EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS

Click here to view photos from the 2009 Poster Session for HHMI, NSF REU and NSF RET.

Click here to view photos from the 2009 IBB Science Academy of South Texas (SAST) Summer Academy for High School.

Click here to view photos from the 2009 IBB Milby/YES Summer Academy for High School. 

2009 HHMI Bionanotechnology Undergraduate Program

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The HHMI interns attend their orientation breakfast.

Dr. Junghae Suh presents a two-part lecture to the HHMI interns on "The Cell as a Machine."

Dr. Melissa McHale speaks to the HHMI interns about her Cell Culture Laboratory.

Dr. McHale follows up with hands-on instructions in her lab.

The HHMI interns then get the chance for some hands-on experience in Dr. McHale's lab.

An "Overview of Cancer Research" is presented by Dr. Jennifer West, Chair of Bioengineering and Past Director of IBB.

The HHMI interns share a field trip to MD Anderson Cancer Center with the NSF REU interns.

The HHMI interns share some downtime with the NSF REU interns at one of the monthly Friday socials.

The Director of IBB, Dr. Yousif Shamoo, has lunch with the HHMI interns Katie Douglas and Daniel Hoff and their mentors.

HHMI intern Darren Seibert meets his mentor, Brian Kirk, at the faculty advisor/mentor lunch.

The HHMI interns are given a lab safety training course.

Dr. Jason Hafner presents the HHMI weekly lunch seminar on "Biological Applications of gold nanoparticles."

Dr. Jennifer West introduces the HHMI interns to the "Bionano Journal Club," where each intern will give a talk on an assigned article.

Part of the HHMI intern program is to meet the SAST high school interns, accomplished here at the SAST welcome dinner.

Dr. Jeffrey Hartgerink presents the HHMI weekly lunch seminar on "Self-assembly of beta-sheet nanofibers."

Dr. Stacey Kalovidouris, Executive Dir. of IBB, lectures both the HHMI and NSF REU interns on "Preparing a scientific poster."

Dr. Rob Raphael presents the HHMI weekly lunch seminar on "How hearing happens."

Dr. Jennifer West presents the HHMI weekly lunch seminar on "Nanotechnology for Cancer Diagnosis and Therapy."

Dr. Michael Diehl presents the HHMI weekly lunch seminar on "Dissecting the Macromolecular Hierarchy of Intracellular Transport."

The HHMI interns (along with the NSF REU interns) were treated to a day at the Houston Museum of Natural Science and Cockrell Butterfly Center.

Click here to view photos from the 2007 & 2008 HHMI Bionanotechnology Undergraduate Program.
Click here to view photos from the 2007 & 2008 IBB Summer Academy for High School Students.