Workshops & Summer Programs
CIBT at STANYS
The Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers presents sessions each year at the STANYS annual conference. We look forward so seeing you there!
| Sunday | |
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| 1:45 - 2:45 | Session Y-31 & |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | Session Z-31: Investigating the Virulence of Erwinia Amylovora Florianna Blanton, Cheryl Galvani, and Laurel Southard This is a double workshop session involving Y-31 and Z-31. Participants must register for, and attend BOTH workshops. Erwinia amylovora is a species of pathogenic bacteria that causes the disease fire blight in apples and pears. In this multimedia lab, developed through CIBT, students will be learn how to find new genes in a genome sequence, hypothesize about the functions of these genes and test their hypothesis through reverse genetics using time-lapse films of infected pears. The latest version of this lab is available in the Lab Database. Presentation (1.7 MB) |
| Monday | |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Session B-32: The Broken Heart Laurel Southard, Cheryl Galvani, and Florianna Blanton, CIBT; Jeanne Raish, Avoca Central School In this CIBT activity, students use the heart of a cow to learn about the heart structures. They locate the atria, ventricles, and major blood vessels. Through surgical procedures, students perform coronary bypass surgery and correct patent ductus arteriosus. |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Session C-32: Crickets in Your Classroom Florianna Blanton, Cheryl Galvani, and Laurel Southard, CIBT This CIBT laboratory exercise is designed to allow elementary and middle school students to follow the scientific method to find out what crickets eat, the relationship between temperature and chirping and the cricket's response to light. Working with the common house cricket (Acheta domesticus) students record and graph their observations and come to conclusions based on the class data. |
| 1:45 - 2:45 | Session D-32: Building Blocks of Life Florianna Blanton, Cheryl Galvani, and Laurel Southard, CIBT; Nancy Harrison, Vestal High School The shape of a protein determines its function. In this CIBT lab, students are given a hypothetical DNA sequence for part of an enzyme. They determine the amino acid sequence coded for by the DNA and use it to construct a 3D representation of their enzyme, using children's building blocks to represent amino acids. Students examine a substrate and predict the shape of a protein that could interact with that substrate. They then construct mutant versions of the enzyme to see how the interaction between the enzyme and substrate are affected. |
