Effectiveness of a Cloning and Sequencing Exercise on Student Learning with Subsequent Publication in the National Center for Biotechnology Information GenBank

Special thanks to Drs. Bryony Ruegg, Sandra Porter, and Melissa Woodrow for collaboration on the GAPDH project. We thank Dr. Laurie Usinger for thorough reading of the manuscript and helpful suggestions. As a student, Carolyn Payne spent many hours on background research. We appreciate all of our former Molecular Biology students at Bellarmine University who have made this exercise worthwhile over the past 5 yr. The collaboration of the Department of Energy-Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA, is much appreciated. This undergraduate research-based laboratory project was inspired by National Institutes of Health grant P20 RR16481 from the BRIN Program of the National Center for Research Resources. This manuscript is dedicated to the memory of Ron Mardigian for his commitment to biotechnology education.