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Outreach Activities

Training, Education, and Outreach

The amphibian Xenopus is an ideal animal model to introduce and educate pre-college and college students as well as teachers to research in Life biomedical Sciences.

The easy accessibility of various life stages including eggs, embryos, tadpoles, metamorphosing froglets and adult frogs, all available in our research resource, provides a unique opportunity to be familiarized with developmental processes and the multiple facets of biology. Science can be fun!

A visit to the Jumping Frog Lab

Collage of pictures from the Lincoln School visit.

Fourth year graduate students Ana Goyos and Thaminda Ramanayake, are giving an introduction on the use of the frog Xenopus laevis for scientific research to middle school students from the Lincoln School (School 22) of Rochester, New York.

Image collage of the Dr. Freddie Thomas School visit.

Students from the Dr. Freddie Thomas High School (teacher: Lisa Swartz) visited our resource facility in May 2008. Our animal technician Dave Albright (upper left) shows the students how to feed frogs. Tina Nedelkovska (4th year graduate student, upper right and lower left) and Ana Goyos (5th year graduate student, lower right) introduce students to the biology of amphibians.

Middle School Visit 2009

Undergraduate Research Exposition - April 24th, 2009

Collage of pictures from the Undergraduate Research Exposition

 

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