Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018
As CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas9 technology becomes more mainstream in life science research, it becomes critical for undergraduate instructors to devise engaging ways to bring the technology into their classrooms. To help meet this challenge, the National S...
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| author | Michael J. Wolyniak Shane Austin Lucian F. Bloodworth Dawn Carter Scott H. Harrison Tiffany Hoage Lisa Hollis-Brown Felicia Jefferson Alison Krufka Farida Safadi-Chamberlin Maria S. Santisteban Paula Soneral Beth VanWinkle Anil K. Challa |
| author_facet | Michael J. Wolyniak Shane Austin Lucian F. Bloodworth Dawn Carter Scott H. Harrison Tiffany Hoage Lisa Hollis-Brown Felicia Jefferson Alison Krufka Farida Safadi-Chamberlin Maria S. Santisteban Paula Soneral Beth VanWinkle Anil K. Challa |
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| description | As CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas9 technology becomes more mainstream in life science research, it becomes critical for undergraduate instructors to devise engaging ways to bring the technology into their classrooms. To help meet this challenge, the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop for undergraduate instructors in June 2018 at The Ohio State University in conjunction with the annual Association of Biology Laboratory Educators meeting based on a workflow developed by the workshop’s facilitators. Over the course of two and a half days, participants worked through a modular workflow for the use of CRISPR-Cas9 in a course-based (undergraduate) research experience (CURE) setting while discussing the barriers each of their institutions had to implementing such work, and how such barriers could be overcome. The result of the workshop was a team with newfound energy and confidence to implement CRISPR-Cas9 technology in their courses and the development of a community of undergraduate educators dedicated to supporting each other in the implementation of the workflow either in a CURE or modular format. In this article, we review the activities and discussions from the workshop that helped each participant devise their own tailored approaches of how best to bring this exciting new technology into their classes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f15d4f3bf01248cbbba7bf9b99092be92022-12-21T19:08:48ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologyJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education1935-78771935-78852019-01-0120110.1128/jmbe.v20i1.1702Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018Michael J. Wolyniak0Shane Austin1Lucian F. Bloodworth2Dawn Carter3Scott H. Harrison4Tiffany Hoage5Lisa Hollis-Brown6Felicia Jefferson7Alison Krufka8Farida Safadi-Chamberlin9Maria S. Santisteban10Paula Soneral11Beth VanWinkle12Anil K. Challa13Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences, The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Bridgetown, BB11000, BarbadosDepartment of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623Department of Biology, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411Department of Biology, University of Wisconsin—Stout, Menomonie, WI 54751Department of Biology, Pikes Peak Community College, Colorado Springs, CO 80906Department of Biology, Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, GA 31030Department of Biological Sciences, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC 28372Department of Biological Sciences, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN 55112Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623Department of Biology, The University of Alabama Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294As CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats)-Cas9 technology becomes more mainstream in life science research, it becomes critical for undergraduate instructors to devise engaging ways to bring the technology into their classrooms. To help meet this challenge, the National Science Foundation sponsored a workshop for undergraduate instructors in June 2018 at The Ohio State University in conjunction with the annual Association of Biology Laboratory Educators meeting based on a workflow developed by the workshop’s facilitators. Over the course of two and a half days, participants worked through a modular workflow for the use of CRISPR-Cas9 in a course-based (undergraduate) research experience (CURE) setting while discussing the barriers each of their institutions had to implementing such work, and how such barriers could be overcome. The result of the workshop was a team with newfound energy and confidence to implement CRISPR-Cas9 technology in their courses and the development of a community of undergraduate educators dedicated to supporting each other in the implementation of the workflow either in a CURE or modular format. In this article, we review the activities and discussions from the workshop that helped each participant devise their own tailored approaches of how best to bring this exciting new technology into their classes.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.v20i1.1702 |
| spellingShingle | Michael J. Wolyniak Shane Austin Lucian F. Bloodworth Dawn Carter Scott H. Harrison Tiffany Hoage Lisa Hollis-Brown Felicia Jefferson Alison Krufka Farida Safadi-Chamberlin Maria S. Santisteban Paula Soneral Beth VanWinkle Anil K. Challa Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018 Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education |
| title | Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018 |
| title_full | Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018 |
| title_fullStr | Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018 |
| title_short | Integrating CRISPR-Cas9 Technology into Undergraduate Courses: Perspectives from a National Science Foundation (NSF) Workshop for Undergraduate Faculty, June 2018 |
| title_sort | integrating crispr cas9 technology into undergraduate courses perspectives from a national science foundation nsf workshop for undergraduate faculty june 2018 |
| url | https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.v20i1.1702 |
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