Meet-U: Educating through research immersion

We present a new educational initiative called Meet-U that aims to train students for collaborative work in computational biology and to bridge the gap between education and research. Meet-U mimics the setup of collaborative research projects and takes advantage of the most popular tools for collabo...

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Veröffentlicht in:PLoS computational biology 2018-03, Vol.14 (3), p.e1005992-e1005992
Hauptverfasser: Abdollahi, Nika, Albani, Alexandre, Anthony, Eric, Baud, Agnes, Cardon, Mélissa, Clerc, Robert, Czernecki, Dariusz, Conte, Romain, David, Laurent, Delaune, Agathe, Djerroud, Samia, Fourgoux, Pauline, Guiglielmoni, Nadège, Laurentie, Jeanne, Lehmann, Nathalie, Lochard, Camille, Montagne, Rémi, Myrodia, Vasiliki, Opuu, Vaitea, Parey, Elise, Polit, Lélia, Privé, Sylvain, Quignot, Chloé, Ruiz-Cuevas, Maria, Sissoko, Mariam, Sompairac, Nicolas, Vallerix, Audrey, Verrecchia, Violaine, Delarue, Marc, Guérois, Raphael, Ponty, Yann, Sacquin-Mora, Sophie, Carbone, Alessandra, Froidevaux, Christine, Le Crom, Stéphane, Lespinet, Olivier, Weigt, Martin, Abboud, Samer, Bernardes, Juliana, Bouvier, Guillaume, Dequeker, Chloé, Ferré, Arnaud, Fuchs, Patrick, Lelandais, Gaëlle, Poulain, Pierre, Richard, Hugues, Schweke, Hugo, Laine, Elodie, Lopes, Anne
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Zusammenfassung:We present a new educational initiative called Meet-U that aims to train students for collaborative work in computational biology and to bridge the gap between education and research. Meet-U mimics the setup of collaborative research projects and takes advantage of the most popular tools for collaborative work and of cloud computing. Students are grouped in teams of 4-5 people and have to realize a project from A to Z that answers a challenging question in biology. Meet-U promotes "coopetition," as the students collaborate within and across the teams and are also in competition with each other to develop the best final product. Meet-U fosters interactions between different actors of education and research through the organization of a meeting day, open to everyone, where the students present their work to a jury of researchers and jury members give research seminars. This very unique combination of education and research is strongly motivating for the students and provides a formidable opportunity for a scientific community to unite and increase its visibility. We report on our experience with Meet-U in two French universities with master's students in bioinformatics and modeling, with protein-protein docking as the subject of the course. Meet-U is easy to implement and can be straightforwardly transferred to other fields and/or universities. All the information and data are available at www.meet-u.org.
ISSN:1553-7358
1553-734X
1553-7358
DOI:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005992