CityLab Scholars Program

CityLab’s Scholars program offers high school students in the Greater Boston area the opportunity to participate in hands-on biotechnology labs.

The Scholars program will meet one day per month after school from 4-7 PM at 2 Silber Way, Room 309, Boston, MA 02215.  There is no fee for the program.

Registration for Scholars in 2023-2024 is now closed. 

The Spring Scholars meetings will take place on:

Monday, January 29, 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024

Monday, March 25, 2024

Monday, April 29, 2024

All of the Spring 2024 Scholars Labs will focus on CRISPR and gene editing, including PCR verification of successful editing.

The Fall Scholars meetings took place on:

Wednesday, October 18, 2023- Mystery of the Crooked Cell Lab

Wednesday, November 8, 2023- Protein Quantitation in Chronic Kidney Disease

Wednesday, December 20, 2023- DNA Fingerprinting (Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis) and DNA Forensics

Please contact us at sumlab@bu.edu with any questions about Scholars.