Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics for Community College Faculty

社区学院教师的功能基因组学和生物信息学

• 批准号: 0302940
• 负责人: Jeffery O'Neal
• 金额: $ 26.29万
• 依托单位: Los Rios Community College District
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-04-15 至 2007-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0302940&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Functional; Genomics; Bioinformatics; Community; College

This professional development project is improving the instructional capabilities of community colleges in genomic technologies and bioinformatics. The project combines an intensive five-day workshop with a subsequent online course and industry internship. The project includes conducting five-day summer workshops for instructors to learn the basics of informatics and biological applications. The workshop participants then participate in a semester-long online class in the fall to further enhance their knowledge and comfort level with bioinformatics. The following spring, the faculty participates in internships inlocal labs to use their new skills, work with real-world data and applications of the new technology, and form relationships with local bioinformatics scientists. Project products are community college faculty highly trained and prepared to train students for jobs in bioinformatics, accessible, relevant, and easily updateable instructional materials, and relationships with local bioinformaticists to provide support and consultation.By training community college instructors, the project has a broad impact. Community colleges are the frontline of higher education and serve many more students than do four-year institutions, due to greater accessibility and lower costs. Through these instructors, we are impacting the greatest number of workforce-bound individuals possible. Based on class size at several community colleges, we estimate that this project is exposing an estimated 2,000 students to bioinformatics in a single school year. Courses, follow-up-services, instructional manuals and informational updates facilitate institutionalizing bioinformatics into the local community college curricula. We are targeting faculty from community colleges with proportionally higher populations of underrepresented groups. By training a cadre of faculty, this project is permanently impacting the capacity of the community colleges to teach bioinformatics, and create relationships among trained faculty, UC Davis personnel, and industry scientists.

这个专业发展项目正在提高社区大学在基因组技术和生物信息学方面的教学能力。该项目将为期五天的密集研讨会与随后的在线课程和行业实习相结合。该项目包括为教师举办为期五天的夏季讲习班，以学习信息学和生物学应用的基础知识。研讨会参与者在秋季参加一个学期的在线课程，以进一步提高他们对生物信息学的知识和舒适度。第二年春天，教师参加当地实验室的实习，使用他们的新技能，处理现实世界的数据和新技术的应用，并与当地的生物信息学科学家建立关系。项目产品是训练有素的社区学院教师，为培养学生从事生物信息学工作做好准备，可获取、相关且易于更新的教学材料，以及与当地生物信息学家提供支持和咨询的关系。通过培训社区大学教师，该项目产生了广泛的影响。社区大学是高等教育的前沿，比四年制大学招收更多的学生，因为它更容易进入，成本更低。通过这些指导员，我们正在影响尽可能多的受劳动力束缚的个人。根据几所社区大学的班级规模，我们估计这个项目在一个学年中将使大约2000名学生接触到生物信息学。课程、后续服务、指导手册和信息更新有助于将生物信息学纳入当地社区大学课程。我们的目标是来自社区大学的教师，这些社区大学的弱势群体比例更高。通过培训骨干教师，该项目永久性地影响了社区学院教授生物信息学的能力，并在训练有素的教师、加州大学戴维斯分校员工和行业科学家之间建立了关系。