Audience
Students
Grade Levels
Grades 9-12
Subject
Life Science
Type
Websites
GeneLab for High Schools (GL4HS) is a four-week intensive training program for rising high school juniors and seniors sponsored by NASA’s Ames Research Center (near Mountain View, California). GL4HS provides students an opportunity to immerse themselves in space life sciences with a specific focus on omics-based bioinformatics research, the science of collecting and analyzing complex biological data such as genetic codes, and computational biology.
During the training program, students work closely with the GL4HS team to learn and/or obtain training in:
- NASA space biology research
- Omics-based research
- Bioinformatics and computational biology methods and techniques to analyze omics data
- Applications of the bioinformatics analyses to NASA Space Biology science
- Development of a competitive team experimental proposal based on analysis of data from the GeneLab Data Repository
- Formal oral presentation skills
- Students will also network and form connections with guest lecturers including university professors and industry experts