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DrosoPHILA: A Partnership between Scientists and Teachers That Begins in the Lab and Continues into City Schools

April 25, 2023

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET

Join this interactive session as Dr. Kaitlin Laws and Dr. Greg J. Bashaw discuss their paper, “DrosoPHILA: A Partnership between Scientists and Teachers That Begins in the Lab and Continues into City Schools”, with BrainFacts editor, Dr. Kelley Remole. Attendees can submit questions at registration and live during the webinar

Below is the significance statement of the paper published on February 6, 2023, in eNeuro and authored by Kaitlin M. Laws, Ent Natale, Edward A. Waddell, Jamie R. Shuda, and Greg J. Bashaw

Outreach programming creates connections between scientists and their communities while expanding students’ perception of what science entails and who practices it. As such, outreach programming can act as one part of a multipronged approach to diversify the scientific workforce. To build sustainable, effective science outreach curricula, scientists should seek input from both teachers in their communities and experienced outreach educators. Here, we present our outreach program, DrosoPHILA, as a model for such partnerships. By explaining the program’s development and making our supporting materials available, we hope to facilitate the creation of similar programs across different subject areas.

Speakers

Kaitlin Laws, PhD

Kate Laws is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Randolph-Macon College. She previously was an IRACDA postdoctoral fellow in Greg Bashaw’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where she worked on curriculum design and implementation of the DrosoPHILA outreach program. Laws’ main research interests lie in non-neuronal functions for axon guidance receptors. She earned her BS in Biochemistry from Clemson University and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University.

Greg J. Bashaw, PhD

Greg Bashaw is a professor of neuroscience at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Bashaw’s research focuses on assembly of neural circuits in the developing spinal cord using fly and mouse models. In particular, the Bashaw lab investigates conserved mechanisms of axon guidance receptor regulation and signaling. He earned his BA in biology from Brown University, his PhD in Biology at Stanford University and completed postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kelley Remole, PhD

Kelley Remole is the Managing Director of the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale University and serves on the Editorial Board of BrainFacts. She previously worked at Columbia University as the Director of Neuroscience Outreach at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. She received her doctoral degree in Neurobiology and Behavior in 2012 and her Master of Science in Nonprofit Management in 2020, both from Columbia University.

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