TY - JOUR
T1 - An idea to explore
T2 - How an interdisciplinary undergraduate course exploring a global health challenge in molecular detail enabled science communication and collaboration in diverse audiences
AU - Dutta, Shuchismita
AU - Jiang, Jennifer
AU - Ghosh, Sutapa
AU - Patel, Shriya
AU - Bhikadiya, Charmi
AU - Lowe, Robert
AU - Voigt, Maria
AU - Goodsell, David
AU - Zardecki, Christine
AU - Burley, Stephen
N1 - Funding Information:
National Institute of General Medical Sciences, Grant/Award Number: R01GM133198; National Science Foundation, Grant/Award Number: DBI‐1832184; State of New Jersey Department of Health, Grant/Award Numbers: DCHS19HDP030, DCHS20HDP017, OMMH21HDP013; U.S. Department of Energy, Grant/Award Number: DE‐SC0019749; National Cancer Institute; National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Funding information
Funding Information:
The interdisciplinary undergraduate course series, titled Molecular Anatomy Project, was initially developed collaboratively by author Dutta and Professor Emerita Helen M. Berman. The course format described in this paper was refined by authors Dutta and Burley. Authors Dutta, Ghosh, Bhikadiya, Lowe, Voigt, Goodsell, Zardecki, and Burley are RCSB PDB faculty members. The RCSB PDB is jointly funded by grants to author Burley from the National Science Foundation (No. DBI‐1832184), the U.S. Department of Energy (No. DE‐SC0019749), and the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Grant No. R01GM133198. RCSB PDB is a founding member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank partnership. We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of interdisciplinary undergraduate course students (Matthew J. Brown, Peter T. Davis, Matthew M. Kim, David Lo, Christopher Markosian, Avina S. Rami, and Kayla Tinio) in authoring the PDB‐101 Global Health articles, and high school educators (Meenakshi Bhattacharya, Blair Buck, Subha Eswaran, William Mott, Anne Sanelli, and Richard Tempsick) who participated in the collaborative curriculum development activities. We thank Shailja Mathur, Family & Community Health Sciences Senior Program Coordinator for collaborating on the science communication efforts leading to community education. This work was supported by the OMMH NJ DOH (Funding Nos. DCHS19HDP030, DCHS20HDP017, and OMMH21HDP013). Finally, we thank all the students, educators, and community members, who helped pilot various science communication efforts described herein.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Communication and collaboration are key science competencies that support sharing of scientific knowledge with experts and non-experts alike. On the one hand, they facilitate interdisciplinary conversations between students, educators, and researchers, while on the other they improve public awareness, enable informed choices, and impact policy decisions. Herein, we describe an interdisciplinary undergraduate course focused on using data from various bioinformatics data resources to explore the molecular underpinnings of diabetes mellitus (Types 1 and 2) and introducing students to science communication. Building on course materials and original student-generated artifacts, a series of collaborative activities engaged students, educators, researchers, healthcare professionals and community members in exploring, learning about, and discussing the molecular bases of diabetes. These collaborations generated novel educational materials and approaches to learning and presenting complex ideas about major global health challenges in formats accessible to diverse audiences.
AB - Communication and collaboration are key science competencies that support sharing of scientific knowledge with experts and non-experts alike. On the one hand, they facilitate interdisciplinary conversations between students, educators, and researchers, while on the other they improve public awareness, enable informed choices, and impact policy decisions. Herein, we describe an interdisciplinary undergraduate course focused on using data from various bioinformatics data resources to explore the molecular underpinnings of diabetes mellitus (Types 1 and 2) and introducing students to science communication. Building on course materials and original student-generated artifacts, a series of collaborative activities engaged students, educators, researchers, healthcare professionals and community members in exploring, learning about, and discussing the molecular bases of diabetes. These collaborations generated novel educational materials and approaches to learning and presenting complex ideas about major global health challenges in formats accessible to diverse audiences.
KW - Global Health
KW - Protein Data Bank
KW - collaboration
KW - community education
KW - diabetes mellitus
KW - educational resource development
KW - interdisciplinary course
KW - molecular structures
KW - open education resource
KW - science communication
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U2 - 10.1002/bmb.21699
DO - 10.1002/bmb.21699
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85144081269
SN - 1470-8175
JO - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
JF - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education
ER -