The ISU Office of Biotechnology's booth is number 164, located in the Rheinlander Gallery on the second level of the exhibit area. The University of Iowa and the Iowa Department of Economic Development also will be represented at BIO 98 at exhibits adjacent to the ISU booth. If you know teachers of fourth graders through adults who would like to incorporate biotechnology into their classes but need some confidence-building lab training, please tell them about ISU's biotechnology summer workshops. The workshops, held on the Iowa State University campus in Ames, are packed with hands-on training in biotechnology lab techniques such as DNA extraction, amplification, transformation, fingerprinting, recombinant DNA techniques, and more. There are workshops at both beginning and advanced levels.
Educators can earn graduate or staff development credits for most of the workshops.
Workshop cost depends on the type and number of credits desired. Class size is limited to 20 per workshop. The registration deadline is June 5, 1998. The National Institutes of Health have awarded more than a million dollars for a five-year project to investigate the role of two enzymes in chemical reactions that regulate blood glucose and convert it into energy. Tracking Down Crop Genes with Hopping DNA Researchers have isolated the DNA of a sorghum transposon, a finding that could be helpful in isolating agronomically important traits in sorghum and other crops.