Main goals:
- Write a white paper and produce a high-level guide for educating students about biological digital resources (databases, data repositories, web portals, etc).
Time a member dedicates to this working group on average (including meetings and assigned tasks):
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30-minute meetings every 2 weeks;
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Flexible time to contribute to writing and lesson planning (max. 2 hours per week).
Benefits of joining this working group:
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Paper authorship;
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Networking;
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Professional development;
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Opportunity to practice teaching in person.
Chair: Meg Staton
Co-Chair: Annarita Marrano
Current Members:
- Leyla Cabugos
- Megan O'Donnell
- Meg Staton
- Annarita Marrano
- Alenka Hafner
- Beant Kapoor
- Leonore Reiser
- John P. McNamara
- Marcela K. Tello-Ruiz (reviewer and liaison with Standards for Genetic Variation WG)
Past Members:
- Erin Antognoli
- Chao Cai
- Margaret Young
- Christine Girtain
Meeting Schedule: every two weeks on Tuesday at 11.10 AM ET | 10.10 AM CT | 9.10 AM MT | 8.10 AM PT
Products:
- Marrano A, Cabugos L, Hafner A, Kapoor B, McNamara J, O’Donnell M, Reiser L, Tello-Ruiz MK, Zhang H, Staton M. 2025. A teaching and training framework to promote findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable data generation in agriculture. Database. 2025:baaf034. doi: 10.1093/database/baaf034.
- Educational Curriculum URL: https://zenodo.org/records/14278084
Awards:
- AgBioData Education Awards - Up to $600 to individuals affiliated to an US institution for implementing the curriculum into existing courses, adding new modules and/or revising existing ones (including translation into other languages).
- USDA NIFA Teaching, Extension, and Research Awards (TERA)
For more information, please email agbiodata@gmail.com.
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