From Mars to Microbes: High School Health on Another Level!
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.
Note: Upon successful enrollment of a section, students will receive a confirmation email from our Student Services team. This email will include a link to an authorization form that is required to be completed within 72-hours of enrollment.
Course Number: BIOL-90052
Credit: 1.50 unit(s)
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7/8/2024 - 7/12/2024
$175
Live Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).
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
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
Pre-enrollment required.
No refunds after: 5/31/2024.
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NOTE:
This is a live online course. Instructor will contact student 24-hours in advance of start date with Zoom information (please check email associated with STUDENT'S account - not parent's account). Students need to come prepared to sessions with pen/pencil, colored pencils, markers, notebook/paper, scissors, tape, and ruler.
If a student decides to drop from the course, they can receive a full refund until 5/13/24 and a half refund until 5/31/24. No refunds will be granted starting 6/1/24.
| DATE | DAY | START | END | LOCATION |
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| 7/8/2024 | Mon | 9:00 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | |
| 7/9/2024 | Tue | 9:00 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | |
| 7/10/2024 | Wed | 9:00 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | |
| 7/11/2024 | Thu | 9:00 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | |
| 7/12/2024 | Fri | 9:00 a.m. | 12:00 p.m. | |
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7/22/2024 - 7/26/2024
$175
Live Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Synchronous web-based class meetings that are scheduled to meet online at published times (time/date).
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
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POLICIES:
Early enrollment advised.
No UCSD parking permit required.
No visitors permitted.
Pre-enrollment required.
No refunds after: 5/31/2024.
-
NOTE:
This is a live online course. Instructor will contact student 24-hours in advance of start date with Zoom information (please check email associated with STUDENT'S account - not parent's account). Students need to come prepared to sessions with pen/pencil, colored pencils, markers, notebook/paper, scissors, tape, and ruler.
| DATE | DAY | START | END | LOCATION |
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| 7/22/2024 | Mon | 1:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | |
| 7/23/2024 | Tue | 1:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | |
| 7/24/2024 | Wed | 1:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | |
| 7/25/2024 | Thu | 1:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | |
| 7/26/2024 | Fri | 1:00 p.m. | 4:00 p.m. | |
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Pre-College Programs department at 858-534-0804 or precollege@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.