Tommie S. Hata

  Teaching and Professional Portfolio

   email: tshata@gmail.com

   Course Website: www.pingrybiology.com

This Portfolio is a showcase of my educational/professional development, reflection, and goals.  This site will be constantly modified and updated to reflect my progress and development as a secondary science teacher and scientist.

“for students to develop the abilities that characterize science as inquiry, they must actively participate in scientific investigations, and they must actually use the cognitive and manipulative skills associated with the formulation of scientific explanations”

National Science Education Standards
Science Content Standards 9-12
 

   Recent work and updates:

• Conference participant.  IBC Drug Discovery and Development Week (Boston, MA, August 2009).  Sessions attended: The Next Wave of Antibody Therapeutics, Drug Safety Strategies to De-Risk Compounds, Targets in Context-Linking Targets to Diseases.

• Modeling the Molecular World, Part 2: Designing Instructional Materials for the Classroom.
  Center for Biomolecular Modeling, Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI.

• Poster presentation at American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting (ASBMB) (New Orleans, LA, May 2009)

  Poster: "Bioinformatics in a High School Research Curriculum: Phage Hunting and Soil Metagenomics at The Pingry School"

• Poster and oral presentations at American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Meeting (ASBMB) (San Diego, CA, April 2008)

Poster: "Screening for novel small molecule-encoding sequences using environmental DNA cosmid libraries created from Pingry School soil metagenomes"

Poster: "Physical models of bacteriophage lytic enzymes: 2008 Pingry School S.M.A.R.T. Team Project"

Oral Presentation for session: "Targets for Drug Discovery: Has Target-Based Screening Failed for Antibacterials?"

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With Dr. Seth Darst, Rockefeller University, discussing my model of RNA polymerase ternary elongation complex.  The structure of prokaryotic RNA polymerase was solved by Dr. Darst. 
 
With Dr. Roger Kornberg (center), 2006 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, and Dr. Seth Darst (right) at the Symposium in Honor of Roger Kornberg (Stanford University, April 2007).  I presented Dr. Kornberg with a model of yeast RNA Polymerase II built based on the structure determined in the his lab.