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Facilitating Growth through Frustration: Using Genomics Research in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience

David Lopatto 1
Anne G. Rosenwald 2
Justin R. DiAngelo 3
Amy T. Hark 4
Matthew Skerritt 5
Matthew Wawersik 6
Anna K. Allen 7
Consuelo Alvarez 8
Sara Anderson 9
Cindy Arrigo 10
Andrew Arsham 11
Daron Barnard 12
Christopher Bazinet 13
James E.J. Bedard 14
Indrani Bose 15
John M Braverman 16
Martin G. Burg 17
Rebecca C. Burgess 18
Paula Croonquist 19
Chunguang Du 20
Sondra Dubowsky 21
Heather Eisler 22
Matthew A Escobar 23
Michael Foulk 24
Emily Furbee 25
Thomas Giarla 26
Rivka L. Glaser 18
Anya L Goodman 27
Yuying Gosser 28
Adam Haberman 29
Charles Hauser 30
Shan Hays 31
Carina E Howell 32
Jennifer Jemc 33
M Logan Johnson 34
Christopher J. Jones 35
Lisa Kadlec 36
Jacob D Kagey 37
Kimberly L Keller 38
Jennifer Kennell 39
S Catherine Silver Key 40
Adam J Kleinschmit 41
Melissa Kleinschmit 41
Nighat P Kokan 42
Olga Ruiz Kopp 43
Meg M Laakso 44
Judith Leatherman 45
Lindsey J Long 46
Mollie Manier 47
Juan C Martinez Cruzado 48
Luis F Matos 49
Amie Jo Mcclellan 50
Gerard Mcneil 51
Evan Merkhofer 52
Vida Mingo 53
Hemlata Mistry 54
Elizabeth Mitchell 21
Nathan T. Mortimer 55
Debaditya Mukhopadhyay 56
Jennifer Leigh Myka 57
Alexis Nagengast 58
Paul Overvoorde 59
Don Paetkau 60
Leocadia Paliulis 61
Susan Parrish 62
Mary Lai Preuss 63
James V. Price 43
Nicholas A. Pullen 45
Catherine Reinke 64
Dennis Revie 65
Srebrenka Robic 66
Jennifer A Roecklein Canfield 67
Michael R Rubin 68
Takrima Sadikot 69
Jamie Siders Sanford 70
María Santisteban 71
Kenneth Saville 72
Stephanie Schroeder 63
Christopher D. Shaffer 73
Karim A. Sharif 74
Diane E Sklensky 75
Chiyedza Small 76
Mary Smith 77
Sheryl Smith 78
Rebecca Spokony 79
Aparna Sreenivasan 80
Joyce Stamm 81
Rachel Sterne-Marr 26
Katherine C Teeter 82
Justin Thackeray 83
Jeffrey S. Thompson 84
Stephanie Toering Peters 85
Melanie Van Stry 75
Norma Velazquez Ulloa 86
Cindy Wolfe 87
James Youngblom 88
Brian Yowler 89
Leming Zhou 90
Janie Brennan 91
Jeremy Buhler 92
Wilson Leung 73
Laura K Reed 93
Sarah C.R Elgin 73
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Publication typeJournal Article
Publication date2020-01-09
scimago Q2
wos Q3
SJR0.518
CiteScore3.2
Impact factor1.5
ISSN19357877, 19357885
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
General Immunology and Microbiology
Education
Abstract

A hallmark of the research experience is encountering difficulty and working through those challenges to achieve success. This ability is essential to being a successful scientist, but replicating such challenges in a teaching setting can be difficult. The Genomics Education Partnership (GEP) is a consortium of faculty who engage their students in a genomics Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE). Students participate in genome annotation, generating gene models using multiple lines of experimental evidence. Our observations suggested that the students’ learning experience is continuous and recursive, frequently beginning with frustration but eventually leading to success as they come up with defendable gene models. In order to explore our “formative frustration” hypothesis, we gathered data from faculty via a survey, and from students via both a general survey and a set of student focus groups. Upon analyzing these data, we found that all three datasets mentioned frustration and struggle, as well as learning and better understanding of the scientific process. Bioinformatics projects are particularly well suited to the process of iteration and refinement because iterations can be performed quickly and are inexpensive in both time and money. Based on these findings, we suggest that a dynamic of “formative frustration” is an important aspect for a successful CURE.

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@article{2020_Lopatto,
author = {David Lopatto and Anne G. Rosenwald and Justin R. DiAngelo and Amy T. Hark and Matthew Skerritt and Matthew Wawersik and Anna K. Allen and Consuelo Alvarez and Sara Anderson and Cindy Arrigo and Andrew Arsham and Daron Barnard and Christopher Bazinet and James E.J. Bedard and Indrani Bose and John M Braverman and Martin G. Burg and Rebecca C. Burgess and Paula Croonquist and Chunguang Du and Sondra Dubowsky and Heather Eisler and Matthew A Escobar and Michael Foulk and Emily Furbee and Thomas Giarla and Rivka L. Glaser and Anya L Goodman and Yuying Gosser and Adam Haberman and Charles Hauser and Shan Hays and Carina E Howell and Jennifer Jemc and M Logan Johnson and Christopher J. Jones and Lisa Kadlec and Jacob D Kagey and Kimberly L Keller and Jennifer Kennell and S Catherine Silver Key and Adam J Kleinschmit and Melissa Kleinschmit and Nighat P Kokan and Olga Ruiz Kopp and Meg M Laakso and Judith Leatherman and Lindsey J Long and Mollie Manier and Juan C Martinez Cruzado and others},
title = {Facilitating Growth through Frustration: Using Genomics Research in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience},
journal = {Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education},
year = {2020},
volume = {21},
publisher = {American Society for Microbiology},
month = {jan},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2005},
number = {1},
doi = {10.1128/jmbe.v21i1.2005}
}