Food & Soil
Live microbes that can provide health benefits when taken in sufficient amounts
What are probiotics?
The name of Saydie's advisor/professor and who's lab we are visiting.
Who is Dr. Chris Lowry?
A type of research model that Saydie works with at the lab.
What are rats or Sprague Dawley rats?
The date of the application closed for the Cobell Summer Graduate Fellowship.
What is May 4th?
The number of activity worksheet we done in class so far.
What is 6?
Foods for the microbes that provide health benefits and make them grow.
What are prebiotics?
A Potawatomi botantist and the author of Braiding Sweetgrass.
Who is Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer?
What are the use of humans or animals?
The highest funded grant organizations in the U.S. Hint: there can be multiple answers.
What is NIH or HHMI?
The title of the movie we watched last Thursday.
What is Osmosis Jones?
Beans, corn, and squash is a common crops grown together and main food source for many Indigenous communities in the North and Central America. This is the name that is known in these communities.
What are the Three Sisters.
A member of the Denı́nu Kų́ę́ First Nation (Northwest Territories) and the author of The Science of the Sacred.
Who is Dr. Nicole Redvers?
Positives on clinical research model, Hint: there are multiple answers.
What are
•Evaluate in real time
•Evidence that relates to humans
•Autonomy (for the participants)
The number of receiptants of the Cobell Summer Graduate Fellowship that are awarded each year.
What is 5?
The name of the building the Lowry Lab is in.
What is Wilderness or Wild?
The mycobacterial strains focus in Dr. Lowry's lab, Hint: there are multiple answers.
What are Mycobacterium vaccae NCTC 11659 and Mycobacterium aurum DSM 33539
A Binnizá & Maya Ch'orti' environmental biologist and the author of Fresh Banana Leaves.
Who is Dr. Jessica Hernandez?
Negatives of animal research models, Hint: there are multiple answers.
What are
•Can be expensive- Especially with animals
•Maintenance
•Not exactly like human physiology and biology
•Takes awhile- Timeline and which model you have
The research grants that funds Native research projects (hint: there are multiple answers)
What is Cobell, American Indian College Fund, and NW NARCH?
Two departments that reside in the Wild lab building.
What are Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience and Psychology?
A type of scientific hypothesis that suggests that we need to reconnect with the outdoors and interact with the commensal soil bacteria we co-evolved with and has anti-inflammatory properities. M. vaccae is a one of these soil bacteria.
What is the "Old Friends" hypothesis?
A certain theme of all the Indigenous scientists we learned last week about their work and relationship with the outdoors. I will accept multiple answers that defines this the theme in their answer.
What is respecting Mother Earth/nature and having a familial relationship with our surroundings. We take care of the earth and the earth takes care of us.
What is
- Expensive
- Maintenance
- Extensive planning
The application requirements of the Cobell Summer Graduate Fellowship.
What is a project and budget proposal?
The number of hedgehogs pictures and/or items on Saydie's work desk.
What is 4 (5 if you count the hedgehog picture behind the computer monitor)?