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5/23/16 - 2015 JHU Poster Session

Scholars representing Maryland schools presented their findings at the 2015 MBGR @ JHU Poster Session conducted on Sunday, May 22, 2016 in Mudd Hall on the Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. Over 200 MBGR high school teachers and students, parents, guardians, University faculty and project staff attended.  Congratulations on the accomplishments made by all of the students and teachers involved in the 2015 program.  A .pdf of Dr. Vershon's presentation can be found here.

The first academic meeting of the 2015-2016 WSSP program will be held for teachers only at 4:00 PM on 9/24/15 in Rm 1001 of the Waksman Institute.  We will discuss changes to the program for central New Jersey high schools associated with the WSSP.  Supplies and equipment will be distributed to schools to conduct the project during the academic year. 

Several schools created physical models of proteins that are homologous to the duckweed proteins coded by the genes they identified. See the SMART Protein Structure Modeling link for more information and pictures on the structures that were made for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 Poster Forums. We thank Tim Herman, Margaret Franzen, and Mark Hoelzer from the Milwaukee School of Engineering Center for Biomolecular Modeling for creating the models with the scripts generated by the students.

The WSSP has been running for over 23 years.  Over that time period more than 150 schools and 7000 students have participated in the program during  summer institutes held at Rutgers, John Hopkins, University of Texas-Austin, or Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories and/or at their high schools during the academic year.  To help us strengthen the program and obtain funding needed to continue the WSSP, we are asking our alumni to take a survey so that you can tell us a little bit about what you have been up to since you graduated from high school!

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