Genomics Education Partnership

Our Program Director will be attending to represent the GEP 👏🏻

Previous GEP scientific output relied on a traditional scientific publishing model. While successful, this approach is slow and limits undergraduate participation in the publishing process due to student transience. To speed up dissemination and create publishing opportunities for undergraduate students, GEP is collaborating with microPublication Biology to establish an integrated workflow for citable peer-reviewed gene model reports. microPublication.org publishes brief articles on research findings presented in a single figure to rapidly disseminate experimentally sound results to the community. https://lnkd.in/eetgyAuf

Don't forget to apply for the Victoria Finnerty Undergraduate Travel Award to get attendance support for #Dros25 🪰 What you'll need for your application: 👉 A letter of recommendation from the PI of the #lab in which you are conducting #research or another #professor or #supervisor familiar with your work 👉 You must be a GSA member (if you're not a member, join GSA, then wait 20 minutes, refresh the application site, and continue) Don't miss this opportunity to present your research as an #undergraduate at the premier meeting for #Drosophila researchers! Apply now: https://buff.ly/3aKbHpr

Laura Reed (Genomics Education Partnership) will be speaking on a panel alongside Jonathan Pugh (Oxford Nanopore Technologies) et al., moderated by Jason Williams (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory DNA Learning Center), on Inclusive Genomics Education: Empowering Everyone to Sequence Everything on 08/28/2024 at 11a-12:30p (CDT). It’s FREE to register! https://lnkd.in/ekU5DsQZ

📣 Sharing 📣 Equity & Justice for Diverse Women in the Sciences Hosted by American Association for the Advancement of Science Sep 11, 2024 7 PM EST In this interactive webinar, panelists will discuss their experiences as diverse women in the sciences and the advocacy for diverse women and scholars in the sciences as a result of their experiences. The panel will discuss approaches and inclusive practices highlighting the importance of equitable professional spaces at all career levels. Panelists: Judi Brown Clarke, Ph.D., Stony Brook University, VP Diversity Daniella Scalice, NASA - Indigenous Education Catalina Martinez, NOAA DEl in ocean sciences Moderator Wendy F. Todd, Ph.D., Xáadas Environmental Science University of Alaska Southeast Registration link - https://lnkd.in/gEZ3PaFc

NEW GEP PUBLICATION ALERT! Virtual Engagement in a Hybrid Community of Practice: A Descriptive Study on the Training and Integration of New Members into the Genomics Education Partnership during COVID-19 https://lnkd.in/eJ4FzWJS

It was a privilege to have been one of only 30 educators in the nation selected to attend the 1st ever BioEd Summit focused on Crafting Student-Centric Curricula with National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Resources.   I learned a plethora of new skills and resources to aid in my work as the Director of Curriculum for the Genomics Education Partnership! I have 10+ years of experience developing curriculum, but I hadn’t ever developed a systematic way to do so. I found the “Crafting Curricula the NCBI Way” presentation especially helpful and will work to develop something similar for myself and the GEP’s Curriculum Committee [1]. While I had previously done a lot of work with active learning curriculum design and implementing it in the classroom, I found Rana Morris' presentation on making curriculum relevant to the real world, discovery-based, and tell a story to be incredibly insightful [2].    Prior to the workshop I was “scared” of proteins and had no idea how to even begin implementing anything much outside of their functions in the Central Dogma into my curriculum design and instruction. Using VR headsets to explore the iCn3D visualization tools would allow students to “touch” the proteins and interact with them in a novel way.   The BioEd Summit was a week-long, in-person event for educators to come, interact, and collaborate with each other in a codeathon-style curricula-thon to develop an exciting curricular package (including learning objectives, course materials, and assessments) that they can use in their classrooms/courses. See [3] for an overview of the team projects and access their GitHub repositories (click on the GitHub icon next to the relevant team project description). I created my team’s introduction covering the roles and interactions of insulin with the insulin receptor in humans [4].   [1] https://lnkd.in/dKxj4sxb   [2] https://lnkd.in/dFuykUts   [3] https://lnkd.in/dmG-Q4ju   [4] https://lnkd.in/dF72ZZ_8

We’re happy to hear GEP staff member, Katie Sandlin, enjoyed her trip to the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)!

Katie is representing the GEP at the 2024 NHGRI Short Course in Genomics.

Happy National #DNADay24! Today, the anniversary of the discovery of the double helix, is a great day to download genome data packages from NCBI Datasets. Check it out: https://ow.ly/kcLR50Ro7Tc