Summer Research Laboratories

July 24th - August 4th
Monday-Friday (10 days)
9 am - 3 pm
Northwestern University's School of Education and Biology laboratories (Evanston)
Northwestern University Hospital (Chicago)

The Summer Research Laboratories will deepen your understanding of the concepts you will teach using the Disease Detectives curriculum through a series of hands-on laboratory experiences that will prepare you to assist your students in their investigations.

•  Work in the university's tissue culture labs to design, conduct, and analyze the results of experiments with embryonic chick heart cells and then investigate the cells' homeostatic requirements for function and survival. Your students will conduct a similar investigation using a computerized virtual laboratory.

•  Inquire into cardiology methods and data in the Disease Detectives curriculum by testing the hypothesis that chest pain in symptomatic patients is caused by heart cells not getting their homeostatic requirements.   Inquire into the basic biology behind echocardiograms, nuclear stress tests, and angiography at Northwestern medical school and explore what these tests measure using a variety of lab models.   Your students will investigate the same concepts by accessing and using this cardiology data in the Village Park Mystery software provided with the DD curriculum.