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Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project: Citizen Science and Student-Based Discoveries for 15 Years and Counting.

Athena Lemon^1,2, Sarah R Bordenstein^1,2, Seth R Bordenstein^3,2,4.

Abstract

The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education recognizes an individual who has had a significant impact on genetics education at any education level. Seth R. Bordenstein, Ph.D., Centennial Professor of Biological Sciences at Vanderbilt University and Founding Director of the Vanderbilt Microbiome Initiative, is the 2020 recipient in recognition of his cofounding, developing, and expanding Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project.

Keywords: DNA; STEM workforce; citizen science; hands-on research; problem-based learning

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Year: 2020 PMID： 33023928 PMCID： PMC7536856 DOI： 10.1534/genetics.120.303649

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Genetics ISSN： 0016-6731 Impact factor: 4.562

16 in total

Review 1. Exploiting Intimate Relationships: Controlling Mosquito-Transmitted Disease with Wolbachia.

Authors: Eric P Caragata; Heverton L C Dutra; Luciano A Moreira
Journal: Trends Parasitol Date: 2015-11-20

2. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing.

Authors: Junjie Qin; Ruiqiang Li; Jeroen Raes; Manimozhiyan Arumugam; Kristoffer Solvsten Burgdorf; Chaysavanh Manichanh; Trine Nielsen; Nicolas Pons; Florence Levenez; Takuji Yamada; Daniel R Mende; Junhua Li; Junming Xu; Shaochuan Li; Dongfang Li; Jianjun Cao; Bo Wang; Huiqing Liang; Huisong Zheng; Yinlong Xie; Julien Tap; Patricia Lepage; Marcelo Bertalan; Jean-Michel Batto; Torben Hansen; Denis Le Paslier; Allan Linneberg; H Bjørn Nielsen; Eric Pelletier; Pierre Renault; Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten; Keith Turner; Hongmei Zhu; Chang Yu; Shengting Li; Min Jian; Yan Zhou; Yingrui Li; Xiuqing Zhang; Songgang Li; Nan Qin; Huanming Yang; Jian Wang; Søren Brunak; Joel Doré; Francisco Guarner; Karsten Kristiansen; Oluf Pedersen; Julian Parkhill; Jean Weissenbach; Peer Bork; S Dusko Ehrlich; Jun Wang
Journal: Nature Date: 2010-03-04 Impact factor: 49.962

Discover the Microbes Within! The Wolbachia Project: Citizen Science and Student-Based Discoveries for 15 Years and Counting.

Review 1. Exploiting Intimate Relationships: Controlling Mosquito-Transmitted Disease with Wolbachia.

2. A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing.

3. The incidence of bacterial endosymbionts in terrestrial arthropods.

4. Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness (Addenda 2013).

Review 5. Controlling vector-borne diseases by releasing modified mosquitoes.

Review 6. Wolbachia-mediated virus blocking in the mosquito vector Aedes aegypti.

Review 7. The Landscape of Genetic Content in the Gut and Oral Human Microbiome.

8. Wolbachia and virus protection in insects.

9. Microbe Profile: Wolbachia: a sex selector, a viral protector and a target to treat filarial nematodes.

10. The bacterial symbiont Wolbachia induces resistance to RNA viral infections in Drosophila melanogaster.

Review 1. Living in the endosymbiotic world of Wolbachia: A centennial review.