Each summer, GlycoNet-affiliated researchers host several teachers in their labs. Over the course of a couple of weeks, the teachers become familiar with the projects GlycoNet researchers are working on, learn about the career possibilities in glycomics-related STEM fields, and have the opportunity to try out some basic experiments. The teachers then draw on this experience to create resources and activities for use in general science, biology, and chemistry classrooms across the country.
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WebQuest: Bacteria are Dangerous!!!
Are bacteria friends or foes?
WebQuest: Beta-What? A look at carbohydrates and our immune system
How does our diet affect our health?
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Video: Regulation of Enzymes
Understanding how enzymes work is important for treating serious diseases like diabetes.
Career Connection: Guillaume Dejean
What is it like being a scientist?
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Exploration Activity: Plant Puzzle
Learn more about the action of enzymes how we use them to treat diabetes.
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Explore an Issue: Biofuel Brouhaha
How are carbohydrates turned into fuel?
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Factors Affecting the Rate of an Enzyme Catalyzed Reaction
Investigate rate-determining factors of enzymes in this colourful lab activity.
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Lab Activity: Urinalysis
How can disease affect the composition of urine?
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Exploration: Therapeutic Proteins
This lesson explains how glycobiotechnology helps treat serious diseases.
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WebQuest: Influenza and Sialic Acid
Explore the molecular interactions behind the flu.
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Career Connection: Chris Whitfield & Eric Brown
What is the life of a scientist like?
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Career Connection: Warren Wakarchuk
Learn about Dr. Wakarchuks’ research in glycobiology.
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Career Profile: Mario Monteiro
Let’s bust the myth of vaccine and autism.
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Career Profile: Eric Brown
How is he tacking antibiotic-resistant bacteria?
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Case Study: More Antibiotics?
Learn more about the emerging threat of antibiotic resistance.
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Case Study: Pregnancy and Blood Type
How can blood group antigens cause complications during pregnancy?
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Case Study: MRSA
What are the dangers posed by MRSA?
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Explore an Issue: Antibiotic Resistance
What can we do to prevent microbes evading from antibiotics?
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Explore an Issue: Hemp in Canada
Learn about hemp and its economic value.
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Explore an Issue: Discovering New Antibiotics
How are new antibiotics discovered?
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Lab Activity: Bacteria in Food
Explore some of the beneficial microbes found in food.
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Lab Activity: Amazing Lactase-ing!
What does genetics have to do with lactase? And how does this enzyme remove lactose from milk?
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Lab Activity: Separation Exploration
Discover how scientists separate mixtures in the laboratory, and use the same principles in a classroom investigation.
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Envisioning the Career Road Ahead
Discover non-traditional careers in science and create presentations to share your findings.
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WebQuest: Cell Membranes and Medicines
Many molecules interact with receptors located on the cell membrane – why is this essential for discovering new drugs?
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WebQuest: Vaccination
Create an awareness campaign about the importance of vaccination.
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Case Study: Improving Human Health
Learn more about the thalidomide tragedy, functional groups, and isomerism.
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Exploration: Searching for Molecules at the Speed of Google
An activity on transcription, translation, and the chemical properties of amino acids.
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Lab Investigation: Factors Influencing Solvent Flow
Examine how fluids interact with different surfaces.
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Exploration: Making a Bacteriophage
Examine transcription and translation in the context of bacteriophages, a tool used to build large peptide libraries.
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Adapted Primary Literature: Paper and Tape Phage Detectors
Make a simple, low-cost device to detect bacteria in resource-limited environments.
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Protein Structure Papier Maché
Find out how 3D protein structure is determined.
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WebQuest: Careers Related to PET Scans
Explore the development of PET imaging agents while learning about the people involved and their careers.
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Case Study: Diagnostics and PET Scans
Students role play to diagnose and suggest treatments for a family’s illness.
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Explore an Issue: The Ethics of Animal Testing
What is it like being a scientist?
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Lab Activity: Biofiltration
What is cyclodextrin? Find out how this molecule is being used to clean up some of the world’s water.
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HIV/AIDS Through Time
Use this interactive timeline to explore how our understanding of this disease has changed through time.
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Manufacturing a Vaccine
Learn more about the development of vaccines and their components.
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Career Connection: Dr. Giguère
Follow Dr. Denis Giguère’s career path and learn about the research going on in his lab.
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Bringing New Drugs to Market
How does a molecule discovered in a lab become a drug on our pharmacy shelves? Find out in this lesson.
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Exploration Activity: Infectious Disease and Vaccination
Examine how infectious diseases interact with the immune system, and why vaccines can help.
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Lab Activity: Seeing the Unseeable!
Find out how molecules are made in the lab, and how researchers can “see” them.
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Student Debate: Drug Affordability and Accessibility
How much should a new drug cost? Explore several viewpoints in this activity.
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Career Connection: Dr. Sato
Learn how Dr. Sato found her calling.
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