🧬 Hands-on science for Middle School and High School students! 📍Brooklyn | Long Island | Sleepy Hollow, NY | Wayne, NJ
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DNA Learning Center retweeted
Congratulations to DNA Learning Center (@DNALC) Executive Director David Micklos for receiving the 2026 Genetics Education Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers (@NABT_News)! This award recognizes the innovative hands-on science education programs happening at the DNALC every day.
Micklos founded the DNALC in 1988 as the world’s first science center devoted to public genetics education. Since then, it has transformed into a leading global provider of hands-on science experiences for students and training for teachers.
Learn more about the DNALC curricula, experiments, and extended research projects that more than 500,000 pre-college students part in each year.
cshl.edu/david-micklos-recei…
#InspiringCuriosity #ScienceEducation #ScienceMakesLifeBetter
DNA Learning Center retweeted
To understand how the brain forms memories, feelings and behaviours has long been a dream for researchers.
Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to optogenetics, which makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain.
This method is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Day 3 of "Barcode the Bay" DNA Ecology & Field work camp for students in @PortJeffNY included more sample collection & documentation. Different beach VERY different results! Tomorrow lab work! #LISEC @DNALC @STANYSorg @NYSMTP
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Thank you to @DNALC for supporting #citizenscience -just picked up supplies & equipment so we can run our 1st ever DNA Barcoding & Eco Camp @ The LI Seaport & Ecology Center in @PortJeffNY -Next wk local students will get lots of hands on science experience! @NYSMTP @STANYSorg
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Another INCREDIBLE DAY @DNALC this year's DNA Barcode Symposium. Hundreds of SS across LI, including Shelter Island, presented their original DNA projects & shared ideas! @NYSMTP @STANYSorg
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.
We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.
Thread + link below.
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Thanks @DNALC for hosting us & engaging our students in hands on learning! 🙌
#ALotToSeeAtAO3 🎶
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DNA Learning Center retweeted
A love for science might be in our 8th grade scholar artists' DNA! 🧬
#AO3 8th graders took a trip downtown to explore how DNA really works & got to participate in some DNA sampling! 🔬
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DNA Learning Center retweeted
BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system: go.nasa.gov/48MTu9i
More on the study led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of @TohokuUniPR⤵️
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Today, on Shelter Island, we completed our first ever DNA SEQUENCING experiment! @oxfordnanopore 16s Barcoding -culminating 2 years of student work hopefully confirming PCR results (watch this space) we had lots of mistakes, so maybe wait for trial 2 @NYSMTP @DNALC @STANYSorg
DNA Learning Center retweeted
CSHL summer Courses are intense—15 hours a day of lectures & labs. But every August, students blow off steam in the Plate Race, a 40+ year tradition down Bungtown Road. cshl.edu/videos/plate-race-2…
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Want to barcode the bay? If you're in Port Jefferson @portjeffpatch at the Farmers market, ck out the #LISEC education table @ the "Quick & Dirty Boat Build" Tons of STUDENT projects! Oyster Shell Recycling, DNA Barcoding @DNALC & Microplastics @nyseagrant @NYSMTP @STANYSorg
DNA Learning Center retweeted
We are Powering Africa's Bioscience Revolution and thanks to our Stellar Partners!
#DNAExplained #sciencefordevelopment #DNALCNigeriadaily
DNA Learning Center retweeted
TODAY🚨 Join us at 1pm EDT to hear from 2025 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recipient @JasonWilliamsNY to explore how the @CSHL DNA Learning Center tools and networks help bring DNA sequencing into the classroom.
Register now: buff.ly/C5GuZZF
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Today, LE students learned about DNA gel electrophoresis at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab DNA Learning Center! There is no DNAing how much fun our students had and how much they learned today! 🧬 @IslandtreesMMS @DNALC
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Join 2025 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recipient @JasonWilliamsNY to explore how @CSHL is bringing genome sequencing to everyday science education.
📅 July 10
🕐 1:00–2:00 p.m. EDT
🔗Learn more about this lecture & register now: buff.ly/ULT8l9f
DNA Learning Center retweeted
I used to do S³⁵ DNA polyacrylamide gel (dark room developed film) sequencing by hand (>30 years ago) which took WEEKS, to go from bug to a DNA seq & now thanks to the "Summer of Nanopore" @DNALC I went from extraction to DNA seq in HOURS @NYSMTP @STANYSorg @oxfordnanopore
DNA Learning Center retweeted
Starting the Summer off right w INCREDIBLE SCIENCE! Today was the first day of the "Summer of Nanopore DNA Sequencing" @ Cold Spring Harbor @DNALC Can't wait to take HS Student DNA projects to the next level & beyond! So many projects -so little time! @STANYSorg @NYSMTP
