{"id":841,"date":"2018-06-28T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T14:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanogaster.ibb-csic.info\/gonzalez_lab\/?p=841"},"modified":"2018-11-09T16:44:34","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:44:34","slug":"841-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanogaster.ibb-csic.info\/gonzalez_lab\/841-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach and Fly: a course for high school teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fourteen secondary school teachers from Castilla-La Mancha, Valencia, Andaluc\u00eda, Arag\u00f3n and Catalunya participated on June the 28th<\/sup>\u00a0in the course\u00a0Teach and Fly<\/em><\/a>, which was organised by the Gonzalez lab. The course was aimed at providing these teachers some training on genomics and sequencing and editing techniques \u2015CRISPR\u2015 and most especially to encourage them to get involved in the citizen science project\u00a0Melanogaster: catch the fly!<\/em><\/a>. Within this project, researchers, communicators, teachers, secondary school students and laypeople work hand in hand to find out how organisms adapt to changing environments. They do this by taking the fruit fly,\u00a0Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>, as model organism.<\/p>\n

The project kicked off in 2016. Since then, 60 students from Granada and Ciudad Real have sampled and classified fruit flies, and sent them to IBE so that its researchers can sequence them. \u201cWe hope that the course\u00a0Teach and fly<\/em>\u00a0will enable us extend the network of secondary schools involved in the project and thus the sampling points\u201d, coordinator of\u00a0Melanogaster: catch the fly!\u00a0<\/em>Josefa Gonz\u00e1lez says.<\/p>\n

Sampling is done in orchards by students, who catch the flies with an entomological aspirator. \u201cSampling is not a limiting factor anymore; thanks to their work, now we have samples from more places than we would have if we did the sampling ourselves\u201d, states Gonz\u00e1lez, who leads the\u00a0Evolutionary and Functional Genomics<\/a>\u00a0lab at IBE. \u201cMoreover, by involving schools and the laypeople in our research, they get to know the cutting edge scientific research carried out in the country\u201d, she adds.<\/p>\n

The genomic sequences of the fruit flies are shared in international database. Therefore, data obtained within this project benefits all the labs in the European network\u00a0European Drosophila Population Genomics Consortium (DrosEU)<\/a>\u00a0and the whole scientific community. As a result of such a collaborative work is the identification of six viruses that affect the fruit fly, one of which was found in Ciudad Real: the Tomelloso virus.<\/p>\n

The citizen science project\u00a0Melanogaster: catch the fly!<\/em>\u00a0of the Gonz\u00e1lez lab and the science outreach platfrom La Ci\u00e8ncia Al Teu M\u00f3n is funded by the\u00a0Fundaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola para la Ciencia y la Tecnolog\u00eda (FECYT)<\/a>\u00a0and the European Research Council (ERC).<\/p>\n

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Adapt or die<\/strong><\/p>\n

Survival in changing environments, antibiotic resistance or chemotherapy can be explained with adaptation, a key process in evolutionary biology which is to date a very poorly understood process. \u201cSince Spain is the only European continental region with dry areas, data gathered in\u00a0Melanogaster: catch the fly!<\/em>\u00a0will be very relevant to study how organisms adapt to climate change\u201d, says Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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