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Navigating the human genome with first year students
For spring quarters 2023 and 2024, I had the unique experience of assisting in an undergraduate-level first-year seminar course-based undergraduate research experience (FYS-CURE) led by principal investigator Dr. Megan Dennis. We introduced basic molecular biology wet and dry labs to first-year freshman and transfer students to answer the question: What makes us uniquely human? By the end of the quarter, students put together a final presentation characterizing their human duplicated genes.
This experience solidified my interest in becoming a science faculty one day. Engaging with students in this course is one of the highlights of my undergraduate research career at UC Davis.
Below is the flyer we sent out for the spring 2024 class:
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