Education Program
The JGI’s recently created Education Program was conceived to develop educational programs and tools, centered on large-scale DNA sequencing and its bioinformatic analysis. It is expected that these programs and tools will be useful to a range of institution types, from research universities to community colleges. The products will also be adapted to high school outreach programs. Preliminary targets for the program are: (1) development of a genome annotation toolkit that will be used to train students to use search tools and databases sequenced specifically for this purpose by the JGI and (2) the development of online tools for undergraduate life sciences courses that leverage the existing Integrated Microbial Genome (IMG) and IMG/Microbiome (IMG/M) tools and databases. The JGI’s Education Program will also help plan genome-based research projects at high schools and undergraduate institutions. The concept is to build a variety of genome-scale research projects specifically for students, and tailored to the existing curriculum and interests of educators.
Program Head: Cheryl Kerfeld
