The Petersson laboratory is committed to community involvement and stimulating students toward a love of science. We will visit some classrooms directly, conduct activities at local science fairs, and reach out to others online.
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High school students admitted to the Penn LENS program can work in the lab on cutting edge research, mentored by a lab member. . |
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Lab members have demonstrated the principles of fluorescent labeling and protein folding at Philly Materials Day since 2016, attended by hundreds of areas families with an interest in chemistry and materials science. |
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Meet the lab! See videos of lab members performing techniques used in our research to purify, label, and characterize proteins. We also post videos with brief explanations of our latest publications. |
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Proteins and the chemical, biological, and physical techniques used to study their structure and movement can be very complex. Here are some of the educational tools we have developed and links to websites and tools from other scientists and educators. |
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Penn Summer Chemistry Research Academy The lab guided high school students in the Chemistry Research Academy Program through a series of activities where they learned about methods for synthetic protein labeling, fluorescence energy transfer and how it can be used to study proteins, as well as computational modeling of proteins. |
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Science Olympiad at the University of Pennsylvania (SOUP) Undergraduate members of the lab have helped in organizing a high school Science Olympiad Invitational tournament at Penn, which brings over 650 motivated students interested in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to campus.
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Prof. Petersson and the graduate students visit Philadelphia area schools to demonstrate some of the techniques used in the laboratory and to talk about the importance of studying protein folding. |
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