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2010 Gene Team Program| Schedule Week 2 June 29-July 2 2010 | |||||
| MON | TUES | WED | THURS | FRI | |
9:00 | Coffee and discussion Yeast Screen | Coffee and discussion review RNAi discuss yeast tfn | Coffee and discussion | Coffee and discussion | Coffee and discussion |
10:00
| FUN WITH WORMS! Practice picking worms | First yeast Transformation | Research Talk:"Using yeast to define the mechanisms of human disease"Jeff Brodsky "The Bold Fold" by Grace Colletti All together | The Worm Project! Talk by Lew Start Part 1 Do RNAis work independently? | second yeast Transformation |
11:00 | |||||
Noon | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | LUNCH | |
1:00
| Talk: Reverse genetics/RNAi Lew | continued | Question writing | continued | continued |
| 2:00
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Introduce worm phenotypes Phenotype test! | |||||
| 3:00
| YEAST: innoculate saturated overnights Transformation #1 | YEAST: innoculate saturated overnights Transformation #2 | |||
4:00
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| 5:00 | Notebook /Reflection | Notebook /Reflection | Notebook /Reflection | Notebook /Reflection | Notebook /Reflection |