Expanding the Genomics Education Partnership: Regional Mentoring and Training Networks to Diversify Bioinformatics Education and Research

项目摘要 基因组学教育伙伴关系(GEP)是一个由教师推动的全国性合作项目， 通过培训、指导和外展，使广泛的机构能够引入 将生物信息学纳入本科课程。生物信息学培训延伸了 分子生物学，加强学生的计算机科学和数学技能，并强调 探索生物系统的计算方法的力量。查询驱动的基因组学 研究使学生参与科学发现，同时保持广泛分布的网络 精通尖端实验技术的教师科学家。到目前为止，GEP已经 培训了数百名教师，影响了数千名本科生。大多数人 参与的教职员工和学生是女性，三分之一的GEP参与机构是 为少数人服务。从一开始，GEP就试图： 1.通过研究将生物信息学引入本科课程 2.创建一个可扩展的系统来处理大型项目，让多名学生并行工作 3.通过广泛分布的团队的协作来建立“团队科学”模型 4.与教职员工和学生合著者在科学文献上发表成果 5.发布评估结果，为教学学术做出贡献。 GEP让本科生从事有意义的基因组研究，而不考虑 他们机构的选择性、位置或研究重点，由我们的出版物支持 对教育成果的评估。这项IPERT提案将进一步加强GEP的 致力于对科学工作者进行包容性培训。具体目标1将发展区域 招聘、培训和指导包容性本地教职员工和学生社区的节点 在基因组学教学和研究方面。在当地和公平促进处招聘新教师 全国STEM会议将聚焦于为代表不足的学生提供服务的机构 组。地区研讨会将使本科生能够直接传播他们的 在科学界的研究和参与。具体目标2将扩大GEP的 科学范围、能力和传播，通过创建一个新的调查员发起的， 本科生支持的基因注释工作流程，以及相关的基因组学课程， 这将使任何真核基因组的社区注释项目成为可能，推动可扩展的团队 解决新出现的基因组学问题的科学方法。这一新平台整合了 本科生作者的基因报告的快速开放获取微型出版物，进一步吸引 理科专业的学生。

Project Summary The Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) is a nationwide faculty-driven collaboration that, through training, mentorship, and outreach enables a broad range of institutions to introduce bioinformatics into the undergraduate curriculum. Bioinformatics training extends the teaching of molecular biology, strengthens students' computer science and math skills, and emphasizes the power of computational approaches to explore biological systems. Inquiry-driven genomics research engages students in scientific discovery while maintaining a widely distributed network of teacher-scientists proficient in cutting edge experimental techniques. To date the GEP has trained hundreds of faculty and impacted thousands of undergraduates. A majority of participating faculty and students are women, and a third of GEP participant institutions are minority-serving. From the start, the GEP has sought to: 1. Introduce bioinformatics into the undergraduate curriculum through research 2. Create a scalable system to tackle big projects with many students working in parallel 3. Model “team science” through collaboration of a widely dispersed team 4. Publish results in the scientific literature with faculty and student authors co-authors 5. Publish assessment results to contribute to the scholarship of teaching and learning. The GEP engages undergraduates in meaningful genomics research regardless of the selectivity, location, or research focus of their institution, as supported by our published assessments of education outcomes. This IPERT proposal will further enhance the GEP's commitment to inclusive training of the scientific workforce. Specific Aim 1 will develop regional nodes to recruit, train, and mentor inclusive local communities of faculty and students engaged in genomics teaching and research. New faculty recruitment locally and at equity-promoting national STEM conferences will focus on institutions that serve students from underrepresented groups. Regional symposia will enable undergraduate students' direct dissemination of their research and participation in the scientific community. Specific Aim 2 will broaden the GEP's scientific scope, capacity, and dissemination by creating a new investigator-initiated, undergraduate-powered gene annotation workflow, with an associated genomics curriculum, that will enable community annotation projects for any eukaryotic genome, driving scalable team science approaches to novel and emerging genomics questions. This new platform incorporates rapid open-access micropublication of gene reports by undergraduate authors, further engaging students in their science.