BioTrek Workshops Theme: "Among the most precious things universities have to share are the ways researchers view and do science as a way of exploring the unknown through experiment."

1. Exploring "What is Biotechnology?"
2. Introduction to Experimentation:
• The Puzzle of the Color-changing Pencils
• The Paradox of the DNA Tube
• Which Makes Better Bubbles: Skim Milk or Whole?
• Shaking cream into butter — Is shaking really necessary?
• Thomas Chamberlin, "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses"
3. Introduction to Experimentation: Replication & Randomization
• Using Rennet to Make Milk Stiff
4. Beginning Experiments in DNA:
• Extracting DNA from Wheat Germ(.pdf)
• Analyzing DNA from Salmon
• Measuring and moving liquids with micropipettes
• DNA as Videotape
• Human DNA Model
• DNA Fountain: Double-stranded, complementary, helical--and software names for DNA bases
5. Gel Electrophoresis:
• Alien Blood: Forensics and Electrophoresis
• ImprovElectrophoresis: Ingenuity and Improvisation
6. Biotechnology and Food: Personal Choices and Public Policies
• "Wholesome, Holistic, and Holy"
7. BioTrek Tour of UWBC Facilities:
• DNA Sequencing
• DNA Synthesis
• Gene Expression Center
8. BioTrek Tours of Other UW Campus Science Sites:
• Microbial Sciences Building
• Babcock Hall Dairy Store
• D. C. Smith Greenhouse
• Allen Centennial Gardens
• Dairy Cattle Research
• Old Dairy Barn: A Cradle of the Discovery of Vitamins
9. Grandparents University
• Grandparents University