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Discover the Microbes Within!: The Wolbachia Project at the Marine Biological Laboratory

Michele Bahr

Nov 20th, 2009 @ 10:41am

Discover the Microbes Within!: The Wolbachia Project is a HHMI pre-college education program which includes a workshop, a loaner program and support for summer research for teacher/student pairs.

The objective is to bring real-world scientifc research into the classroom through a series of integrative labs focusing on a bacterial endosymbiont, Wolbachia, that infects ~20% of insects.

Topics covered include ecology, biodiversity, molecular methods and bioinformatics.

The next workshop will be held 23-25 April 2010 in Woods Hole, MA, and the application deadline is 11 Jan.

More complete information, including the application, is available at http://discover.mbl.edu or by contacting Michele Bahr at mbahr@mbl.edu.

Michele Bahr

Jan 8th, 2010 @ 10:03am

The application deadline has been extended until Feb. 1.