Students in biology professor Carolin Frank’s lab last year didn’t do “cookbook” lab experiments, following instructions toward an expected result. Instead, in another example of the undergraduate research opportunities available to UC Merced students, they worked on the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute project to annotate the genome of a particular type of bacteria.Frank was accepted as a faculty collaborator in the “Adopt a Genome Program” late last year, allowing her students to annotate the genome of Atopobium parvulum, a bacterium commonly found in a person’s mouth.
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