As part of its outreach mission, GlycoMIP (glycomip.org) provided education about glycomaterials to high-school STEM teachers through the Teacher Enrichment Program of the Center for Excellence in Education (www.cee.org).

In a virtual seminar, Director Maren Roman introduced teachers to the GLYCAM-Web (glycam.org) online Carbohydrate Builder modeling tool for generating 3D models of glycans.

Participating teachers received step-by-step instructions on how to:

• Construct the input string describing the disaccharide lactose

• Visualize the 3D structure of lactose

• Measure distances between atoms and angles between bonds

• Download the generated data files

The tool has attracted interest for use in a high-school course on macromolecules.

The education event was made possible by the NSF-funded collaboration between Virginia Tech and the University of Georgia.