Metacognition

Innovating Education: Insights from Quality in Action Sessions

Dr. Jennifer Culver, the Community Engagement Manager at Quality Matters (QM) wrapped up the Quality in Action sessions. Culver noted that you can’t have innovation and continuous improvement without innovation. Attendees spoke about the ideas shared and potential. AI simplifies the creation of scenarios and also brings challenges. The generative tools can help create cases, […]
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Cultivating Innovation Through Reflective Practice in Education

Dr. Emma Zone, Senior Director of Academic Affairs at D2L, presented at the Quality Matters (QM) Quality in Action conference. The title of the session was “Beyond Self-Assessment: Cultivating an Innovation Mindset Through Reflective Practice.” Zone explained that “reflective practice is a method of critically analyzing experiences to gain insights and enhance future actions” and […]
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Effective Course Design Techniques from Instructional Designer Bridget Brooks

Bridget Brooks, Instructional Designer at the University of North Dakota, presented at the Quality in Action conference. The title of the session was “Breaking it Down to Build it Better: Deconstruction for Quality Implementation.” Dr. Brooks is also a Curriculum Coordinator II at the University of South Carolina. Brooks also did the Teaching Online Certificate […]
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Benefits of CUREs on Scientific Identity in Undergraduates

I am happy to have found the JMBE YouTube playlist I had forgotten about! Tonight I watched the session on “CURES increase students’ scientific self-efficacy, scientific identity, and self-assessed skills.” Grace Borlee and Carolina Mehaffy were the guests, and the session was moderated by Stanley Maloy, JMBE Editor-in-chief. Mehaffy is at Colorado State University along […]
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Key Insights from LISA Workshop on KBase Narratives

Tonight, I started watching the recording from day 3 of the LISA workshop. This session focused on the narrative for long-read assemblies. John-Marc Chandonia and Lauren Lui, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory explained the components of a KBase narrative. Chandonia demonstrated the apps panel, beta and released apps, and finding apps. The configuration of the Filtlong […]
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Understanding Copy Number Variations in Intraoperative Brain Tumor Detection

Chun-Chieh Lin from Dartmouth Health spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting in Boston on “Nanopore-based random genomic sampling for intraoperative diagnosis of brain tumors and beyond.” They focused on copy number and methylation alterations. Lin explained that copy number variation (CNV) is a common variant. Current approaches are karyotyping and comparative genomic hybridization, targeted with […]
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From Plant to Publication: Empowering Students with Data Literacy Skills

Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig, Germany, presented a five-minute session at London Calling 2024 titled “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Wolff spoke about the variety of plants around us and empowering students to learn about plant diversity. They wanted to address the increasing availability of data and lack of data […]
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Reticulatus

Samuel Nicholls from the University of Birmingham in the UK presented at London Calling on “Long-read nanopore metagenomics for reconstruction of bacterial genomes.” They spoke about the impact of microbial communities on human health and the difficulties we encounter trying to culture some microbes. Nicholls and team published a study sequencing the Zymo mock communities. […]
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Mobile Metagenomics with MARTi

Richard Leggett from Earlham Institute in the UK presented at London Calling 2021 on “Real-time metagenomics with MARTi.” MARTi stands for “Metagenomic Analysis in Real Time.” They developed this workflow for rapid diagnostics. Once they developed MARTi, Leggett and the team realized there are numerous applications for “in situ sequencing.” NanoOK has been available but […]
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Data Analysis Solutions from ONT

The next lesson in the Nanopore Learning course for Human genome sequencing and analysis I watched was the introduction to data analysis solutions video. The speaker, Anthony Doran, shared a graphic with the different bioinformatics options provided by Oxford Nanopore. EPI2ME is the real-time cloud-based platform. There are several workflows for quality control, alignment, and […]
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