PUBLICATION
Ground, Path, and Fruition: Teaching Zebrafish Development to Tibetan Buddhist Monks in India
- Authors
- Kimelman, D.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180927-17
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Zebrafish 15(6): 648-651 (Other)
- Registered Authors
- Kimelman, David
- Keywords
- Buddhism, Tibetan monks, teaching developmental biology
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Buddhism*
- Developmental Biology/education*
- Embryonic Development*
- Humans
- India
- Monks/education*
- Tibet
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- PubMed
- 30256732 Full text @ Zebrafish
Citation
Kimelman, D. (2018) Ground, Path, and Fruition: Teaching Zebrafish Development to Tibetan Buddhist Monks in India. Zebrafish. 15(6):648-651.
Abstract
In June 2018, I traveled to India to teach in a Tibetan Buddhist monastery under the auspices of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative (ETSI), a program that brings aspects of science education to the three major Tibetan monastic universities in exile. My role was to teach developmental biology to the monks over a 9-day period, and I found zebrafish development to be an excellent vehicle for introducing them to both the wonder of embryonic development and to some of the most advanced findings in the field of developmental biology. I describe here my experiences, observations, and thoughts about how the monastic system will need to change if the monks are really to develop the ability to think like scientists.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping