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Molecular Biology 101: DNA Extraction

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the chemical complex that encodes and stores genetic information. It is an integral component of life which play a fundamental role for the development and function of all cellular organisms including humans. Join us for the first of a series of workshops explaining the importance of DNA in today's sciences such as genetics and molecular biology. We will learn about and applying everyday tools used by molecular biologists to study DNA. In this workshop, we will focus on how to extract DNA from different organisms, including vegetables, fruits, and from your very own cheek cells using everyday common household items!

About the instructors:

Dr. Sascha Krause obtained his PhD in natural sciences at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Philipps University in Marburg, Germany and is currently working as a research associate at UW. His research interests are focused on molecular environmental microbiology in which the application of nucleic acids (DNA) based methods are of fundamental importance. He is very enthusiastic about communicating scientific principles techniques to the general public and has been teaching the principles of DNA extraction in several undergraduate courses. More information under: http://openwetware.org/wiki/User:Sascha_Krause

Dr. German G. Gornalusse obtained his PhD and is currently working as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Washington working on stem cells.

Price includes all reagents.