Professional Development Teacher Workshop
415 Tucker Hall and Townsend Hall
Saturday, March 8, 2014
University of Missouri
Presented by:
Dr. Gary Stacey – Director of the Legume-Microbe Laboratory
Dr. Katalin Toth
Dr. Shakhawat Hassain
Dr. Kiwamu Tanaka
Dr. Dong Xu
Dr. Trupti Joshi
Dr. Deanna Lankford
Workshop Schedule:
09:00 - Welcome & Introductions
09:05 - Dr. Gary Stacey discusses the research completed in his lab
09:20 - Dr. Shakhawat Hossain: DNA Extraction
10:20 ----- Break -----
10:25 - Dr. Katalin Toth: Designing and implementing on investigation into nitrogen fixation
11:30 - Dr. Kiwamu Tanaka: Investigating plant pigment extraction and separation through paper chromatography12:30 ----- Lunch ----- Provided
01:15 - Dr. Dong Xu: Introduction to Bioinformatics and scientific databases
02:15 ----- Break -----
2:30 - Dr. Trupti Joshi: Bioinformatics—Mining DNA,RNA, and Protein Databases for information about gene function and evolutionary trends
4:30 - Next Steps & Closure
Workshop Materials:
The Role of Nitroden in Plant Growth
Bioinformatics for High-School Education