- Training, Education and Outreach Activities
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
