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Registration includes: - Student Modeling Pack so you can model with presenters* - Professional development - Free activities and digital modeling resources - Access to webinar recordings
*Receive the Student Modeling Pack Collection if you register for the full series!
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Jim Lane, Mahtomedi High School
Whether breaking bonds, dissolving NaCl or exploring states of matter your students will be captivated by the magnetic Water Kit©. The versatile kit will engage students in chemistry, biology, biochemistry, earth science or physical science and its usefulness spans, from middle and high school to college.
Tim Herman, PhD, Director, Center for BioMolecular Modeling
Explore the structure of aquaporin channels and how they allow water to pass through membranes. Hear how the exploding frog egg experiment led Peter Agre’s lab to realize that the mystery protein was indeed a water channel. A few years later, this work resulted in a Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Dr. Agre.
Receive a Water Student Modeling Pack with your registration.
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Fran Grant, Grafton High School & Mark Arnholt, Hartford Union High School
Model protein synthesis with us and later with your students - whether they are virtual or face-to-face - with the Flow of Genetic Information Kit© and/or Nucleotide Student Modeling Pack©. Learn about a cutting-edge treatment for sickle cell disease and how it helped the endearing Obando sisters.
Explore the structure of hemoglobin and the effects of the sickle cell mutation before discussing the use of CRISPR-based gene editing technology to treat sickle cell anemia.
Receive a Nucleotide Student Modeling Pack with your registration.
Wednesday, February 10, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Karen Avery, Pennsylvania College of Technology & Dan Williams, Shelter Island High School
Spark questions with the Synapse Construction Kit© and provide hands-on activities to achieve Concept Explanation and Visual Representation goals in a topic that students find intrinsically interesting. How does the neurotransmitter not only get back in the presynaptic cell, but back in the vesicle? What energy is involved in the transport of these molecules? Do some neurotransmitters remain in synapse all the time? Why don’t they stimulate further action potentials?
Explore the structure of the acetylcholinesterase active site, its enzymes, inhibitors and how the natural genetic variation in mosquito populations resulted in the evolution of this protein.
Receive a Membrane Student Modeling Pack with your registration.
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Using engaging and powerful kits model how proteins are simply long linear sequences of amino acids, that spontaneously fold into complex 3D shapes, following basic principles of chemistry. Then explore how a stylized enzyme model will help students understand basic concepts while an accurate model leads to increasing levels of complexity.
Learn how everything has changed in drug design with the November of 2020 unveiling of AlphaFold2 by Google DeepMind. Alphafold2 is a computational algorithm that accurately predicts the 3D structure of a protein, based on its amino acid sequence.
Receive a Protein Student Modeling Pack with your registration.
Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Chris Chou, Longmont High School
Explore and compare mitosis and meiosis in this hands-on interactive workshop. You will see how the Chromosome Connections Kit© & Chromosome Student Modeling Pack© will take your students from the cellular scale to the molecular scale connecting DNA nucleotides to chromosomes, whether modeling mitosis or Punnett Squares.
Learn about epigenetics and how it regulates gene expression. In addition, we will discuss how redundant DNA repair systems add to the accuracy of DNA replication to ensure that we persist as humans while retaining the ability to evolve.
Receive a Chromosome Student Modeling Pack with your registration.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Explore CRIPSR as an adaptive immunity system in bacteria using the new Adaptive Immunity Kit©. A classic 2012 paper proves how this system works and will give your students practice in interpreting scientific data. Model how restriction enzymes connect to a CRISPR endonuclease for editing the human genome.
Discuss the classic paper from 2012 that definitively proved how the adaptive immunity system works and use this paper with your students to practice interpreting scientific data with a connection to current biological research.
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Use the new CRISPR Kit© to explore the Cas9 endonuclease’s unique ability to recognize a statistically unique site in the 3.2 billion base-pair human genome, before moving to an accurate 3D-printed Cas9 model to explore enhancements of the system that become an even more powerful genome editing tool.
Learn about the additional modifications to the CRISPR Cas9 protein that makes it an even more precise gene editing tool.
Receive Nucleotide Student Modeling Pack with your registration.
Monday, March 22, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Alice Scheele, Patrick Henry High School
Engage your students’ senses – touch, sight and hearing with the magnetic Water Kit© and see the amazing ways your students can model the physical and chemical properties of water from hydrogen bonding and surface tension to transpiration and dissolving ionic bonds. Don’t forget the tetrahedral arrangement of water molecules!
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
In this hands-on interactive workshop, participants will learn how to utilize physical phospholipid and transport protein models to explore the structure of the cell membrane, the role of transport proteins in moving ions and small molecules across membranes, and how defects in transport proteins can cause diseases such as cystic fibrosis.
Discover how the structure of different membrane-embedded protein channels allow for selective transport of specific ions and molecules. Then learn how scorpion-toxin acts as a neurotoxin to inhibit the potassium channel.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Inspire curiosity, questions, and discussion with 3DMD’s hands-on DNA modeling kits. Students will discover the dynamics of DNA – twisting, untwisting, separating for replication and transcription and coming back together. Upon examining the intricacies of DNA anatomy, they can analyze the cross-cutting relationship of structure and function.
All students learn that RNA has uracil, and DNA has thymine. But why is this so? Discuss the science behind this seldom addressed question and suggest ways to encourage students to think deeply and ask probing questions.
Receive a Double Helix Student Modeling Pack with your registration.
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Diane Sigalas, M.Ed., Livingston High School
Your students will go from the blank-stare-wall state-of-mind to understanding the science of PCR, Sanger Sequencing and restriction enzymes when actively modeling these processes with the Biotechnology Kit©. Then launch into applications in diagnostics, genetics and forensics. Enrich in-class or distance learning with NGSS, AP or IB consistent lessons.
Learn about the amazing advances in biotechnology over the past 50 years – and how they have prepared researchers to create coronavirus vaccines. Within one year, researchers used biotechnology tools to sequence a new viral genome, solve the 3D structure of one of its key proteins, and developed a vaccine that will produce antibodies to inactivate that protein. Isn’t science amazing?
Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 6:00 PM Central
Engage your students in using data, exploring cross-cutting concepts and emerging technology to Model a Protein Story (MAPS). Students first focus on how coronavirus vaccines trigger antibody production, before exploring an emerging technology in which engineered prophylactic nanobodies could be delivered via a nebulizer to inactivate the coronavirus spike protein.
Diane Munzenmaier, PhD, Program Director, Center for Bio Molecular Modeling
Learn about the CBM’s MAPS program and how to involve your students in a protein modeling project.
Receive an Antibody Student Modeling Pack with your registration.