Biotechnology Program
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Spring 2007Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's DNA Learning Center is coming again to hold their workshop at OCCC. The topic is Plant Molecular Genetics and Genomics and the dates are June 4-8. Check their website for more details and registration: http://www.dnalc.org/ddnalc/teacher_training/Fall 2006 NewsOCCC awarded phase II NIH SEPA grant to bring biotechnology outreach program to rural parts of Oklahoma with the help of Teacher-Leaders in the regions. Charlotte Mulvihill is awarded the 2006 Biotechnology Teaching Award from NABT and BioRad, and becomes the Director of Advanced Technology Education at OCCC. June 5-9, 2006OCCC to host Regional Bio-Link Workshop on Frontiers in Genomics which will be coming from the Dolan DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.OCCC Program Awarded Seventh OCAST Grant to team with local employers Community College Halloween Night 2005
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OCCC a Participant in INBRE*
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(*Oklahoma IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence) SUMMER BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INTERNSHIPS
Oklahoma is the proud awardee of an NIH INBRE grant that will bring over
$17 million to our state research enterprise. Oklahoma City Community
College heads the Outreach Core on this award. In recognition of the important
role that community colleges play in the education of budding scientists,
the grant will provide funding to nurture the student pipeline into biomedical
graduate programs. Student success and majors in the life sciences will
be promoted through a variety of activities including student research
internships, faculty development and statewide connections between colleges.
Visit the project web site: http://www.okinbre.org/
. Click on Biomedical research internships link above for information
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Oklahoma City Community College has been awarded OCAST internship grants. These funds, with a match, provide stipends for our students at their internship sites.
Erine and her mentor Dr. Achyuthan at Dr. McGinnis' lab at the Dean McGee Eye Institute
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CREATE Biotechnology Institute: High-Tech Low-Tech Biotechnology for High School. Teachers from Edmond, Millwood, Putnam City, Western Heights school districts attended a workshop sponsored by the CREATE consortium,including Francis Tuttle and OKCCC. Biotech experiments were done in high tech and low tech versions, and included ELISA, PCR, and electrophoresis plus an ethics module. Faculty included Lynn Cook of Putnam City West and Charlotte Mulvihill of OKCCC. |
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Oklahoma City Community College was selected as one of the sites for the summer Genomics Biology workshops run by the DNA Learning Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. This project was funded by the National Science Foundation. Community college faculty and high school teachers came together June 5-June 10 to participate in lectures and laboratories. Workshop presenters included David Micklos and Scott Bronson of the DNA Learning Center:
One of the laboratory experiments involved transformation of E. coli with a plasmid that contains the gene for Green Fluorescent Protein - below are photos taken by Catherine Pongratz of the transformed bacteria as visualized through a fluorescent microscope:
Finally, see the results of one of our group's gels of a PCR reaction for a hypervariable human locus:
Visit the web site of the DNA Learning Center for more information on the purpose and scope of the workshops: vector.cshl.org/workshops. |
| Oklahoma City Community College has been selected from 76 applicants to be among the twenty-one community colleges to participate in Phi Theta Kappa's NSF-funded Improving Science & Technology Education at Community Colleges: Round II project. The college was selected in the area of biotechnology, and the college team will consist of Dean Anna Wilson, and faculty Brenda Breeding and Charlotte Mulvihill. The team will attend two national conferences, the first on March 6-8, 1999 in San Antonio, and receive in-depth mentoring assistance from an expert in biotechnology education, Kathy Frame, Director of Education at the National Association of Biology Teachers. The college's goals include implementing our new Biotechnology curriculum according to "best practices," infusing more biotechnology content into General Biology and Microbiology courses at the college, and providing a biotechnology workshop for local high school teachers (see below). |
| Oklahoma City Community College, with CREATE and FOCUS partnerships, brought to area teachers an innovative educational model that adapts the advanced techniques and concepts of today's biotechnology to the high school environment. High quality, low-cost, hands-on, investigative laboratory experiments were developed by the National Association of Biology Teachers in partnership with Life Technologies, Inc., supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, and refined as a result of extensive field testing by high school and community college teachers across the nation. Teacher participants will receive the "Shoestring" laboratory manual and worked through selected laboratory and classroom activities. The workshop addressed National Science Education Standards. For more information on the Shoestring Biotechnology project, visit their web site:www.nabt.org/sub/shoestring. |  |
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Local teachers: Gary Brooks, WendyAnderson, Steve Stark, Will Martin, Cole Atkinson, and Deborah Hill hard at work in the biotechnology laboratory at Oklahoma City Community College. |
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