DNA Learning Center

🧬 Hands-on science for Middle School and High School students!
📍Brooklyn | Long Island | Sleepy Hollow, NY | Wayne, NJ

[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory @CSHL]

Congratulations to DNA Learning Center (@DNALC) Executive Director David Micklos for receiving the 2026 Genetics Education Award from the National Association of Biology Teachers (@NABT_News)! This award recognizes the innovative hands-on science education programs happening at the DNALC every day.

Micklos founded the DNALC in 1988 as the world’s first science center devoted to public genetics education. Since then, it has transformed into a leading global provider of hands-on science experiences for students and training for teachers. 

Learn more about the DNALC curricula, experiments, and extended research projects that more than 500,000 pre-college students part in each year.

https://t.co/rdkWlxU87X

#InspiringCuriosity #ScienceEducation #ScienceMakesLifeBetter

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

To understand how the brain forms memories, feelings and behaviours has long been a dream for researchers.

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to optogenetics, which makes it possible to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells in a living brain.

This method is now being used in laboratories around the world to reveal the brain’s mysteries.

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Ready to paint with living bacteria? Join us Sat, Oct 3 (10am-12pm) in Wayne, NJ for Saturday DNA!: Let It Glow! Kids aged 10+ will extract glowing proteins & create agar art to submit to the national ASM competition!

Tickets: https://t.co/4YaKFOzgsH

[Daniel Williams @willida25]

Day 3 of "Barcode the Bay" DNA Ecology & Field work camp for students in @PortJeffNY included more sample collection & documentation. Different beach VERY different results! Tomorrow lab work! #LISEC @DNALC @STANYSorg @NYSMTP

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

What happens when science and art collide? Join us for Saturday DNA! Petri Picasso for a hands-on Bio-ART workshop with @StonyBrookU's iGEM team. Paint petri dishes with fluorescent bacteria and watch them glow!

Aug 15 | 2–4 PM | Ages 11–14

Register: https://t.co/YUGpNWElUf

[Daniel Williams @willida25]

Thank you to @DNALC for supporting #citizenscience -just picked up supplies & equipment so we can run our 1st ever DNA Barcoding & Eco Camp @ The LI Seaport & Ecology Center in @PortJeffNY -Next wk local students will get lots of hands on science experience! @NYSMTP @STANYSorg

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Highlights from the 2025–26 Barcode Long Island Symposium at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

This year, 328 students and 24 mentors presented the results of 106 unique research projects. Congratulations to all the student researchers on completing and presenting their projects!

[Daniel Williams @willida25]

Another INCREDIBLE DAY @DNALC this year's DNA Barcode Symposium. Hundreds of SS across LI, including Shelter Island, presented their original DNA projects & shared ideas! @NYSMTP @STANYSorg

[Kenneth Loi @kenjmloi]

Excited to share our discovery of a new programmable RNA-guided DNA-targeting system hiding inside bacteriophages that predates CRISPR.

We call it VIPR (Viral Interference Programmable Repeat), and it uses an entirely new logic to find its targets.

Thread + link below.

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Real-time DNA sequencing is coming to a classroom near you.

The DNA Learning Center is hosting free nanopore sequencing workshops for educators this summer across 5 locations. $300 stipend, travel funding available.

Apply now: https://t.co/RqCIxUaowx

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Level up your research skills this Spring Break! Our new PREsearch course (April 6–10) is a 5-day deep dive into the life of a researcher. Learn how to:

🧫 Cultivate Bacteria
🧪 Test Chemicals
📊 Design Experiments
🔬Use Lab Tools

Learn more: https://t.co/NDnIr3U0rR

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Congratulations to DNALC Assistant Director Jason Williams for being elected an AAAS Fellow https://t.co/cYeUJvpiXW

[M.S. 936 Arts Off 3rd @ArtsOff3rd]

Thanks @DNALC for hosting us & engaging our students in hands on learning! 🙌

#ALotToSeeAtAO3 🎶

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[M.S. 936 Arts Off 3rd @ArtsOff3rd]

A love for science might be in our 8th grade scholar artists' DNA! 🧬

#AO3 8th graders took a trip downtown to explore how DNA really works & got to participate in some DNA sampling! 🔬

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[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Free Educator Workshop: Nanopore Sequencing for Student Research.

Earn CTLEs and learn how to bring portable DNA sequencing to your classroom. Join us at 9:30am-3:00pm on April 18 (Brooklyn), April 25 (Long Island), or May 16 (Sleepy Hollow).

Register: https://t.co/gHVXwOryVj

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

The recording of our DNA Subway 2.0 virtual demonstration is now live.

Watch Jason Williams' tour of the new interface and demonstrate the expanded Blue Line capabilities, including practical steps for integrating the platform into your teaching.

https://t.co/igeNyPbfIV

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Tonight at 6:30 PM ET!

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Register for the upcoming Science Technology & Research Scholars (STARS) Virtual Fair on 3/3, at 6:30 PM ET to learn more about our free, two-week summer program for high school students in NYC and Long Island.

Register: https://t.co/Q63osxs5Kw
More info: https://t.co/mswF4U98bU

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Today is the last day to take advantage of early bird pricing for 2026 science summer camps!

Enroll now: https://t.co/gS8swQ0P8E

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

After collecting organism samples from the Massapequa Preserve back in October, science research students at the Massapequa High School Ames Campus came to the DNA Learning Center to extract the DNA and analyze their samples https://t.co/AV0ZzU8W23

[DNA Learning Center @DNALC]

Register for the upcoming Science Technology & Research Scholars (STARS) Virtual Fair on 3/3, at 6:30 PM ET to learn more about our free, two-week summer program for high school students in NYC and Long Island.

Register: https://t.co/Q63osxs5Kw
More info: https://t.co/mswF4U98bU