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From
School to University
5th international workshop on
secondary school biology education
11–13 May 2006, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
Organised by the European Molecular Biology Organization, with practical
experiments organised by the European Learning Lab for the Life Sciences
(EMBL), and Explo-Heidelberg.
This years workshop focused on the critical transition from secondary
school to university. The following questions were addressed: what knowledge
and skills do school-leavers need in order to embark on a university
degree in the biosciences, and later turn into good researchers? What
knowledge do they have to have, and more importantly, what analytical
thinking must they develop at school?
International Workshop on Secondary
School Biology Education, 11 – 13 May 2006, Heidelberg, Germany
Programme
Thursday, 11 May
13:15 Buses from IBIS hotel to EMBL/EMBO
13:30 Registrations in the Operon Foyer
14:00 Welcome and introduction: Andrew Moore,
Science & Society Programme, EMBO
14:10 Keynote scientific talk:
Epigenetics & Chromatin Dynamics, Geneviève Almouzni,
EMBO member, Nuclear Dynamics and Genome Plasticity, Institut Marie
Curie, Paris, France
14:50 Session I: Expectations
of universities and students; the European landscape
Chair: Andrew Moore, Science & Society Programme,
EMBO
15:00 Education talk 1:
Some facts and figures to set the background 
Andrew Moore, Science & Society Programme, EMBO
15:30 Education talk 2:
Transition from high school
to university: the experience of Cus-Mi-Bio, Italy
Mariolina Tenchini, Dept. of Biology and Genetics
for Medical Sciences, University of Milan, Italy
16:00 Coffee break and exhibition area viewing
16:30 Panel session:
Dean Madden, National Centre for Biotechnology Education,
UK
Peter Csermely, Dept. of Medical Chemistry, Semmelweis
University, Hungary
Expectations of universities
and students; Spain landscape
Josep M. Fernandez Novell, Dept. of Biochemistry
and Molecular Biology, University of Barcelona, Spain
Key issues in the current
delivery of ‘A’ level Biology in the UK
Elizabeth Hodgeson, Greenhead College, UK
17:30 Group photo
17:45 Coffee break and exhibition area viewing
18:30 Special evening event, organised by the National
Centre for Biotechnology Education
19:30 Dinner in the EMBL canteen
21:30 Buses back to IBIS hotel
Friday, 12 May
8:40 Buses from IBIS hotel to EMBL/EMBO
9:00 Keynote scientific talk:
From molecules to ecosystems: predicting function using computational
biology, Peer Bork, EMBO member, and senior scientist, EMBL Heidelberg,
Germany
9:40 Session 2: Responding to demands
and culturing curiosity: Curriculum design, teaching plans, teaching
methods
Chair: John Schollar, National Centre for Biotechnology Education,
UK
9:50 Education talk 1:
Balancing skills and science content
in advanced level biology
Angela Hall, Science Learning Centre London, UK
10:20 Education talk 2:
National core curriculum and
biology education in Finnish secondary schools
Anna Uitto, Dept. of Applied Sciences of Education,
University of Helsinki, Finland
10:50 Coffee break and exhibition area viewing
11:30 Panel session:
“Biology can be learned
!”
Jürgen Langlet, Association for the promotion
of mathematic and natural science teaching (MNU), Germany
From difficulties to creative
teaching
Giulia Realdon, ANISN (National Association of Natural
Sciences Teachers), Italy
Education Strategy at the Biochemical
Society
Hannah Baker, Biochemical Society, UK
Teaching methods, plans and
curriculum design
Meryem Dogan, Tev Inanc Turkes High School, Turkey
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Session 3: Putting
it into practice: best examples, and positive developments in teaching
and teacher training
Chair: Thomas Wendt, ExploHeidelberg, Germany
14:10 Education talk 1:
Are you tertiary ready?
Eshel Ophir, The Joseph Meyerhoff Youth Center for
Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
14:40 Education Talk 2:
Creating and supporting opportunities
for novel molecular biology teaching in schools
Richard Harwood, Aiglon College, Switzerland
15:10 Coffee break and exhibition area viewing
15:45 Panel session:
Claudia Girnth Diamba, Association of Danish Biologists,
Denmark
Teaching of biology ; which
goal ?
Claude Béguin, Cycle d'Orientation du Canton
de Genève, Collège de la Gradell, Switzerland
Joanna Lilpop, Science School Festival, Poland
BSS - Biology Support Services
Mary Lee, National Biology Support Service, Ireland
16:45 Practical information on Saturday experiments
17:00 End of day: free evening - Buses back to IBIS
hotel
Saturday 13 May:
8:30 Buses from hotel to EMBL and to ExploHeidelberg
9:00 Practical experiments:
EMBL/ELLS (the practicals will be done at the EMBL):
1) Expression and purification of protein
2) Watching genes turn on and off
3) When one cell makes two
4) Mosquitos, malaria and mankind
15:30 Bus to ExploHeidelberg
EXPLO-Heidelberg (the practical will be done at the Explo- Heidelberg
lab in town, close to the German Cancer Research Center):
5) Detection of ß-galactosidase by immuno dot blot and PCR
16:00 Farewell aperitif at Explo-Heidelberg
17:00 End and bus to Heidelberg main train station
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