by Jennifer Kaelin | May 23, 2023
Bioremediation Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity connects the engineered oil-eating abilities of microbes to large-scale bioremediation efforts. Students will observe microbes break down oil in water over the course of a few days. They will...
by Jessica Allen | Nov 19, 2021
Design a Bacterial Biosensor Device Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary In this activity, students are asked to design a bacterial biosensor device on paper. Students are offered a scenario: they have a choice of two bacterial biosensors (lead and xylene...
by Jessica Allen | Nov 15, 2021
Physarum Chemotaxis (Virtual Experiment) Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity is designed as a virtual experiment into physarum preferences by observing its chemotaxis. The lesson starts with a simple demo, where student predict physarum...
by Jessica Allen | Oct 19, 2021
Intro to Bacterial Biosensors Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This lesson offers students an introduction into biosensors, which is a sensor that uses a living organism or biological components to detect the presence of chemicals. In this activity we...
by Jessica Allen | Oct 15, 2021
Bioethics (Portobello Colegio and the UCSF Biosensor) Return to Lesson Menu Lesson Overview Summary This activity introduces students to ethics and bioethics. Bioethics concerns some of the more difficult dilemmas and decisions facing scientists as science advances,...
