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Wednesdays at the Department of Genome Sciences

1 hour talks dedicated to informing the public on hot topics in genome sciences.

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Inspiring kids - High School Summer Interships

HIGH SCHOOL SUMMER INTERNSHIPS
Every year we host one motivated high school student to work in the lab with us (1-on-1). If you are interested in a similar summer internship, please contact us, we would love to have you!


2017-2018, we are mentoring 2 local high school girls- Hana and Christina (Mountlake Terrace High School).  They are looking at the protein expression in the center part of coral skeletons.  More to come!!

2016, we took a year off and taught a 1st year Crime Scene Investigation Course (CSI: Seattle).  

2015 we hosted Skyler Nunn, another high school student from Colorado.  Skyler worked with the data we generated from Anastasia's internship.  Through her 1 month internship working full time, Skyler learned R statistical software for graphics and coding and wrote a draft of her first scientific paper.  
  • Nunn, Skyler, Chappell, P.D., Bonderenko, A., Jenkins, B., Nunn, B.L., (2017). Phytoplankton plastid proteomics:  Cracking open diatoms to understand plastid biochemistry under iron limitation. Journal of Emerging Investigators 2, pp 1-8.
2014 we hosted Anastasia, a local high school intern (Newport High School), in our lab.  She worked on a project sequencing the organelle-specific proteomes of diatoms.  During the course of the summer, she prepared samples for the mass spectrometer, collected and analyzed data, and helped us with fieldwork. 

HIGH SCHOOL CLASS TOURS
Every year we host 5-10 high school class tours.  Students arrive and get oriented to the inner workings of the Department of Genome Sciences.  After a brief general presentation, the class is broken into groups of 8-9 students tour groups.  These tour groups then break off with a representative graduate student, post-doctoral fellow, or a professor to the various labs to learn about their area of interest.  Students then meet back together and discuss what they learned.  We teach the general techniques of mass spectrometry and proteomics and finish the tour with our mass spectrometry facility.

PUBLIC OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES
Whenever we have the opportunity, we should teach the children how exciting our research is!  We make a huge effort to hold a booth at the Pacific Science Center in downtown Seattle two times a year.  The Science Center hold two hands- on- events for local research groups to demonstrate their research and inspire kids.  Annually, we attend the PAWS on SCIENCE event in the spring and the LIFE SCIENCES RESEARCH outreach in the fall.


We also have been involved in a workshop for middle and high school students in Yakima Valley, WA.  This area is typically underserved in terms of science outreach and we had a great time interacting with hundreds of students, their teachers and parents.

Brook Nunn, PhD, gives Public Lecture on Microbes in the Ocean
Watch it HERE!

We were at the Seattle Pacific Science Center Life Sciences Research Weekend
Pacific Science Center
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Friday 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Saturday-Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Women In Genome Sciences
Women in Genome Sciences (WiGS) is a group of genome scientists at the University of Washington working as an advocacy organization for women in our department and our field.  We strive to ensure our department is encouraging to women in a number of ways. We believe that everyone should have an opportunity to be successful in science, regardless of their gender, race, sexuality, class, age, etc. We encourage all members of the department who are interested in these issues to join us.
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You can find us at each PAWS on SCIENCE
At Pacific Science Center in April 
All Mixed Up and Race the Mass Spectrometer!
Friday, Saturday & Sunday 
Learn about the tools chemists use to separate chemicals from mixtures. Then see if you can separate chemicals on our mass spec racetrack

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Brook Nunn starts the demonstration by reminding kids that they already know quite a bit of chemistry. Here, she is having this 8 year old boy organize different chemicals by size before he starts doing chromatography
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” 
- William Arthur Ward
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