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

扩大基因组学教育合作伙伴关系：区域指导和培训网络使生物信息学教育和研究多样化

• 批准号: 9912783
• 负责人: DOUGLAS LEE CHALKER
• 金额: $ 44.21万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN TUSCALOOSA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-15 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9912783
• 关键词: Automobile Driving; Bioinformatics; Canada; Categories; Collaborations; Communities; Complex; Computer Analysis; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Ethnic group; Evolution; Faculty; Faculty Recruitment; Genes; Genetic; Genome; Genomics; Geographic Distribution; Geography; Goals; Institution; Learning; Literature; Location; Mathematics; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority-Serving Institution; Modeling; Molecular Biology; Outcome; Paper; Participant; Population; Publishing; Puerto Rico; Race; Reporting; Research; Research Peer Review; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; STEM career; STEM student; Scholarship; Science; Scientist; Students; Surveys; System; Taiwan; Techniques; Training; Underrepresented Groups; Underrepresented Students; Universities; Woman; Work; biological systems; college; community building; community college; comparative genomics; computer science; curriculum development; education research; faculty community; faculty mentor; faculty support; genetic evolution; genome annotation; genomic data; interest; member; novel; outreach; pedagogy; precision medicine; racial and ethnic; recruit; skills; socioeconomics; symposium; teacher; teacher scholarship; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; workforce needs

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.

项目摘要 基因组学教育伙伴关系（GEP）是一个全国性的教师驱动的合作， 通过培训、指导和推广，使广泛的机构能够引入 生物信息学纳入本科课程。生物信息学培训扩展了 分子生物学，加强学生的计算机科学和数学技能，并强调 计算方法的力量来探索生物系统。探究驱动的基因组学 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。迄今为止， 培训了数百名教师，影响了数千名本科生。大多数 参与的教师和学生是女性，三分之一的GEP参与机构是 服务少数民族从一开始，两性平等观点就力求： 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，以解决许多学生并行工作的大型项目 3.通过广泛分散的团队协作建立“团队科学”模型 4.与教师和学生作者共同在科学文献中发表结果 5.公布评估结果，为教学和学习的学术贡献。 GEP让大学生参与有意义的基因组学研究， 选择性，位置，或他们的机构的研究重点，作为我们的出版物的支持 评估教育成果。该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：发展区域性 招募、培训和指导包容性的当地教师和学生社区的节点 在基因组学教学和研究中。在当地和促进公平的新教师招聘 国家STEM会议将重点关注为代表性不足的学生提供服务的机构 组区域研讨会将使本科生能够直接传播他们的 研究和参与科学界。具体目标2将扩大GEP的 科学的范围，能力和传播，通过创建一个新的倡导者发起， 本科生驱动的基因注释工作流程，与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， 用科学方法解决新出现的基因组学问题。这个新平台包含了 由本科生作者快速开放获取基因报告的微型出版物，进一步吸引 学生在他们的科学。