The European Society of Human Genetics annual essay contest is now open. Full information at http://www.dnaday.eu More info from www.irishsocietyofhumangenetics.blogspot.com
Register your students for a 3 hour practical laboratory experience in the NUI Galway biomedical sciences laboratories! Participants will have the opportunity to practice molecular biology techniques, to learn about DNA structure and function, and to discover how variation in the DNA code underpins human disease.
Open to: Any student studying biology currently in the senior cycle of secondary school
Capacity: 40 students
To apply: Download the registration form, complete it and return by post to: Derek Morris, Discipline of Biochemistry, School of Natural Sciences, by Friday the 17th April. Note: if you are under 18 a parent/guardian will have to sign the form.
Download the registration form here
About International DNA Day (25th April): DNA day celebrates the day on which the structure of DNA was published in the journal Nature in 1953. The deciphering of this structure by James Watson and Francis Crick, with help from X-ray crystallography data from Rosalind Franklin, paved the way for a new era of genomic research and discovery. On this same day in 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that they had sequenced the vast majority of the human genome. You can learn more about DNA and the applications of DNA analysis by liking and following the DNA Day Facebook page.
About the BSc in Biomedical Science: The BSc in Biomedical Science is a four year science degree course run through the School of Natural Sciences. The programme is directed by Dr. Derek Morris. For more information about the course, and of the requirements needed for course entry, click here.
About the Morris Lab: The Morris research laboratory, based in the School of Natural Sciences in NUI Galway, investigates diseases that are caused by the interaction of many different genes. They are interested in particular in investigating what genes may put a person at risk of developing psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. You can learn more about their research here.
The following are links to experiments that you can send to your students. Each will download the zipped files needed to run the simulation. Each will…
Google Code-in is a global online contest introducing 13-17 year olds students to open source software development. It is a great way for students to gain real world experience working on an open source project and gain confidence in their skills while having mentors available to help guide them through the contest. Contest launches on Monday 7th December.
Some of the organizations creating tasks for students to work on in the contest include OpenMRS (medical records systems for developing countries), Systers (community dedicated to getting more women involved in CS), Wikimedia, RTEMS (operating system used in satellites, medical devices robots) and 10 other open source organizations dedicated to introducing young minds to open source development.
The contest will start for students on Monday, December 7th. Students complete tasks of their choosing in the following categories: coding, documentation, UI, outreach, quality assurance, training and research. Prizes include digital certificates, t-shirts, hoodies, and 28 grand prize winners will win a trip to Google headquarters in California, USA next June for themselves and a parent or legal guardian.
You can learn more about the details of the contest on our blog post: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2015/11/introducing-google-code-in-2015.html and the contest site g.co/codein.
Over the last 5 years we have had 2233 students from 87 countries complete tasks in the contest.
The Google Code-in global online contest introducing 13-17 year old pre-university students to open source software development starts on Monday November 18th.
It is with great pleasure that the FSE Research Committee would like to invite members of the ISTA to the Maynooth University Faculty of Science &…
