Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics for Community College Faculty

这一专业发展项目正在提高社区学院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结合在一起。该项目包括为教师举办为期五天的暑期讲习班，以学习信息学和生物应用的基础知识。然后，研讨会参与者将在秋季参加为期一学期的在线课程，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，教员们参加当地实验室的实习，使用他们的新技能，处理真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。项目产品是经过高度培训和准备的社区学院教师，旨在培训学生从事生物信息学工作，提供可访问、相关和易于更新的教学材料，以及与当地生物信息学家的关系，以提供支持和咨询。通过培训社区大学教师，该项目具有广泛的影响。社区学院是高等教育的第一线，由于更容易获得机会和更低的费用，社区学院服务的学生比四年制学院多得多。通过这些讲师，我们正在影响尽可能多的劳动力密集型个人。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里让大约2000名学生接触到生物信息学。课程、后续服务、教学手册和信息更新有助于将生物信息学制度化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，他们的代表不足群体的比例较高。通过培训一批教员，该项目永久性地影响了社区学院教授生物信息学的能力，并在训练有素的教员、加州大学戴维斯分校的工作人员和行业科学家之间建立了关系。

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.