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ArticleBiochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2021

A remote undergraduate biology seminar on SARS-CoV-2 literature.

Alessandra C Leri

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Article in Biochemistry and molecular biology education : a bimonthly publication of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Alessandra C LeriDepartment of Natural Sciences, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, New York, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5641-1173

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

At our small liberal arts college, we require undergraduates majoring in Biology and Biomedical Sciences to take a seminar in the spring of their senior year. Each year, the seminar focuses on a different topic in molecular biology and/or biochemistry. The course operates as a "journal club"-every week, a student presents a peer-reviewed research article, and the instructor moderates a discussion. When the transition to remote learning occurred due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, the seminar meetings were moved online to a Zoom-based platform, and the course topic was changed to focus on emerging research regarding the novel coronavirus. The continuation of the Biology senior seminar in a remote context was straightforward, and the SARS-CoV-2 virus furnished a rich theme for exploration of diverse topics in molecular biology and genetics.

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COVID-19Education, DistanceSARS-CoV-2BiologyCurriculumHumansNew York CityPandemicsPublicationsStudentsUniversitiesactive learningbiology seminarbiotechnology educationCOVID-19curriculum designdistance learningintegration of research into undergraduate teachingjournal clublearning and Web-based learningremote learning

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PMID33660919
PMCPMC8013813

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