Fall 2009 Lecture and Laboratory Series for High School Biology Teachers

Physiology and Morphology

Program Format:

Each fall Life Sciences-HHMI Outreach explores an important area of research in biology by offering five afternoons of faculty lectures, laboratories, tours and related activities.  This fall, faculty members who conduct research involving animal physiology and morphology have been invited to speak to participating teachers.

Previous years' topics have included:

• 2002 Embryology and Development: Genetic and Molecular Perspectives
• 2003 The Biology of Cancer
• 2004 Immunology and Infectious Diseases
• 2005 Neuroscience
• 2006 Evolution
• 2007 Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology
• 2008 Microbes and Disease

Program Schedule:

The program will be held on Wednesday afternoons from 4:00PM to 7:00PM on October 7th and 21st, November 4th and18th, and December 2nd.

• 4:00-6:00PM Lectures, Laboratories and related activities
• 6:00-7:00PM Dinner provided by the Outreach Program

Cost:

This program is FREE and funded by the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Application Requirements:

Applicants must be full-time high school biology teachers or curriculum directors at public, private, parochial or charter schools in Massachusetts, New Hampshire or Rhode Island.  All correspondence regarding the program takes place via email.

Application Deadline: September 25th, 2009