Our Program Director, Dr. Laura Reed, and GEP staff members Katie Sandlin and Chinmay Rele took a road trip from The University of Alabama to Washington University in St. Louis to train with GEP’s Director of IT, Wilson Leung. Wilson trained Laura, Katie, and Chinmay on using Apollo for reconciling students’ annotated gene models and the team began developing an updated annotation protocol for the Pathways Project.

NEW GEP Publication on the Use and Value of Virtual Learning Assistants
This mixed-methods descriptive study provides an overview of the GEP virtual learning assistant (LA) program, and it describes the quantitative data gathered about the scope and use of the program.