Transitioning Cell Culture CURE Labs from Campus to Online: Novel Strategies for a Novel Time

Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) provide a way for students to gain research experience in a classroom setting. Few examples of cell culture CUREs or online CUREs exist in the literature. The Cell Biology Education Consortium (CBEC) provides a network and resources for instru...

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Main Authors: Jaime Sabel, Kendra Wright, Jacob Adler, Gary Bates, LaShall Bates, Sumali Pandey, Amanda Simons, Sarah Swerdlow, Nathan Reyna, Lori Hensley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-03-01
Series:Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education
Online Access:https://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/2619
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Summary:Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) provide a way for students to gain research experience in a classroom setting. Few examples of cell culture CUREs or online CUREs exist in the literature. The Cell Biology Education Consortium (CBEC) provides a network and resources for instructors working to incorporate cell-culture based research into the classroom. In this article, we provide examples from six instructors from the CBEC network on how they structure their cell-culture CUREs and how they transitioned the labs to online in the spring semester of 2020. We intend for these examples to provide instructors with ideas for strategies to set up cell culture CUREs, how to change that design mid-term, and for creating online CUREs in the future.
ISSN:1935-7877
1935-7885