NEWS/UPCOMING | AMBL - Part 4

Welcome back to school everyone! We’re now taking booking requests for our popular high school field trip programs. *UPDATE: Our field trip programs are full for the Sept-May 2010-2011 season. Please check back in late August – early September 2011 for bookings in the 2011-2012 school year.* Interested teachers should check the fieldtrips page for more information.

We’ll also be launching registration for our annual high school teacher conference in the coming week. Save the date! Friday October 22nd, 2010

Dates have been announced for the next molecular biology workshop (June 7th to 11th). Full details and testimonials can be found at this link.

Photos from our annual high school conference have been posted. Thanks go to Ms. Marshall from Terry Fox Secondary for all the great shots!

Online registration for our popular high school student conference – Friday March 5th, 2010 – is now open!

THE MICHAEL SMITH LABS AND ADVANCED MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LAB PRESENT OUR LABORATORY BIOINFORMATICS WORKSHOP, 2010 Spring Session. This workshop will focus on bioinformatics techniques for practical use in the laboratory. Hands-on exercises for retrieving data, with tools for primer design, for BLAST searching, and for navigating genomics data will be…

Host Bob McDonald and 10 experts will answer the 10 best questions sent in by you. Do you have a burning question that’s never found an answer? Have you ever wondered how sparrows survive the cold prairie winters, or why we get dark circles under our eyes, or why storms…

We are currently accepting proposals for hosting small group workshops for teachers. The idea is that AMBL can host 15-20 teachers here at UBC for the day, help organize programming, facilitate sessions, and offer our expertise into the mix. For more information, please see: http://www.bioteach.ubc.ca/pilots/