Outreach activity: "Reconstruint el nostre passat evolutiu".
Outreach activity: "Reconstruint el nostre passat evolutiu".
As part of the program "professors i ciència" funded by Fundació Catalunya Caixa, the past 24 and 26 October IBE postdoctoral Researchers Diego Hartasánchez and Elena Gómez coordinated a two day course for school teachers entitled "Reconstruint el nostre passat evolutiu". The activity was a complete succes of attendance and was very well valorated by teachers.
05.11.2012
As part of the Programa Professors i Ciència of Fundació Catalunya Caixa, Diego Hartasánchez and Elena Gómez-Díaz gave a two session course named "Reconstruint el nostre passat evolutiu". 14 middle and high school Science teachers from different schools around Catalonia attended. The objectives of the course where to explain the theory underlying the construction of phylogenetic trees from genetic and genomic sequencing data and to present some didactic means to use phylogenetic trees while teaching Evolution in middle school and high school.