9:00 - 9:15 AM |
Welcome from hosts: Linda Sabatino, Suffolk County Community College; Sheldon Gordon, Farmingdale State University; James Fulton, Suffolk County Community College; Jack Winn, Farmingdale State University. |
9:15 -10:15 AM |
Mac Lab: Mendelian transmission genetics and Chi-squared goodness of fit (with Genetics Construction Kit) - Mac Classic (to start out with a familiar area but a more open-ended, research-like simulation to engage participants in experimental design, problem solving, and analysis |
10:15 - 10:30 AM |
Break |
10:30 – 11:00 AM |
Lecture Room: mini-talk & INTERACTIVE demo on “3Rs of DNA: Replication, Recombination, and Repair” (a very brief intro to topology vs geometry and little bit of knot theory) |
11:00 - Noon |
PC Lab: Bioinformatics: BLAST, multiple sequence alignment, and phylogenetic tree building |
Noon - 12:30 PM |
Lecture Room: Mathematics of Tree Building: Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Counting; Distance vs Character based tree building |
12:30 - 1:30 PM |
Lecture Room: Working lunch - discuss curriculum and longer intros of each participant and their interests |
1:30 - 2:30 PM |
PC Lab: The Biological ESTEEM Project – engage each group in one of seven different Excel-based labs focusing on a different are of biology and math - and then mini-reporting out from each group to inform all other groups |
2:30 - 3:15 PM |
Lecture Room: Space, Time, and Phylogeny: Criteria for mathematics across the biology curriculum |
3:15 - 3:30 PM |
Break |
3:30 – 4:15 PM |
Two simultaneous sessions:
1) Mac Lab: Sequence It! and Mastermind - using a game, combinatorics, and an open-ended research-like simulation to learn protein biochemistry
AND
2) PC Lab: Dr. Seuss and Community Ecology: javaFoodWeb: using interval graphs to understand predator-predator interactions, niche space, and trophic levels |
4:15 - 5:00 PM |
Lecture Room: closing discussion of mathematics and biology curriculum |
