Genome Consortium for Active Teaching: Meeting the Goals of BIO2010

GCAT gratefully thanks several agencies for financial contribution: The Waksman Foundation for Microbiology, National Science Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (grants 52005120, 52005137, 52005202, and 52005328), Associated Colleges of the South, Davidson College, Pomona College, and Missouri Western State University. Many investigators have donated time and resources to GCAT: Patrick Brown, Barbara Dunn, Leroy Hood, Michael Katz, Krassen Dimitrov, John Aitchison, Steve Proper, Richard Bookman, Jef Boeke, Anna Ballew, Corey Nislow, Fred Blatner, Patrick Schnable, David Galbraith, Elaine Mardis, Sarah C. R. Elgin, Seth Crosby, and Chris Sawyer. We thank Sally O'Connor, Diane Okamuro, Mary Clutter, Machi Dilworth, Gerald Selzer, Rob Last, and Angela Klaus at NSF for their vision, guidance, and encouragement. We thank the Institute for Systems Biology, Georgetown University, and Morehouse College for hosting our first three workshops. We also thank Peggy Maiorano for invaluable support at Davidson and all the GCAT faculty and students who have willingly ventured into uncharted educational territory. GCAT faculty workshops were funded by four NSF grants: DBI-0627478 (2006–2010), DBI-0520908 (2005), DBI-0408386 (2004), and DBI-0305176 (2003). NSF also funded the first microarray scanner for GCAT via grant DBI-0099720.