Build-A-Genome and the “awesome power of undergraduates”

IF 3.3 3区生物学 Q2 GENETICS & HEREDITY

Genetics Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI:10.1093/genetics/iyae083

J. Boeke, J. Bader, Leighanne Basta, Yizhi Cai, Carolyn Chapman, Eric Cooper, Jessica Dymond, Jeffrey Han, Richard M Jones, Stephanie Lauer, Bing-Zhi Li, Debra Mathews, Nick Matinyan, Héloïse Muller, Robert Newman, Raquel Ordoñez Ciriza, Matthew Payea, Amanda Qu, Franziska Sandmeier, Lisa Z. Scheifele, Hashmat Sikder, Yingjin Yuan, Karen Zeller, Yu Zhao

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The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes individuals or groups who have had significant, sustained impact on genetics education at any level, from K-12 through graduate school and beyond. The 2024 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recipient Jef Boeke considers himself a geneticist turned engineer. He transformed his landmark synthetic yeast genome project into a research-heavy teaching course, revolutionizing molecular biology and genetics education. The Build-A-Genome course was developed to teach students basic practical molecular genetics while also providing the raw materials for a global genome synthesis project, Yeast 2.0. The course evolved over two decades to reflect the changing needs and opportunities for the project and the development of new technologies. In addition to educating a generation of college and high school students in a new way, it also developed a cadre of educators who developed similar courses and projects at a wide variety of research and educational institutions.

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构建基因组和 "大学生的强大力量"

伊丽莎白-W-琼斯卓越教育奖旨在表彰对从幼儿园到十二年级，再到研究生院及更高年级的遗传学教育具有重大而持续影响的个人或团体。2024 年伊丽莎白-琼斯卓越教育奖获得者杰夫-博克（Jef Boeke）认为自己是一位从遗传学家转变为工程师的人。他将自己具有里程碑意义的合成酵母基因组项目转化为一门重研究的教学课程，彻底改变了分子生物学和遗传学教育。Build-A-Genome（构建基因组）课程旨在向学生传授基本实用的分子遗传学知识，同时也为全球基因组合成项目 Yeast 2.0 提供原材料。该课程经过二十多年的发展，反映了项目需求和机会的变化以及新技术的发展。除了以新的方式教育一代大学生和高中生外，它还培养了一批教育工作者，他们在各种研究和教育机构开发了类似的课程和项目。

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Genetics GENETICS & HEREDITY-

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

6.10%

发文量

177

审稿时长

1.5 months

期刊介绍： GENETICS is published by the Genetics Society of America, a scholarly society that seeks to deepen our understanding of the living world by advancing our understanding of genetics. Since 1916, GENETICS has published high-quality, original research presenting novel findings bearing on genetics and genomics. The journal publishes empirical studies of organisms ranging from microbes to humans, as well as theoretical work. While it has an illustrious history, GENETICS has changed along with the communities it serves: it is not your mentor''s journal. The editors make decisions quickly – in around 30 days – without sacrificing the excellence and scholarship for which the journal has long been known. GENETICS is a peer reviewed, peer-edited journal, with an international reach and increasing visibility and impact. All editorial decisions are made through collaboration of at least two editors who are practicing scientists. GENETICS is constantly innovating: expanded types of content include Reviews, Commentary (current issues of interest to geneticists), Perspectives (historical), Primers (to introduce primary literature into the classroom), Toolbox Reviews, plus YeastBook, FlyBook, and WormBook (coming spring 2016). For particularly time-sensitive results, we publish Communications. As part of our mission to serve our communities, we''ve published thematic collections, including Genomic Selection, Multiparental Populations, Mouse Collaborative Cross, and the Genetics of Sex.