Southeast New Member Training February 2020
The Southeast Regional Node held its first New Member Training Welcome Workshop at The University of Alabama February 7-9, 2020.
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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
GEP Awarded Two Five-year Grants from NIH and NSF
The GEP was recently awarded two five-year grants— a $2.2 million award from the National Institutes of Health and a $1.99 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The paired approaches of these grants give GEP broader outreach and a unique opportunity to determine if a seemingly more economical online training strategy is actually sufficient to support implementation and persistence in the GEP.
Midwest North Regional Node Meeting
The Midwest North Node, which covers Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, held the GEP’s first NIH-funded Regional Node Meeting