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Summer Training Session 1

Our new member training for Summer 2020 has officially ended for our first group of trainees. Please join us in welcoming our newest members to the GEP community: Dr. Anthony Aragon, Dr. Ashley Turner, Dr. Catherine Ward, Dr. Gaia Bistulfi, Jennifer Robichaud, Dr. Karen Schmeichel, Dr. Kayla Bieser, Kristin Lewis, Dr. Lea Alford, Dr. Marie Montes-Matias, Dr. Melinda Yang, Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Melissa Eslinger, Dr. Moses M Darpolor, and Dr. Virginia Rebecca Falkenberg. We look forward to their participation in the GEP! Special thank you to Dr. Catherine Reinke and Dr. Jennifer Mierisch for facilitating their online training.

We’ve Grown to 151 Active Faculty Members

Please join us in welcoming our four newest faculty members: Dr. Sophie Altamirano, Dr. Chitra Chandrasekaran, Dr. Scott Tanner, and Dr. Erika Schwarz Taylor. We look forward to their participation in the GEP! Special thank you to the chairs of GEP’s New Member Training Subcommittee— Drs. Catherine Reinke and Jennifer Mierisch— for facilitating their online training!

Online Training: Summer 2020

To help biology faculty with the transition to online teaching, we have increased our online training opportunities in summer 2020. The online training will help faculty integrate GEP curriculum materials into existing courses, and to engage students in scientific research through Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) centered in genomics. These training sessions will be led by current GEP faculty and staff. Each session will meet for ~1.5 hours each weekday during the two week period. Once we have a firm list of trainees for a given session, we’ll send out a poll to determine the meeting time that works for everyone.

New GEP Publication

A hallmark of the research experience is encountering difficulty and working through those challenges to achieve success. This ability is essential to being a successful scientist, but replicating such challenges in a teaching setting can be difficult. Our observations suggested that the students’ learning experience is continuous and recursive, frequently beginning with frustration but eventually leading to success as they come up with defendable gene models.

Welcome New GEP Members

Please join us in welcoming the following new members who just completed their online training to join the GEP: Dr. Ana Almeida, Dr. Christopher Ellison, Dr. Alisha Howard, and Dr. Shallee Page. We look forward to their participation in the GEP! Special thanks to the chairs of GEP’s New Member Training Subcommittee— Drs. Catherine Reinke and Jennifer Mierisch— for facilitating their online training!

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Beta Version of Pathways Project Walkthrough is Live

We are very excited to release the beta version of the newest piece of GEP curriculum, the Pathways Project: Annotation Walkthrough! Katie has been working really hard to bring this into being. We appreciate the indispensable help from the GEP members who shared with us their own curriculum and personal observations and piloted our earlier drafts. This walkthrough illustrates how to apply the GEP annotation strategy for the Pathways Project to construct a gene model for the Ras homolog enriched in brain (Rheb) gene in Drosophila yakuba.

GEP Staff Road Trip

Our Program Director, Dr. Laura Reed, and GEP staff members Katie Sandlin and Chinmay Rele took a road trip from