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Educational Activities for Students and Citizens Supporting the One-Health Approach on Antimicrobial Resistance. Antibiotics (Basel) 2021; 10:antibiotics10121519. [PMID: 34943732 PMCID: PMC8698298 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics10121519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/03/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security and development. Urgent action is needed at all levels of society to reduce the impact and spread of antibiotic resistance. For a more sustaining approach, education in children, college students, citizens and caregivers are essential. The One-Heath approach is a collaborative, multisectoral and transdisciplinary strategy in which, no single organizations or sector can address the issue of antimicrobial resistance at the human-environment interface alone. Within this strategy, education plays a central role. In this scoping review, we highlighted a range of learning activities on antibiotic resistance as part of the One-Health approach. In particular, those applications that can be introduced to a wide audience to help arrest the current crisis for the next generation. The review identifies a high number of teaching opportunities: board and role-play games, round tables, musicals, e-learning and environmental experiments to couple with more curricula and formal education to inform a diverse group of audiences.
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Murren CJ, Wolyniak MJ, Rutter MT, Bisner AM, Callahan HS, Strand AE, Corwin LA. Undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis Knockouts in a Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience: Exploring Plant Fitness and Vigor Using Quantitative Phenotyping Methods. JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOLOGY EDUCATION 2019; 20:jmbe-20-28. [PMID: 31316686 PMCID: PMC6608610 DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.v20i2.1650] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2018] [Accepted: 12/20/2018] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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We present a curriculum description, an initial student outcome investigation, and sample scientific results for a representative Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that is part of the "Undergraduates Phenotyping Arabidopsis Knockouts" (unPAK) network. CUREs in the unPAK network characterize quantitative phenotypes of the model plant Arabidopsis from across environments to uncover connections between genotype and phenotype. Students in unPAK CUREs grow plants in a replicated block design and make quantitative measurements throughout the semester. This CURE enables students to answer plant science questions that draw from fields such as environmental science, genetics, ecology, and evolution. Findings indicate that this experience provides students with opportunities to make relevant scientific discoveries. Eighty percent of student datasets produced from the CURE met criteria for inclusion in the project database, indicative of student learning in data collection and analysis of quantitative plant traits. Student datasets uncovered novel effects of mutation on plant form. In addition, students' science self-efficacy increased as a result of course participation, and faculty feedback on course implementation was positive. We present unPAK as a new network that supports CUREs and research experiences focused on collecting biological data made publicly available to the scientific community. The unPAK CUREs can be tailored to address instructor interests or pedagogical needs while involving students in research investigating quantitative plant phenotypes.
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Affiliation(s)
- Courtney J. Murren
- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424
- Corresponding authors. Mailing address: Courtney J. Murren, College of Charleston, Department of Biology, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424. Phone: 843-953-8077. E-mail: . Lisa A. Corwin, Mailing address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1900 Pleasant St. 334 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309. Phone: 303-735-5213. E-mail:
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027
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- Department of Biology, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
- Corresponding authors. Mailing address: Courtney J. Murren, College of Charleston, Department of Biology, 66 George Street, Charleston, SC 29424. Phone: 843-953-8077. E-mail: . Lisa A. Corwin, Mailing address: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1900 Pleasant St. 334 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309. Phone: 303-735-5213. E-mail:
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