Dawn Hart and I have been collaborating on a Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience for first-year students at Grand Valley State University for a few years now. Students characterize planarian genes that we are interested in within the context of regeneration. We attended the Conference on the First Year Experience to present our collaborative approach to designing this CURE, which was also funded by our NSF CAREER award. Dawn and I have been colleagues since I was a graduate student and she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Gould Lab at Vanderbilt University. We love working together and are grateful for continued collaboration and fun!
