The Daffodil DNA Project Teacher Training Day 2021

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Description

Provided experimental, sequencing and bioinformatics training to school teachers as part of the Daffodil DNA Project. A collaborative school-based research project involving secondary schools funded by the Royal Society.
The aim is to extract and sequence the chloroplast genome of various daffodil cultivars. Each school will sequence three different daffodil plants using Oxford Nanopore MinION. J
The project is a collaboration between the University of Dundee Education and Social Work, the University of Dundee Botanic Garden, the University of Dundee School of Life Sciences, the Royal Society, the James Hutton Institute as well as schools across Scotland supported by Jon Hale, a teacher on the Island of Jersey.
Period11 Nov 2021
Event typeWorkshop
LocationDundee, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Daffodil
  • Royal Society Partnership
  • School research

UN SDGs

This activity contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals