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I am a microbiologist and molecular biologist turned tenured biotech faculty turned bioinformatics scientist turned entrepreneur. My passion is developing instructional materials for 21st century biology (Digital World Biology).
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October 31, 2007
Category: Chemistry & Biochemistry
When purified, it glows with an unearthly light. You can't go "chemical free" and try to escape it. It's part of our bones and it forms the backbone of our...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:14 AM • 4 Comments •
October 30, 2007
Category: Science education
I missed my chance to get my own DonorsChoose challenge together, but that doesn't mean that you have to miss your chance to contribute and, of course: WIN...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 1:18 PM • 0 Comments •
October 29, 2007
Category: Science culture
What's the difference?
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:37 PM • 10 Comments •
October 28, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
Metagenomics is a field where people interrogate the living world by isolating and sequencing nucleic acids. Since all living things have DNA, and viruses have either DNA or RNA, we...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:24 PM • 0 Comments •
October 27, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
Sequencing the dirt: see how it's done
Posted by Sandra Porter at 7:00 PM • 0 Comments •
October 26, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
We have lots of DNA samples from bacteria that were isolated from dirt. Now it's time to our own metagenomics project and figure out what they are. Our class project...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:20 PM • 0 Comments •
October 25, 2007
Category: Microbiology
Dying bees and DNA sequencing
Posted by Sandra Porter at 12:15 PM • 2 Comments •
October 24, 2007
Category: Bioinformatics
Would you like to have some fun playing with chromatograms and helping our class identify bacteria in the dirt?...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 4:05 PM • 0 Comments •
October 23, 2007
Category: web resources
The NASA Earth observatory has some amazing photos of the wildfires in California. I've put a small version of one image here, but you should go to the NASA site...
Posted by Sandra Porter at 11:13 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: teaching
It's hard to teach bioinformatics when schools work so hard to keep us from using computers....
Posted by Sandra Porter at 2:04 PM • 14 Comments •
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