Biotechnology & Coronavirus Webinar

The One Kit Wonder: Using Modeling to Teach Biotechnology Concepts

Diane Sigalas, MEd, Livingston High School Your students will go from the blank-stare-wall state-of-mind to understanding the science of PCR, Sanger Sequencing and restriction enzymes when actively modeling these processes with the Biotechnology Kit^©. Then launch into applications in diagnostics, genetics and forensics. Enrich in-class or distance learning with NGSS, AP or IB consistent lessons.

From Biotechnology to a Coronavirus Vaccine

Tim Herman, PhD, Director, Center for BioMolecular Modeling Learn about the amazing advances in biotechnology over the past 50 years – and how they have prepared researchers to create coronavirus vaccines. Within one year, researchers used biotechnology tools to sequence a new viral genome, solve the 3D structure of one of its key proteins, and developed a vaccine that will produce antibodies to inactivate that protein. Isn’t science amazing? Receive a Nucleotide Student Modeling Pack^© with your registration.

Session Resources

• Webinar Slides PDF
• Webinar Slides PowerPoint
• Wired article - A Wisconsin City Experiments With a Faster, DIY Covid-19 Test
• Katalin Kariko New York Times profile
• Katalin Kariko CNN profile
• Incorporation of Pseudouridine Into mRNA Yields Superior Nonimmunogenic Vector With Increased Translational Capacity and Biological Stability
• Cell Paint Contest
• David Baker - 5 Challenges We Could Solve by Designing New Proteins
• Nature article - Quadrivalent influenza nanoparticle vaccines induce broad protection
• Cell article - Elicitation of Potent Neutralizing Antibody Responses by Designed Protein Nanoparticle Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2

3D Molecular Designs' Products

• Biotechnology Kit
• Nucleotide Student Modeling Pack
• Coronavirus Models
• Antibody Student Modeling Pack

Free 3D Molecular Designs' Resources

• Free Biotechnology Kit Teacher Resources
• Free video and modeling series The Science of Coronavirus
• Free Nucleotide Student Modeling Pack Resources
• Free Antibody Student Modeling Pack Resources