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Building an Inclusive and Accessible Work Environment

Dr. Stephen Klusza, a GEP Member since 2020, was recently featured in Genes to Genomes, a blog from the Genetics

Drosophila yakuba – Tsc1

Lose, B; Myers, A; Fondse, S; Alberts, I; Stamm, J; Youngblom, JJ; Rele, CP; Reed, LK (2021). Drosophila yakuba –

Gaining research experience is limited at many institutions due to budget and resource constraints. What is magical about GEP is that it’s entirely web-based and students only need access to the internet, whereas normally they may need access to laboratories and biological specimens. This is a great equalizer, and helps students become better scientists and better citizens because they can apply those critical thinking skills to any scenario. Dr. Laura Reed The University of Alabama

GEP Program Director Wins Outstanding Professor Award

We are pleased to announce that GEP’s Program Director—Dr. Laura Reed—was awarded the Outstanding Professor Award at The University of Alabama.

Southeast Regional Node Meeting – November 12, 2021

The GEP Southeast Regional Node held a virtual meeting on November 12, 2021, with 43 students and faculty in attendance,

Pacific Northwest Regional Node Meeting – November 7, 2021

The Pacific Northwest (PNW) Regional Node, which currently includes members from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, held a virtual Regional Node

Texas and Oklahoma Regional Node Meeting November 5, 2021

TX/OK Regional Node Meeting – November 5, 2021

The Oklahoma Universities in the Texas/Oklahoma Regional Node held a node meeting at the Oklahoma Academies of Science Technical Meeting

Genomics Education Partnership (thegep.org) Summer Education Research Workshop The Assessment Committee is considering new education research questions and is planning a 5-day virtual summer workshop for GEP faculty interested in 1) professional development in education research and 2) collaborating on designing and conducting education research projects during the 2021/2022 academic year. The workshop will be facilitated by Professional-development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER). Who: All interested GEP faculty members are welcome to attend What: Based on PEER curriculum Where: Virtual When: June 28 - July 2, 2021; 2 hrs/day How: Synchronous Add yourself to the Trello card (thegep.org/GEP-PEER) if you are interested in participating (free-as everything in GEP!) or want more information!

GEP PEER Education Research Workshop

To provide opportunities for professional development in Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER), GEP offered a week-long summer virtual workshop to the

Pie chart of the Annotation Errors for the Pathways Project Reconciliation Statistics during Summer 2021 Synteny 61.6% Splice site boundaries 4.8% Extra/missing exon(s) 2.1% Mislabeled/missing 6.8% Gene model missing 1.4% Off By 1 2.7% Submission error 19.9%

2021 Pathways GEP Summer Research Fellows

During Summer 2021, nine Summer Fellows from The University of Alabama and Oklahoma Christian University reconciled coding region annotation projects

New GEP Tools YouTube Video: Dot Plots and Protein Alignments

An introductory video on the analysis of dot plots and protein alignments, presented by GEP Virtual TA Rae Lucas, is

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