DNA Day April 25th
Register your students for a 3 hour practical laboratory experience in the NUI Galway biomedical sciences laboratories! Participants will have the opportunity to practice molecular biology techniques, to learn about DNA structure and function, and to discover how variation in the DNA code underpins human disease.
Open to: Any student studying biology currently in the senior cycle of secondary school
Capacity: 40 students
To apply: Download the registration form, complete it and return by post to: Derek Morris, Discipline of Biochemistry, School of Natural Sciences, by Friday the 17th April. Note: if you are under 18 a parent/guardian will have to sign the form.
Download the registration form here
About International DNA Day (25th April): DNA day celebrates the day on which the structure of DNA was published in the journal Nature in 1953. The deciphering of this structure by James Watson and Francis Crick, with help from X-ray crystallography data from Rosalind Franklin, paved the way for a new era of genomic research and discovery. On this same day in 2003 the Human Genome Project announced that they had sequenced the vast majority of the human genome. You can learn more about DNA and the applications of DNA analysis by liking and following the DNA Day Facebook page.
