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The Cure For Cultivating Fastidious Microbes, William Wischusen, Arundhati Bakshi, Austen T. Webber, Lorelei E. Patrick
The Cure For Cultivating Fastidious Microbes, William Wischusen, Arundhati Bakshi, Austen T. Webber, Lorelei E. Patrick
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Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) expand the scientific educational benefits of research to large groups of students in a course setting. As part of an ongoing effort to integrate CUREs into first-year biology labs, we developed a microbiology CURE (mCURE) that uses a modified dilution-to-extinction high throughput culturing protocol for isolating abundant yet fastidious aquatic bacterioplankton during one semester. Students learn common molecular biology techniques like nucleic acid extraction, PCR, and molecular characterization; read and evaluate scientific literature; and receive training in scientific communication through written and oral exercises that incorporate social media elements. In the first three semesters, the …