On April 24, 2003, scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced that they had completed the sequencing of the human genome, 50 years to the day that Nobel Prize winners, James Watson and Francis Crick published the molecular structure of the DNA double helix. The human genome is the complete set of DNA instruction found in all 10 trillion cells of our bodies. The decoding of the 3 billion DNA letters of the human genome is the result of one of the most ambitious scientific projects of all time, comparable to going to the moon and splitting the atom. In the words of Frances Collins, Director of NHGRI, “The Human Genome Project has been an amazing adventure into ourselves, to understand our own DNA instruction book, the shared inheritance of all humankind.”

This power point presentation will lead high school students from the realization of genetics by early man to the decoding of DNA and how the Human Genome Project came to be, and what it means in our lives.

Cost for full day program is $500 plus travel expenses. 
Several area schools can arrange for week long residencies to share and split travel expenses.
Please call to discuss how to arrange for a  multi-school residency in your district.