High School: Holobionts in Space Designing a Healthy Human from Scratch

Humans need certain conditions to ensure health for survival on Mars. Learn how angiogenesis, regeneration and mitochondrial health affects their health!

 

Imagine humans have successfully settled a colony on Mars. There would be necessary components to keep and sustain their health on this new and strange terrain. This includes how angiogenesis initiates the process of new blood and vessel growth. Students will witness how the human body can regenerate itself from wounds and also research immunity and what foods naturally boost the human immune system.

What You Will Learn

Students in High School: Holobionts in Space: Designing a Healthy Human from Scratch will:

• Learn about angiogenesis and new blood vessel growth
• Encounter how the human body regenerates itself like a starfish and can heal itself from wounds
• Explore the human microbiome and which flora in the human gut are necessary for us to thrive
• Learn about DNA protection and how the genetic code can repair itself including unique risk factors in a xenic (non-Earth) environment
• Research immunity and what foods naturally boost the actions of the immune system
• Discover the fascinating organelle known as mitochondria that grows and divides independently of our cells—though it exists within them

Return to the Sally Ride Science website here. 

Course Number: BIOL-90052
Credit: 1.50 unit(s)

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7/31/2023 - 8/4/2023

$199

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San Diego

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• SECTION ID:

  175476

• CLASS TYPE:

  This is a traditional classroom setting.
  
  All class meetings held in-person according to published location, dates and times. Students may be expected to engage with course content online during the published course dates.

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Smith, Lincoln

  Lincoln Smith interviewed at medical schools across the country in two medical school application cycles, with two accompanying official administrations of the MCAT. He pursued programs that treated a specific type of quadraplegia in the first cycle, and those programs that studied cancer immunotherapy for his terminally ill father the second. He has taught and now prepares MCAT curriculum for pre-medicine students, passing his medical school application and MCAT knowledge on to aspiring medical professionals. Lincoln went on to teach the MCAT at a major Test Prep company for the next three years. Subsequent to this, he has continued to tutor the MCAT privately, with a spin off P98 CARS curriculum from his 98th percentile CARS section. He has a 97th percentile overall MCAT score. H...Read More

• TEXTBOOKS:

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• POLICIES:

  Early enrollment advised.
  No UCSD parking permit required.
  No visitors permitted.
  Pre-enrollment required.
  No refunds after: 7/24/2023.
  

• NOTE:

DATE	DAY	START	END	LOCATION
7/31/2023	Mon	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.	Room 210, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
8/1/2023	Tue	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.	Room 210, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
8/2/2023	Wed	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.	Room 210, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
8/3/2023	Thu	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.	Room 210, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego
8/4/2023	Fri	9:00 a.m.	12:00 p.m.	Room 210, UCSD Division of Extended Studies University City Center, 6256 Greenwich Dr., San Diego