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Developmental Biology
Teaching Workshop
Leland Johnson, a long-time ABLE member, will be
conducting a workshop on the Developmental Biology Teaching Laboratory
at the Darling Marine Center, University of Maine, June 21-24, 2000.
This workshop, which has been offered regularly since 1992, is designed
to provide college and university faculty, postdocs, and graduate students
with basic hands-on experience in working with organisms commonly studied
in developmental biology teaching laboratories. The course will
be useful both for experienced developmental biology teachers who wish
to diversify their laboratory work and for new faculty whose training
is outside the field, but who are assigned to teach developmental biology.
Work will include teaching lab applications on sea urchins and sand
dollars, chick embryos, protists, Hydra, planaria, fresh water
oligochaetes, ferns, and flowering plants. We expect that Eric Cole
from St. Olaf College (MN), who was a past workshop participant, will
lead a special session on fluorescence microscopy techniques in the Developmental
Biology Lab, with particular applications to the study of sea urchin and
sand dollar cleavage cells.
In addition to the organized lab sessions, there will be time for sharing of techniques and ideas among the participants and some time for informal socializing, including a traditional New England lobster picnic dinner. While the focus is on Developmental Biology, there would be many potential applications of this material for general biology labs, and instructors in other courses are very welcome as participants. A number of ABLE members have been included among the approximately eighty colleagues from across the U.S. and Canada who have participated in past workshop sessions.
The Darling Marine Center, a marine laboratory of the University of Maine, is located in a beautiful setting on the scenic Damariscotta River estuary on mid-coastal Maine, about 60 miles northeast of Portland. The Center is approximately six miles from exposed, open-ocean habitats of the Gulf of Maine. It is close to major shopping areas (e.g., Freeport), and is two hours from Acadia National Park. Workshop participants will be using some of the Darling's new water-front conference facilities, which have recently been completed as part of the Center's current four million dollar expansion program.
For further information contact:
Tim Miller, Course Coordinator
Darling Marine Center
University of Maine
193 Clark's Cove Road
Walpole, ME 04573
Phone: (207) 563-3146
E-Mail: temiller@maine.maine.edu
Website: http://server.DMC.Maine.edu
Leland Johnson
Phone: (605) 336-4714
E-Mail: johnson@inst.augie.edu