Science and Ethics of Genome Editing

The course has been put on hiatus

Check back in fall of 2022 for potential summer 2023 course dates!

Course Description

The course focuses on (i) the CRISPR based adaptive immunity system in bacteria, and (ii) the many ways in which some of the proteins that function in this natural immunity system are being adapted for use in editing plant and animal genomes. In addition, the course will prepare teachers to lead their students in a thoughtful conversation regarding the ethical implications of this powerful new technology.

What do you get?

Each participant in this webinar series will receive a collection of tactile teaching tools including:

3D printed model of Cas9
The Adaptive Immunity Kit
The Cas9 Making the Cut Kit
The Nucleosome Kit
Additional instructional materials developed in this project

These materials will be shipped to each workshop participant in advance of the first webinar session. Each Wednesday evening session will be recorded for viewing by teachers who are unable to participate in a regularly scheduled live Wednesday session.

Application Information

To offset the cost of the physical models and other tactile teaching tools you will receive, we are charging a $250 tuition fee for this webinar series. In addition to the tactile teaching tools, this fee will guarantee your access to all the digital resources related to this topic developed over the past four years.

Because this is an advanced course, we strongly encourage you to have participated in the CBM's introductory Modeling the Molecular World course before applying to this workshop.

A Community of Professional Educators

Teachers in this program will be encouraged to become active participants in a professional community of educators - committed to documenting the impact of their classroom innovations on student learning, and to sharing the results of that education research with others.