics and other Social Media is a presentation made to the Alberta Teachers Association - Science Council Conference 2011. Speaker notes are provided to explain the slides. I blog Genomics to encourage Scientific Literacy at GenomeAlberta.caTRANSCRIPT
Genome AlbertaSharing the Trail
Here is what’s available from Genome Alberta!
• Curricular Support Genomics – A New Revolution in Science Inquiry into Mountain Pine Beetle Gee in Genome Kit Biotechnology module partnering/support
• Social Media Blogs GenOmics on Facebook Microblogging – Twitter Other online technology for teachers
Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs)
• Major discovery of human genome project was single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): points in genome where 2 or more alternative alleles are found in >1% of population
• 93% genes have SNPs• ~40% will alter an amino acid• SNPs may have important consequences for
health/disease
Genomics marked the beginning of a new age in biology and medicine
1900
1953
1977
1980
1983
1990
1994-98
1998
2000
2003
Watson and Crick identify DNA(the double helix) as the Chemical basis of heredity
DNA markers used to map human disease genes to chromosomal regions
Human Genome Projects (HPG) begins-an international effort to map and sequence all the genes in the human genome
DNA markers used to map human disease genes to chromosomal regions
Gene map – working draft 2000: complete release 2005
Sanger and Gilbert derive methods of sequencing DNA
Huntington disease gene mapped to chromosome 4
Genetic and physical mapping
Working Draft of the human genome sequencing complete
Rediscovery of Mendel's laws helps establish the science of genetics
Source: Health Policy Research Bulletin, volume 1 issue2, September 2001
Mountain Pine Beetle
The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic:
A Disease System of Three Genomes
HostPine Trees
Bark BeetleFungal PathogensSlide Courtesy Joerg BohlmannU BC
Genome Alberta
Forestry At the Molecular Level
Technology Society
Science
Pine BeetleEpidemic
Gee in Genome Suitcase
Gee in Genome
Wiki Mind Map
WikiSummarizer