Alison Criss joined Jeff Saucerman in BME at a TechGirls event for middle-school girls in Charlottesville-Albemarle, where they learned how to program using\u00a0the platform Scratch (from MIT). The programming activity is to make a neutrophil move towards microbes and engulf them. Dr. Criss showed some microscopy videos of neutrophils and talked with them about innate immunity and neutrophils. The middle school students then toured the Saucerman lab, where they looked at a slide prepared by the Criss lab showing neutrophils and fluorescent Gc.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Alison Criss joined Jeff Saucerman in BME at a TechGirls event for middle-school girls in Charlottesville-Albemarle, where they learned how to program using\u00a0the platform Scratch (from MIT). The programming activity is to make a neutrophil move towards microbes and engulf them. Dr. Criss showed some microscopy videos of neutrophils and talked with them about innate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1777,"featured_media":3812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"acf":false,"yoast_head":"\n
TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alison Criss joined Jeff Saucerman in BME at a TechGirls event for middle-school girls in Charlottesville-Albemarle, where they learned how to program using\u00a0the platform Scratch (from MIT). The programming activity is to make a neutrophil move towards microbes and engulf them. Dr. Criss showed some microscopy videos of neutrophils and talked with them about innate […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-03-19T16:21:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"480\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"zrb8mf@virginia.edu\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"zrb8mf@virginia.edu\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/\",\"name\":\"TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-03-19T16:21:15+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/37d06d0d7b2d42470a233568c39f02af\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg\",\"width\":640,\"height\":480},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/\",\"name\":\"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/37d06d0d7b2d42470a233568c39f02af\",\"name\":\"zrb8mf@virginia.edu\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c54cc742455940b7fe64c0cbcc2f4e77eeac274cc9cd97879654d7793d2eda49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c54cc742455940b7fe64c0cbcc2f4e77eeac274cc9cd97879654d7793d2eda49?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"zrb8mf@virginia.edu\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/author\/zrb8mfvirginia-edu\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","og_description":"Alison Criss joined Jeff Saucerman in BME at a TechGirls event for middle-school girls in Charlottesville-Albemarle, where they learned how to program using\u00a0the platform Scratch (from MIT). The programming activity is to make a neutrophil move towards microbes and engulf them. Dr. Criss showed some microscopy videos of neutrophils and talked with them about innate […]","og_url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/","og_site_name":"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","article_published_time":"2019-03-19T16:21:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":640,"height":480,"url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"zrb8mf@virginia.edu","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"zrb8mf@virginia.edu"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/","name":"TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming - Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg","datePublished":"2019-03-19T16:21:15+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/37d06d0d7b2d42470a233568c39f02af"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-and-Dr-Criss.jpg","width":640,"height":480},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/2019\/03\/19\/3817\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"TechGirls learn about neutrophils and programming"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#website","url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/","name":"Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/37d06d0d7b2d42470a233568c39f02af","name":"zrb8mf@virginia.edu","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c54cc742455940b7fe64c0cbcc2f4e77eeac274cc9cd97879654d7793d2eda49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c54cc742455940b7fe64c0cbcc2f4e77eeac274cc9cd97879654d7793d2eda49?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"zrb8mf@virginia.edu"},"url":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/author\/zrb8mfvirginia-edu\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/mic\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/467\/2019\/03\/pre-K-class-bacterial-swabs-e1553013379510.jpg\")
<\/p>\n