Incorporating Genomics and Bioinformatics across the Life Sciences Curriculum

Jayna L Ditty,Edwin Kim,Stuart G Gordon,Zhaohui Xu,Seth Axen,Kelynne Reed,Sharyn K Freyermuth,Erin R Sanders-Lorenz,Christopher A Kvaal,Kathleen Scott,Sabine Heinhorst,Cheryl A Kerfeld,Cheryl Bailey,Mitrick Johns,Robert A Britton,Brad Goodner

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000448

Abstract

Incorporating Genomics and Bioinformatics across the Life Sciences Curriculum

Highlights

Undergraduate life sciences education needs an overhaul, as clearly described in the National Research Council of the National Academies’ publication BIO 2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research Biologists
Education research studies support the importance of utilizing primary literature, designing and implementing experiments, and analyzing results in the context of a bona fide scientific question [1–12] in cultivating the analytical skills necessary to become a scientist. Incorporating these basic scientific methodologies in undergraduate education leads to increased undergraduate and post-graduate retention in the sciences [13–16]
Many undergraduate teaching organizations offer training and suggestions for faculty to update and improve their teaching approaches to help students learn as scientists, through design and discovery (e.g., Council of Undergraduate Research [www.cur.org] and Project Kaleidoscope [ www.pkal.org])

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Repository Citation Xu, Zhaohui; Ditty, Jayna L.; Kvaal, Christopher A.; Goodner, Brad; Freyermuth, Sharyn K.; Bailey, Cheryl; Britton, Robert A.; Gordon, Stuart G.; Heinhorst, Sabine; Reed, Kelynne; Sanders-Lorenz, Erin R.; Axen, Seth; Kim, Edwin; Johns, Mitrick; Scott, Kathleen; and Kerfeld, Cheryl A., "Incorporating Genomics and Bioinformatics Across the Life Sciences Curriculum" (2010). This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biological Sciences at ScholarWorks@BGSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biological Sciences Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@BGSU. Sanders-Lorenz, Seth Axen, Edwin Kim, Mitrick Johns, Kathleen Scott, and Cheryl A. This article is available at ScholarWorks@BGSU: https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bio_sci_pub/16

Incorporating Genomics and Bioinformatics across the Life Sciences Curriculum

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