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Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) expand access to authentic research and help students build skills for graduate study and workforce preparation. This is especially important at teaching focused, access-oriented institutions, where many students enter the workforce directly after completing their undergraduate degree. We are developing an interdisciplinary CURE in two upper-division courses, microbiology and animal physiology, investigating how different food sources affect fish gut microbiomes. In the animal physiology course, students conduct feeding studies and identify biochemical pathways associated with different food environments using metagenomics. In the microbiology course, students use the samples to characterize and sequence isolate bacterial species. Both courses will integrate Oxford Nanopore MinION long-read sequencing and KBase for genomic and metagenomic analysis. We will share the course design, discuss implementation challenges, and solicit feedback from biology educators interested in microbiome research, genomics, bioinformatics, interdisciplinary CUREs, or workforce-aligned teaching.
