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HideLois Banta
Williams College
Project Leader
Teaching Big Science at Small Colleges: a Genomics Collaboration part of Teaching Genomics at Small Colleges
This program supported a national consortium of faculty members from liberal arts colleges in learning about genomics, developing teaching materials, and devising tools to evaluate the efficacy of their genomics curricular innovations.
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Using Metagenomics to Investigate Microbial Diversity part of Teaching Genomics at Small Colleges:Genomics Instructional Units Minicollection
Using Winogradsky columns, a soil enrichment culture, students explore microbial diversity through metagenomics. The Winogradsky column is a complex community of interacting microorganisms. In a community such as ...
Comparison of a Highly Polymorphic Olfactory Receptor Gene Subfamily in Genetically Diverse Dog Breeds part of Teaching Genomics at Small Colleges:Genomics Instructional Units Minicollection
Students design primers specific for a particular subfamily of polymorphic canine olfactory genes, use PCR to amplify the genes, and compare the sequences of the products obtained for a diverse population of dogs.