The Bean Beetle Microbiome Project: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience in Microbiology.

ABSTRACT: Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) are an effective means of transforming the learning and teaching of science by involving students in the scientific process. The potential importance of the microbiome in shaping both environmental health and disease makes investigations of microbiomes an excellent teaching tool for undergraduate microbiology. Here, we present a CURE based on the microbiome of the bean beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus), a model system for undergraduate laboratory education. Despite the extensive research literature on bean beetles, little is known about their microbiome, making them an ideal system for a discovery-based CURE. In the CURE, students acquire microbiological technical skills by characterizing both culturable and unculturable member

SUBMITTER: Zelaya AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7522406 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature