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Meet-U: Educating through research immersion.

ABSTRACT: 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.

SUBMITTER: Abdollahi N

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5854232 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Meet-U: Educating through research immersion.

Abdollahi Nika N Albani Alexandre A Anthony Eric E Baud Agnes A Cardon Mélissa M Clerc Robert R Czernecki Dariusz D Conte Romain R David Laurent L Delaune Agathe A Djerroud Samia S Fourgoux Pauline P Guiglielmoni Nadège N Laurentie Jeanne J Lehmann Nathalie N Lochard Camille C Montagne Rémi R Myrodia Vasiliki V Opuu Vaitea V Parey Elise E Polit Lélia L Privé Sylvain S Quignot Chloé C Ruiz-Cuevas Maria M Sissoko Mariam M Sompairac Nicolas N Vallerix Audrey A Verrecchia Violaine V Delarue Marc M Guérois Raphael R Ponty Yann Y Sacquin-Mora Sophie S Carbone Alessandra A Froidevaux Christine C Le Crom Stéphane S Lespinet Olivier O Weigt Martin M Abboud Samer S Bernardes Juliana J Bouvier Guillaume G Dequeker Chloé C Ferré Arnaud A Fuchs Patrick P Lelandais Gaëlle G Poulain Pierre P Richard Hugues H Schweke Hugo H Laine Elodie E Lopes Anne A

PLoS computational biology 20180315 3

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," ...[more]

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