Julie A Merkle, Olivier Devergne, Seth M Kelly, Paula A Croonquist, Cory J Evans, Melanie A Hwalek, Victoria L Straub, Danielle R Hamill, Alexandra Peister, David P Puthoff, Ken J Saville, Jamie L Siders, Zully J Villanueva Gonzalez, Jacqueline K Wittke-Thompson, Kayla L Bieser, Joyce Stamm, Alysia D Vrailas-Mortimer, Jacob D Kagey
The Fly-CURE is a genetics-focused multi-institutional Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that provides undergraduate students with hands-on research experiences within a course. Through the Fly-CURE, undergraduate students at diverse types of higher education institutions across the United States map and characterize novel mutants isolated from a genetic screen in Drosophila melanogaster . To date, more than 20 mutants have been studied across 20 institutions, and our scientific data have led to eleven publications with more than 500 students as authors...
December 2023: Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education: JMBE