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Board 427: US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES Year 2: Improving Student Preparedness

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Conference

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Baltimore , Maryland

Publication Date

June 25, 2023

Start Date

June 25, 2023

End Date

June 28, 2023

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Tagged Topics

Diversity and NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page Count

5

DOI

10.18260/1-2--42774

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https://peer.asee.org/42774

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114

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Mark A Chapman University of San Diego Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0001-9905-4022

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Mark Chapman is an assistant professor at the University of San Diego in the Department of Integrated Engineering. His interests lie in the fields of skeletal muscle mechanics, muscle disease, exercise physiology, international education and engineering education. He earned his MS and PhD in bioengineering from the University of California, San Diego and a B.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

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Abstract

This National Science Foundation (NSF) International Research Experience for Students (IRES) site centers around a common theme of bioinformatics. Students selected for this program spend 10 weeks at the Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab) in Stockholm, Sweden using and developing bioinformatics tools to analyze ‘-omics’ (i.e. genomic, transcriptomic, and proteomic) data generated from human subjects. Since the program’s inception, a significant amount of effort has been made developing programming to prepare students for their research projects. Specifically, technical training sessions focused on coding languages and professional development sessions focused on scientific communication have been developed and provided to the IRES students during the first two years of the program. While both technical and non-technical trainings have been developed for this IRES site, the focus of this paper is to highlight the technical training sessions since these materials were identified as an area for improvement in the external evaluation following the program’s first year.

Chapman, M. A. (2023, June), Board 427: US-Sweden Bioinformatics IRES Year 2: Improving Student Preparedness Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--42774

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