Undergraduate Research

January 20, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Delftia, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, sequencing, Softwares, Undergraduate Research, Website, Why, Workshop

Alignments and Assemblies

We began working with the VolTRAX2 today. I’m excited to use it for library preps along with the Miroculus Miro. Tonight I watched the NCM 2022 Masterclass session by Matt Attreed on “How to generate and call variants.” Attreed is a technical applications scientist (bioinformatics) with Oxford Nanopore Technologies. They began by providing an introduction […]

January 18, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Delftia, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, sequencing, Softwares, Undergraduate Research, Workshop

Flongles and Several MinIONs and PromethIONs

Austin Compton is a Technical Applications Specialist at Oxford Nanopore Technologies and presented a masterclass at NCM 2022. We’ve used the MinION but I don’t know as much about the PromethION and Flongle. Compton shared a slide that indicated that the Flongle flow cells have 126 pores, MinION flow cells have 512, and PromethION flow […]

January 17, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Delftia, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Softwares, Undergraduate Research, Website, Workshop

A Collection of Library Prep Options for Nanopore

Yan Yang from the Oxford Nanopore Technologies Technical Services North America West Coast Team, presented the NCM 2022 Masterclass “How to select the right library preparation workflow for your experiment.” Yang explained how Nanopore DNA/RNA sequencing works as the nucleic acid is passed through a nanopore and electrical signals are interpreted into sequence data. Yang […]

January 16, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Metagenomics, Oxford Nanopore Technologies, Reflections, sequencing, Undergraduate Research, Website

Considerations for High-quality DNA and RNA for Oxford Nanopore Sequencing

Tonight I started watching Oxford Nanopore Technologies NCM 2022 Masterclasses. The first recording I watched was by Vania Costa on “How to extract high-quality DNA and RNA.” They spoke about considerations for different fragment lengths. For example, you may want long and ultra-long DNA fragments for assembly. However, for cell-free DNA sequencing you are likely […]

January 7, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Articles, Case Studies, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Why

A Survey of RECR Education in CUREs

Tonight I watched the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Laura Diaz-Martinez. This session was in late fall 2021. It was moderated by Dr. Tissyana Camacho, and Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University. Dr. Diaz-Martinez is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Gonzaga and was my NSF ENCOUR pod mentor! […]

January 4, 2023
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Guest Speakers, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Undergraduate Research, Wellbeing, Why, Writing

A Course on Feedback, Mentoring, and Science Communication

Dr. Diedra Wrighting presented at the Online with LSE webinar series on “Teaching Undergrads to Communicate Science, Cultivate Mentoring Relationships, and Navigate Science Culture.” Wrighting is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development at Northeastern University in Boston. They emphasized the importance of mentoring and obtained funding to create a two-credit course in […]

December 30, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Articles, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, Undergraduate Research, Why

Learning from Struggles and Frustration

Justin DiAngelo from Penn State Berks, Amy Hark from Muhlenberg College, Anne Rosenwald from Georgetown University, and Matt Wawersik from William & Mary presented at JMBE Live over a year ago. I finally had a chance to watch this recording. They are all authors on the “Facilitating Growth through Frustration: Using genomics Research in a […]

December 21, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections, Student groups, UDL, Undergraduate Research, Wellbeing, Why

Antiracist Opportunities

Chelsey Nardi from the University of Colorado Denver is a doctoral candidate and presented at JMBE on their article about antiracist opportunities. The overview Nardi presented summarized the article: Nardi focused in the recorded session on the finding that “active learning does not equal inclusive teaching.” She also mentioned that authentic research experienced with unpaid […]

November 30, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, DBER and SoTL, Discussions, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Mentoring, Pedagogy, Reflections, Student groups, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Wellbeing, Why

Evaluation of Retention Strategies for STEM Students at Neumann University

Tonight I watched the recorded session for the ASMCUE poster entitled “Instructional and Retention Strategies for STEM Students Using Co-Curricular Science Courses.” Matt Mastropaolo from Neumann University spoke about their NSF-funded program for first-year students. The program supports “24 academically gifted students” who also have financial needs. The research team evaluated their program and learned […]

November 27, 2022
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Accessibility and UDL, Constructivism, Course Design, DBER and SoTL, Instructor Behaviors, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Why

A Hybrid Conjugation Lab

Tonight I watched the recording for the ASMCUE 2022 poster session “Hybrid Inquiry Based Lab Highlights Scientific Method Using Bacterial Conjugation as a Model.” Eileen M. Hotze from the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, was the presenter. Hotze spoke about the need for inquiry-based labs (IBL) and the […]