Elementary school teachers are welcome to send e-mail to the newsletter with questions related to teaching science. Each day the questions will be collated and sent by e-mail to all participating elementary school teachers and scientists. All participants are encouraged to post answers which will be sent to the group the same way. If you are an elementary school teacher or scientist, you can participate. In selecting our core journal article for study, we have added short references which help describe the signal hypothesis first proposed by Blobel together with Sabatini in 1971.
Additional references bring the work into the realm of public understanding.
Another is an animation which, to paraphrase Dr. Blobel, sums up in 3 minutes what it took 30 years to accomplish. The course will help you analyze the paper for content, give you skills to help you gain meaning from the text and figures, and learn how a research article is structured. We know that you will gain a healthy respect for the hard work inherent in the scientific process. In anticipating Rockefeller University's 2001 Centennial, we hope that you also will gain an appreciation for the magnitude of the human effort beginning with the birth of the field of cell biology in the laboratories of Claude, Porter and Palade, the creative thinking that led to the signal hypothesis, and the long journey to fill in the details. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read the following documents.