KABT BioBlog

Those of you who have followed this blog probably know of my long time fascination with antlions.  If you have a ready source of them, they make a great organism to inspire student generated research.  Today, I’ve run across two excellent photo resources on antlions.  Alex Wild’s Mymercos Blog has exceptional images of an antlion [...]

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While learning about those involved in developing the Synthetic Biology survey that some of you may have taken (June 8th post), I serendipitously navigated to a page at Davidson College that made me aware of the Microarrays MediaBook educational website.  Here is what I read, including the link that I chose to follow…
Another of Malcolm Campbell’s efforts, [...]

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Sure we do! I am proud to announce that Brenda Bott from Shawnee Mission West and Jeff Witters from Olathe South successfully GOT PHAGE in Kansas! Congratulations!
Below, you can see images of the subcultured plaques – the circular fields where their viruses have infected, replicated, and lysed small portions of the lawn of [...]

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Just wanted to spread the word that Baker Wetlands on the south edge of Lawrence has a new website, thanks to Roger Boyd and others. As one of the best and most easily accessed northeast KS wetland sites it is a real testament to the power of restoring hydrology to former cornfields (”past wholesale [...]

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Researchers at Davidson College are looking to learn high school teachers’ perceptions of synthetic biology. If you are a high school biology teacher interested in taking part in a 10 minute survey go to:
http://snap.davidson.edu/sasnell/HS_SynthBio/hs_synth_bio.htm
From their website:
The purpose of this study is to learn more about what high school teachers think about synthetic biology. You may [...]

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KABTers Birding
Getting the perfect picture!
The KABT annual spring fieldtrip is simply an opportunity to learn and interact with fellow biology teachers.  I have learned more biology than you can imagine from simply being around and listening to others!  I cannot overemphasize the importance of learning with others.  You build up your expertise, you build up [...]

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Chip Taylor and crew got some blog time for their recent foray into radiotracking monarch butterflies for short distances. There are some great photos in the blog, and apparently Nat Geo was filming the project for a later program.
http://glimpsesoflawrence.blogspot.com/2009/05/radio-tagging-monarch-butterflies.html
Keep an eye on those milkweed patches. Not only will you soon find those aposematically [...]

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