Community Outreach
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Massey University Open Day
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Biological Sciences Day 2009
Seminar series programme for science teachers
The Institute of Natural Sciences of Massey University Albany offers a series of free seminars open to science teachers from North Shore colleges. In the seminars, our academic staff will discuss recent NCEA Level 3 and Scholarship exam questions and present the relevant background science underpinning the answers to the questions.
The first seminar from the series will be dedicated to physics and will be presented on 25 June 2009. Subsequent seminars will relate to questions in biology (July 23) and chemistry (August 27).
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Dr Beata Dabrowska-Wuester
Metagenomics study: "Discovering the micro-flora of Hot Water Beach: taking the next gen to the next generation".
Dr Justin O’Sullivan and Mr Paul Scott (Mercury Bay Area School) led a group of pre-eminent scientists from the INS (including Dr Andrew Cridge, Dr Peter Deines, Dr Austen Ganley, Dr Lutz Gehlen, Dr John Harrison, Dr Wayne Patrick, Prof. Paul Rainey, Dr Evelyn Sattlegger, and Ph.D. and honours students) and 60 senior high school students from Auckland as they combined forces at the weekend on a field trip to identify what lives within the hot water springs at Hot Water Beach.
The joint expedition led to the collection of heat tolerant micro-organisms from Hot Water Beach springs. The students were then involved with extracting and amplifying the DNA from the samples. The DNA will next be amplified and the samples sent for the sequencing. Organisms within the DNA will then be identified, and using computer programming, the whole process will again be shown to the students involved with the extraction.
For further information contact: j.m.osullivan@massey.ac.nz
