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Ethical Lab Notebook Management in STEM Programs

Rachel Horak facilitated the JMBE Live! session on “Training for Responsible and Ethical Management of Lab Notebooks in CUREs.” Presented on October 28, 2022, Caitlin Light and Sonia Hills at Binghamton University. Sonia Hills was an undergraduate. Binghamtopn University’s First-year Research Immersion Program is a University-wide STEM program enrolling 300 first-year students. The three semester […]
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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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Genome Science in High-School Classrooms: Inflammation, Glutamate, and Methylation – Iolani School Study

I had heard about the work from the Iolani School during one of the Nanopore Education Beta group meetings. Tonight, I watched Ethan C. Hill, a bioinformatician with the Iolani School, and Jaymie M. Frith, a 12th-year student, present at London Calling 2024. Their session was titled “Genome science in high-school classrooms: inflammation, glutamate and […]
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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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From Plant to Publication in a Couse

I have been curious about the title of a session from London Calling 2024: “Empowering scientists with data literacy skills in long-read genomic sequencing.” Katharina Wolff from TU Braunschweig in Germany was the presenter and explained the wide variety of plants and potential for genome sequencing. Wolf and the team wanted to enable students to […]
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Fungal-Bacterial Interaction Screens and Plant Pathogens

Manuel Anguita Maeso, a Ph.D. student at the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture at the CSIC in Spain, spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021. The session’s title was “Unravelling the whole genome of olive antagonist xylem-inhabitant bacteria to fight vascular plant pathogens in olive trees.” I had watched this session previously and wanted to learn […]
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Student Sampling of Contaminated Water Systems

Megan Radosevich from Carroll College presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Analyzing regional and seasonal microbial community variation from a contaminated Montana river.” Radosevich did work over the summer and during a course in Montana. The project is part of the Consortium for Research on Environmental Water Systems (CREWS). One of the main […]
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Daffodils and Advances in Access to ONT

Continuing with London Calling 2023, today I watched The Daily Preview with interviews with Thidathip Wongsurawat, Jon Hale, and Matt Loose. The recording was only eleven minutes long. Zoe McDougall from ONT Communications interviewed them. Wongsurawat spoke about the bottlenecks in cancer genomics in Bangkok. They were excited about automated analyses and pipelines that streamline […]
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Portable GPUs

Miles Benton from the Institute of Environmental Science and Research in New Zealand spoke at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 about “Affordable GPU compute makes nanopore sequencing even more disruptive and empowering.”Benton is a senior scientist, bioinformatician, and an advocate of open, reproducible science. They share their materials on GitHub. Benton spoke about the birth […]
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Undergraduate Research with the CREWS Project

Megan Radosevich from Carroll College presented at the Nanopore Community Meeting 2021 on “Analyzing regional and seasonal microbial community variation from a contaminated Montanana river.” Their project is called CREWS: Consortium for Research on Environmental Water Systems that is funded by the Montana NSF EPSCoR Partnership with several colleges and universities in Montana. A central […]
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