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SELfies and CELLfies: Whole Genome Sequencing and Annotation of Five Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Isolated from the Surfaces of Smartphones, An Inquiry Based Laboratory Exercise in a Genomics Undergraduate Course at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

by Reginald Torres

Are touchscreen units a public well being danger for the transmission of pathogenic micro organism, particularly these which are immune to antibiotics? To examine this, we launched into a undertaking aimed at isolating and figuring out micro organism which are immune to antibiotics from the screens of smartphones.

Touchscreen units have turn into ubiquitous in society, and it is very important consider the potential dangers they pose in the direction of public well being, particularly because it pertains to the harboring and transmission of pathogenic micro organism which are immune to antibiotics. Sixteen micro organism had been initially remoted of which 5 had been distinctive (4 Staphylococcus species and one Micrococcus species).

The genomes of the 5 distinctive isolates had been subsequently sequenced and annotated. The genomes had been analyzed utilizing in silico instruments to foretell the synthesis of antibiotics and secondary metabolites utilizing the antibiotics and Secondary Metabolite Analysis SHell (antiSMASH) device in addition to the presence of gene clusters that denote resistance to antibiotics utilizing the Resistance Gene Identifier (RGI) device. In vivo evaluation was additionally carried out to evaluate resistance/susceptibility to 4 antibiotics which are generally used in a analysis laboratory setting.

The knowledge offered in this manuscript is the outcome of a semester-long inquiry based mostly laboratory train in the genomics course (BIOL340) in the Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences/College of Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

SELfies and CELLfies: Whole Genome Sequencing and Annotation of Five Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Isolated from the Surfaces of Smartphones, An Inquiry Based Laboratory Exercise in a Genomics Undergraduate Course at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
SELfies and CELLfies: Whole Genome Sequencing and Annotation of Five Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Isolated from the Surfaces of Smartphones, An Inquiry Based Laboratory Exercise in a Genomics Undergraduate Course at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Challenges and Opportunities for Genomics Education: Insights from an Institute of Medicine Roundtable Activity.

Despite the rising availability of genomic instruments for medical care, many well being care suppliers expertise gaps in genomics data and abilities that function impediments to widespread and acceptable integration of genomics into routine care.

A workshop lately held by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Translating Genomics-Based Research for Health explored

1) the boundaries that outcome in a notion amongst well being care suppliers that the want for genomics schooling is just not pressing and 2) the drivers which will spur a change in that perspective.

This commentary promotes persevering with and graduate education-informed by an consciousness of boundaries, drivers, and greatest practices-as the only approaches for making ready the workforce for genomic drugs and in the end bettering affected person care, and argues that the time for schooling is now.