Computational Biology Research Half-day Camps for High School Students
Goals
- Expose high school students to the emerging era of medical genomics, when all doctors must be well-acquainted with genetic discoveries, technologies, and applications.
- Give high school students an opportunity to enjoy science. (Hear one student talking about it at TEDxYouth.)
- Support GIDAS (Genes In Diseases And Symptoms) club members for in-depth knowledge in the field.
- Prepare high school students for the Annual Genes and Health Contest with a theme based on the chosen disease of the year.
- Provide high school students tools for Science Fair projects.
- Prepare high school students to present at the Annual Research Conference and publish an abstract.
- Encourage high school students to write a research paper in the Jounal of Emerging Investigators.
Past Examples:
- Activated NF-κB Pathway in an Irf6-Deficient Mouse Model for Van der Woude Syndrome. Sanika S. Kulkarni(1), Jungwoo Chang(2), and Inhan Lee(3):(1) Pioneer High School, (2) Huron High School, (3) miRcore, Ann Arbor, MI.
- Transcriptional Regulators are Upregulated in the Substantia Nigra of Parkinson’s Disease Patients. Marianne Cowherd(1) and Inhan Lee(2): (1)Community High School, (2)miRcore, Ann Arbor, MI.
MAIN TARGETS: high school students (young women and men) who are intereted in computer, math, biology, and medicine.
Sponsor: Women In Science and Engineering (WISE)
