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View the Symposium talks online!
Hear keynote speaker Craig Venter, President of The Center for the Advancement of Genomics and founder of Celera Genomics, the company that won the race to decode the human genome.
Grade 6-12 teachers: A physicist, a chemist, and a biologist will describe their contributions to the human genome project, and how integration among the sciences influenced their work.
Grade K-8 teachers: Choose from several sessions featuring the latest in science education resources and techniques.
Download a printable flyer you can use to help convince your colleagues to come with you. (The flyer requires Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 or later. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download it free from Adobe.)
The registration fee for the day is $10, which includes a box lunch.
Questions? Contact Nancy Lanning at 630-840-5588 or lanning@fnal.gov
Agenda
7:30-8:15 Registration & Continental Breakfast
Ramsey Auditorium Foyer8:15-9:00 J. Craig Venter
Ramsey Auditorium
Symposium on the
Nature of Science
Grades 6-12Science Resource Fair
Grades K-89:00-9:15 Q & A with Craig Venter 9:15-10:45 Parallel Session 1 9:30-10:35 Marcos Antezana: Gene Sequences and Gene Function; Gene Expression and Aging; or the Value of Looking the Other Way 10:35-11:35 Lunch 11:00-12:30 Parallel Session 2 11:35-12:40 Neil Kelleher: How a Chemist Needs Computer Science, Biology, and Engineering to Push the Limits of Modern Mass Spectrometry 12:30-1:15 Lunch 12:55-2:00 Harold Garner: Research at the Interface of Biomedicine and the Physical Sciences 1:30-2:30 Parallel Session 3 2:00-2:30 Leon Lederman:
Closing Thoughts
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