Correction: Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013303.].
Branco, Sara↗
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Dow, Ellen G
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Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery
Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions in health and biotechnology. Also, opportunities for training in fungal biology and genomics are lacking, creating a bottleneck that hinders the recruitment and cultivation of a talented future mycological workforce. To address these issues, we developed Myco-Ed, an educational program offering training and scientific contributions through genome sequencing and analysis. Myco-Ed empowers students to pursue careers in fungal biology while improving fungal resources. Myco-Ed has been piloted at 12 institutions (15 classrooms) ranging from online e-Campuses to R1 universities, resulting in hundreds of fungal observations and many new high-quality reference genomes.
Branco, Sara↗
KBase Educators Handbook
The KBase Educators Handbook is a community resource for educators teaching biology, computational biology, and bioinformatics using KBase. The Handbook includes supporting documentation on how to join and access community-developed resources for teaching with KBase, best practices, and guidelines on how to contribute to the KBase Educators Community.
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