BioTrek Workshops Theme: "Among the most precious things universities have to share are the ways researchers view and do science as a way of exploring the unknown through experiment."

1. Exploring "What is Biotechnology?"

2. Introduction to Experimentation:

• The Puzzle of the Color-changing Pencils
• The Paradox of the DNA Tube
• Which Makes Better Bubbles: Skim Milk or Whole?
• Shaking cream into butter — Is shaking really necessary?
• Thomas Chamberlin, "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses"

3. Introduction to Experimentation: Replication & Randomization

• Using Rennet to Make Milk Stiff

4. Beginning Experiments in DNA:

• Extracting DNA from Wheat Germ(.pdf)
• DNA extraction handout pdf version
• Web page explaining DNA Extraction Exploration Station
• Analyzing DNA from Salmon
• DNA tube background (web page)
• DNA tube graphic depiction
• Fiber of our lives color handout (.pdf)
• Measuring and moving liquids with micropipettes
• Photos of students using micropipettes
• The story of the invention of micropipettes
• Link to Gilson Company (original manufacturer)
• Micropipette handout (.pdf)
• DNA as Videotape
• Human DNA Model
• Web page on DNA Dance ? another term for human dna model
• Photos of the DNA Dance/model
• DNA Fountain: Double-stranded, complementary, helical--and software names for DNA bases
• Web page with four photos of dna fountain
• Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" file of text history of dna fountain

5. Gel Electrophoresis:

• Alien Blood: Forensics and Electrophoresis
• ImprovElectrophoresis: Ingenuity and Improvisation

6. Biotechnology and Food: Personal Choices and Public Policies

• "Wholesome, Holistic, and Holy"

7. BioTrek Tour of UWBC Facilities:

• DNA Sequencing
• DNA Synthesis
• Gene Expression Center

8. BioTrek Tours of Other UW Campus Science Sites:

• Microbial Sciences Building
• Babcock Hall Dairy Store
• D. C. Smith Greenhouse
• Brief description of DC Smith Greenhouse and one photo
• News item about DC Smith Greenhouse architectural award from 1998
• Allen Centennial Gardens
• Dairy Cattle Research
• Old Dairy Barn: A Cradle of the Discovery of Vitamins

9. Grandparents University

• Grandparents University

10. Sharing in the Discovery

• Stem Cell Learning Lab