Welcome to NEB TV. Today
I'm joined by Penny Devoe from our marketing department.
Hey, Penny. Hey, Deana. And we're talking
about NEB's course support program
Now, Penny, what does NEB offer to teaching
labs? Sure.
In addition to the vast amount of educational
support material we have available on the web
site, we have offer a course
support program.
So any B offers a list of our most
popular products free of charge
to teaching institutions such as community
colleges, high schools and teaching
labs. That's great. And how long has it been
doing this?
No one's been able to pinpoint an exact date,
but we estimate about thirty to thirty five
years, if not more.
NEB has always had a
commitment to advancing life sciences,
And what better way to do this than
to support the teaching labs that are teaching our scientists
of the next generation?
That's true.
Can you share some examples of institutions that
had taken advantage of this program? Sure,
NEB provides free reagents for the molecular
biology summer workshop that we host at
Smith College every summer.
This is a two week course where non
scientists can gain a wide array of
molecular biology experience.
We have also supported the Gloucester Marine
Institute
and Bio Teach,
a life sciences education program
offered through the Massachusetts Biotechnology
Education.
That's great, and today we'll hear from some other groups
that have taken advantage of this program.
First, we will hear from Natalie Kuldell, who
is the founder and executive director at
BioBuilder.
Then we will speak with Vic Sivanathan,
a program officer for the Science Education
Alliance, which is a program at the Howard
Hughes Medical Institute.
NEB donates a significant amount of reagents
to the Amgen Biotech Experience.
We will hear from one of the teachers who utilizes
this program to expose her high school students
to lab work.
And lastly, we will talk about the iGem competition
and hear from a couple of teams that participated.
But Penny, before we get to that, can you tell us how viewers
can apply for the program?
Anyone who is interested can visit our
Course Support and Reagent Donation page
to learn more.
There, you can submit an inquiry
for more information, and we will quickly get
back to you with more details.
And, what if I'm an educator outside of the U.S.? Can
I participate?
Yes. In that case, they would need to
contact their local distributor or subsidiary.
And again, that information can be accessed
via the course support page.
Great, then let's get started.
The NEB Course Support helps the ABE
program to provide a molecular
biology experience to thousands
of students and teachers across the
U.S. and internationally each year. We
provide high level of equipment to
students that really need the constant
influx of re agents that are provided by
any B to continue to reach these
numbers of students. The consumables
on restriction enzymes we use, buffers,
etcetera from anybody, have allowed us to
access for more students,
allowing them to learn the techniques,
experience the lab's themselves and
feel like scientists. And exposing students
to real science
is really important for developing
and creating minds that stay
interested in science.
It changes the approach
to science in that
it's a discovery process. We get to
learn more science as we teach more science,
and then bringing an engineering allows
us to apply the work that we're doing
to problems that matter to the students, most
of all. Teaching science the way science
is actually practiced
can be a very positive and motivating
force for students in the sciences.
So, the resources that NEB's providing
enables all institution types
and by proxy, all students
to engage in research.
Anybody is essentially making recent experiences
an equitable practice for engaging students
in the sciences.
when we engage with students who have gone through
the sea for ages. Program. The question
"What are all of these genes that we're annotating
what are all of these genes that were in it dating
actually doing? "
It's clear to us
that the SEA-PHAGES program is training
students to ask these important questions,
and they're eager to get to work on them. It's
important to always continue asking questions.
Questions do not end at the end of the course.
We always have new, exciting things to
explore. So research experience
can positively influence a student's decision
to remain in the sciences. Every student
that we have in our classrooms will someday be
dialoguing about important things in
medicine and science that these programs support.
But I want to create lifelong learners, so
we're really thankful for all of the things
that NEB does to support community
and education around molecular
science.
iGEM is the International Genetically
Manufactured Machine Competition, which
inspires young scientists in the field of
synthetic biology.
NEB offers a selection of free reagents
toe all registered teams
Recently, NEB invited several
iGEM teams to our campus in Ipswich.
We had a great day of learning and tours,
culminating in a seminar by our Nobel
laureate, Rich Roberts.
Hi NEB TV. We are Team
Tec-Chihuahua from Mexico. We are
UC Davis iGEM Team. This is the University
of Tennessee by Jim Team were on
the United States Air Force Academy iGEM Team.
We are Team Aix Marseille, and
We are working on the breaking box project,
so the project's aim is to develop a
trap to treat bedbugs infestations. We
used the Monarch DNA purification kit,
and the modern are clean up kit
And, we used the restriction enzymes
and the T4 ligase.
this year, we developed a Malian cell base
by Osei for detecting physiological stress.
The products from NEB we used are Q5
five. Political race expert
Speed ICO. I could
go on.
Restriction enzymes, polymerases, and
much more.
We fight against two diseases
of bees, American and European
for Brooke.
And this is ceases affect the larva
and
and they make like a collapsing
the whole colony.
So we produce antimicrobial pep
in E. coli to boost
immune system, and so the larvae can
defend against these deadly diseases.
And we're generating tools to bioremediate
Mediate halogen aided compounds
in the environment. And we would like to
thank NEB for providing us restriction
enzymes and overall, making synthetic
biology
easier for undergraduate students trying
to get into the field. So thank you.
Penny. Thanks so much for joining us today. Thanks
for having me.
I personally love this program, so I'm really
excited that we get to share this information with
everyone. Can you just remind us one more time
what people can do to apply for the core support
Program? Sure. Anyone that's
interested can visit the website below,
fill out a form, and we'll be in touch soon.
Great. Thanks so much for joining us
today. And as always, if you have any
suggestions for future episodes, please let us
know.