Explorations in Biomedical Research Participant Schedule July 5-17, 2015 at the University of Florida
Sunday, July 5, 1:00pm: Check In Begins / Location: Beaty Rec Room 2015 3:30pm: Residential Convocation / Yulee Rec Room: o Welcome by Dr. Houda Darwiche o Staff Introductions (Residential Counselors) o General overview: Residence Hall Rules 4:30-6:15pm: Getting to know each other 6:30pm: Dinner/ Location: Fresh Food Company 7:30-8:30pm: UF Scavenger Hunt 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites
Monday, July 6, 7:00am: Good morning! 2015 7:15 am: Meet counselors on floor to walk to breakfast 7:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 8:15am: Meet in front of Fresh Food Company to walk to Reitz Union Bus Stop (Bus #117) 9:00am: Program Orientation / Location: CGRC Room 184 o Welcome from Dr. Mary Jo Koroly, CPET Director o Program Overview o Pre Assessments 10:00-11:00am: Biological Safety Session o Dr. Bhavna Bhardwaj, UF Environmental Health & Safety 11:00am-11:30am: Keeping a Lab Notebook 11:30am-12:00pm: Designer Plates Pipetting Activity 12:00-1:00 pm Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 1:00-2:00pm: Laboratory Safety Session / Location: CGRC Room 184 o Dr. Mark Yanchisin, UF Environmental Health & Safety 2:00-4:00 pm: Bacterial Transformation with GFP 4:00-4:30 pm: Walk/bus back to Beaty Towers 5:00pm: Meet Counselors on Floor to walk to Dinner 5:15-6:15pm: Dinner / Location: Fresh Food Company 7:00pm: Marshmallow Engineering / Location: Beaty Lobby & Outside 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites
Tuesday, July 7, 7:00am: Good morning! 2015 7:15am: Walk to Fresh Food Company 7:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 8:15am: Meet in front of Fresh Food Company to walk to Reitz Union Bus Stop (Bus #117) 9:00-11:00am: Bioengineering Activity / Location: CGRC Room 184 11:00-12:00pm: Bacterial Transformation - Results 12:00-1:00 pm Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 1:00-3:00pm: What Can Worms Do For You? / Location: CGRC Room 184 o Dr. Keith Choe, UF Department of Biology 3:00-4:00 pm: Research Proposal Info Session 4:00-4:30 pm: Walk/bus back to Beaty Towers 5:45pm: Meet Counselors on Floor to walk to Dinner 6:00-7:00: Dinner / Location: Fresh Food Company 7:00-7:15: Walk to Bartram-Carr Courtyard 7:15-7:45pm: Bat Biology Session (with Science Quest) o Ms. Kelly Speer, UF Department of Biology 7:45-8:15pm: Travel to UF Bat Houses 8:15-9:00pm: Visit the UF Bat Houses 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites
Wednesday, July 8, 7:00am: Good morning! 2015 7:15am: Walk to Fresh Food Company 7:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 8:15am: Meet in front of Fresh Food Company to walk to Reitz Union Bus Stop (Bus #117) 9:00-12:00am: Introduction to PCR and Primer Design / Location: CGRC Room 184 12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 1:00-2:30 pm: Inheritance and Human Disease Genes / Location: CGRC Room 184 2:30-4:00 pm: Work on Research Proposals 4:00-4:30 pm: Walk/bus back to Beaty Towers 5:45pm: Meet Counselors on Floor to walk to Dinner 6:00-7:00pm: Dinner / Location: Fresh Food Company 7:00-9:00pm: Outbreak! Humans vs. Disease Activity 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites
Thursday, July 9, 7:00am: Good morning! 2015 7:00-8:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 9:00-9:45am: Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine / Location: CGRC Room 184 o Dr. Kristin Weitzel, UF Department of Pharmacotherapy and Translational Medicine 9:45-11:15am: Pharmacogenomics Webquest & Microarray 11:15am-12:00pm – Set up PCR Reactions 12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 1:00-2:00pm: Bioengineering Activity Part II 2:00-3:00pm: Current Applications in Stem Cell Research 3:00-4:00pm: Stem Cell Activity 4:00-4:30 pm: Walk/bus back to Beaty Towers Free evening (make sure to sign out with a counselor if you decide to venture out!) 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites
Friday, July 10, 2015 7:00am: Good morning! 7:00-8:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 9:00-10:15 am: PCR Results & Analysis / Location: CGRC Room 184 10:30-11:15am: Forensic Genotyping o Ms. Ginger Clark, UF William R. Maples Center for Forensic Medicine 11:15-12:00pm: Bacterial Transformation Part II 12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 1:00-3:00pm: What Can Worms Do For You? / Location: CGRC Room 184 o Dr. Keith Choe, UF Department of Biology 3:00-4:00 pm: Work on Research Proposals (if not signing out for the weekend) 4:00-4:30 pm: Walk/bus back to Beaty Towers 5:00-6:30pm: Dinner / Location: Fresh Food Company Movie Night – Jurassic World at Regal Cinemas (Butler Plaza) 12:00am: In-suites
Saturday, July 11, 6:30am: Good morning! 2015 6:45am: Walk to Fresh Food Company 7:00am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 7:45am: Load into vans 8:00am-4:00pm: Field Trip to Rainbow Springs State Park 5:15pm: Meet Counselors on Floor to walk to Dinner 5:30-7:00pm: Dinner / Location: Fresh Food Company 7:00-9:00pm: Game Night! / Location: Beaty Rec Room 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites Sunday, July 12, Free Day : Make sure to sign in/out with a counselor when leaving Beaty Towers! 2015 8:00-10:00pm: Ice Cream Social / Location: Beaty Rec Room 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites Monday, July 13, 7:30am: Good morning! 2015 7:30-8:45am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 9:00am: Meet at Beaty to walk to Health Science Center 9:30-10:30am: Medical Simulator Demonstration o Mr. Drew Gonsalves, UF Center for Safety, Simulation, & Advanced Learning Technologies 10:45-11:15: Biomedical Research Lab Visits Session 1 11:30-12:15: Biomedical Research Lab Visits Session 2 12:15-1:00: Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 1:00-1:45pm: Protein Chemistry o Dr. Linda Bloom, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, College of Medicine 2:00-3:00pm: Protein Crystallization Lab 3:00-3:30pm: Bacterial Transformation Results & Analysis 3:30-4:00pm: Intro to Antibodies and ELISA 4:00-4:30 pm: Walk/bus back to Beaty Towers 5:00-6:00pm: Dinner / Location: Fresh Food Company 6:15pm: Load into vans (Beaty) 7:00-8:00pm: Astronomy Show, “Planets in the House” / Location: Kika Silva Pla Planetarium o Mr. James Albury, Planetarium Coordinator, Santa Fe College 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites Tuesday, July 14, 7:00am: Good morning! 2015 7:00-8:00am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 8:15: Load into vans 9:00am-4:00pm – Field Trip to Progress Park, Alachua, Florida o Experiments at Biotility with Ms. Lori Wojciechowski o Tour of Sid Martin Biotechnology Incubator o Tour of RTI Surgical Free evening: make sure to sign out with a counselor if you decide to venture out! 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites Wednesday, July 15, 7:00am: Good morning! 2015 7:00-8:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 9:00-10:15 am: Mass Spectrometry in Omics Sciences o Dr. Sixue Chen, UF Department of Biology 10:15-11:15am: Molecular Detective Demonstration 11:30am-12:30pm: Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 12:30-1:30pm: Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry Core Tour 1:30pm: Load into vans 2:00-4:00pm: Lab Experiment – Mysterious White Powder 4:00pm: Load into vans (back to Beaty) 5:30-6:30pm: Dinner / Location: Fresh Food Company 6:30pm: Walk to the Digital Worlds Institute 7:00-9:00pm: Science Fiction Movie, Creative B Series/ Digital Worlds Institute 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites Thursday, July 16, 7:00am: Good morning! 2015 7:00-8:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 9:00-9:30am: Protein Crystallization Results 9:30-10:30am: Protein Synthesis 10:30-11:15: Post Assessments 12:00-1:00pm: Lunch / Location: Sun Terrace 1:00-1:30pm: Information Session, UF Honors Program o Ms. Melissa Johnson 1:30-4:00pm: Work on Research Proposals 4:00-4:30 pm: Walk/bus back to Beaty Towers 5:00-7:00pm: Dinner / Location: Reitz Union 7:00-10:00pm: Take this time to finish up your proposals & prepare your presentations! 10:30pm: On the floor 11:00pm: In-suites Friday, July 17, 2015 7:00am: Good morning! 7:00-8:30am: Breakfast / Location: Fresh Food Company 9:00am-2:00pm: Final Presentations and Farewell Party o Catered Lunch from Chipotle 2:00-3:00pm – Check out / Location: Beaty Towers
Beaty Towers Front Desk: 352-392-6111 CPET Main Office: 352-392-2344 Houda Darwiche: 352-262-8779