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REMNet - A National Network for Integrating the Study of Microbiomes into Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (RCN-UBE Introduction)

Author(s): Theodore Muth1, Davida Smyth2, Avrom Caplan3

1. CUNY Brooklyn College (REMNet Team) 2. Texas A&M San Antonio 3. The City University of New York

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The mission of REMNet’s “Microbiomes for All!” is to serve as a centralized hub for information and resources on the integration of microbiome studies into the undergraduate curriculum. RemNet focusses on how microbiomes are studied and how data…

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The mission of REMNet’s “Microbiomes for All!” is to serve as a centralized hub for information and resources on the integration of microbiome studies into the undergraduate curriculum. RemNet focusses on how microbiomes are studied and how data from microbiome projects can be analyzed by students.

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Version 1.0 - published on 15 May 2023 doi:10.25334/JX59-EQ90 - cite this

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Microbiomes play an important role in the function of many ecosystems in the environment and in human, plant, and animal health. Microbiomes can be studied through a combination of culture-dependent and -independent methods (i.e., metagenomics). Frequently microbiome studies generate enormous amounts of sequence data that can be difficult to analyze and study without specialized analysis pipelines. REMNet has worked to develop resources and provide training that allow faculty that do not have bioinformatics training to work with their students in collecting and analyzing data. Our support is intended to allow informative analyses without the need for coding skills or a formal training in DNA/RNA sequence analysis. We work primarily with faculty that focus on microbiology, ecology, general biology, genetics, environmental sciences, and other courses where bioinformatics are a tool, but not necessarily a primary learning objective.

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Guides for conducting 16S amplicon sequencing with your students.

 

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