ComGen Authentic Research Experiences (C-ARE): Dissemination, Enrichment and Expansion Project

智力优势：该项目的核心是一个四分之一长，六个季度学分的本科实验室课程，重点是对农业上重要的细菌荧光假单胞菌的基因组进行测序。除了涵盖传统课程的讲座外，学生还将进行原创性研究（DNA片段测序，故障排除，确保数据的有效性，分析和推断结果的重要性，并将数据传达给同行和教师）。在演讲中所涵盖的主题中批评当前原始研究文章的协同活动将研究经验与学生的理论学习联系起来，并告知学生对自己数据的分析。社区学院的合作伙伴包括奥林匹克、克拉克、塔科马和埃弗雷特社区学院。其他合作伙伴包括美国农业部农业研究所根病生物控制研究单位和华盛顿州立大学。更广泛的影响：这个项目的目的是使社区学院在整个广泛的西雅图塔科马地区的华盛顿州，将一个真实的研究经验，在他们的传统实验室课程。它是基于一个非常成功的模型设计和实施的PI在贝尔维尤社区学院，并涉及相当数量的专业发展的教师参与。其结果将是一组具有基因组学新学科相关技能的教师，参与学术项目的学生，具有增强课程的社区学院，以及收集有关农业重要假单胞菌物种的重要信息。该项目由生物科学理事会和教育和人力资源理事会共同资助，本科教育部作为他们对本科生物学教育的愿景和变革的努力的一部分

Intellectual Merit: The core of this project is a one quarter long, six quarter credits undergraduate laboratory course centered on sequencing the genome of an agriculturally significant bacterium, Pseudomonas fluorescens. In addition to lectures covering traditional curriculum, students will perform original research (sequence the segments of DNA, trouble shoot, assure the validity of their data, analyze and infer the significance of their results and communicate their data to peers and faculty). The synergistic activity of critiquing current original research articles in the topics covered in lecture connects the research experience to the students' theoretical learning and informs student analysis of their own data. Community college partners include Olympic, Clark, Tacoma and Everett Community Colleges. Other partners include the USDA ARS Root Disease Biological Control Research Unit and Washington State University. Broader Impact: The aim of this project is to enable community colleges throughout the broad Seattle Tacoma region of Washington state to incorporate an authentic research experience within their traditional laboratory curricula. It is based on a highly successful model designed and implemented by the PI at Bellevue Community College and involves a considerable amount of professional development for the faculty involved. The results will be a set of faculty with new disciplinary related skills in genomics, students who have been part of a scholarly project, community colleges with an enhanced curriculum, and important information gathered about an agriculturally important Pseudomonas species.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts toward Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education