2011 ICORE Teachers "Omics" Workshop
(July 15 -17, 2011 in ICBR Education and Training Lab., Proteomics Lab., and Polfer Lab)
Sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the UF CPET program
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ICORE 2011 Participants pictured in the front of the Emerging Pathogens Institute
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Introduction by Ms. Julie Boker, Assistant Director of Teacher Enrichment Programs
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Proteomics discussion led by Dr. Sixue Chen, Associate Professor of Biology
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Mass spectrometry introduction by Dr. Nick Polfer, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
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Jennifer Parker, a second year Ph.D. student works with the teachers
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Mr. Jon Benskin, a high school teacher from Boca Raton Community High School talks about his high school lab "Proteomics in the Classroom: An Investigative Study of Proteins in Microorganisms". |
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A lot of hands-on experiments on protein extraction from tomato leaves and gel electrophoresis
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Jennifer Parker, a graduate student from Chen lab works with teachers
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Nisha and Vedant, two high school students participated in the workshop
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It is COOL to be in the ICORE lab at UF
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A happy group of teachers
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Ms. Drew Joseph from CPET works with the teachers
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Ms. Drew Joseph talks with the teachers
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Dr. Chen works with the teachers
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Drew and Jennifer work with the teachers
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Teachers load samples on the gel
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Mengmeng Zhu, a postdoctoral associate in Chen lab works with the teachers
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Mengmeng Zhu works with the teachers
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Jennifer and Mengmeng work with the teachers
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Vortexing hard
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Which protein band to cut out?
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Dr. Chen discusses proteomics with the teachers
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Dr. Nick Polfer working with the teachers
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Dr. Polfer talks with Jennifer Parker about mass spectrometry
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A little discussion about proteomics
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Yazhou Chen, a Ph.D. student in Chen lab helps with the workshop
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Dr. Cecilia Silva-Sanchez and Dr. Chen introduce LC-MS/MS protein sequencing and MALDI-TOF MS peptide mass fingerprinting technologies
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Ms. Mengmeng Zhu and Ran Zheng demonstrate mass spec sample preparation
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Inspecting MALDI-TOF peptide fingerprints
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MALDI-TOF/TOF instrument used for the workshop
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Dr. Chen shows sample preparation
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State-of-the Art Mass Spectrometry Technology
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MS/MS sequencing of peptides is COOL
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MS/MS sequencing of peptides is an amazing technology |
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