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Unearthing soil biodiversity through collaborative genomic research and education

Unearthing soil biodiversity through collaborative genomic research and education

, Tristen Alberts ¹, Claude F Albritton ², Rosa Alcazar ³, Zainab Aljabri ⁴, Maria Alvarez ⁵, Anish Aradhey ⁶, Mentewab Ayalew ⁷, Nareh Azizian ⁸, Yasmeen Balayah ⁴, Destiny D Ball ², Efren Barragan ⁵, Corey Beshoar ⁶, Lyle Best ⁹, Emily Biggane ¹⁰, Joseph Biggane ¹¹, Jesse Blick ⁴, Myron Blosser ⁶, Alex Kenneth Brown ¹², Michael C Campbell ¹³, Zoe Canizares ¹⁴, Faith N Chanhuhwa ⁵, Yu Chen ¹⁵, Daniel R Chin ¹⁶, Kamal Chowdhury ¹⁷, Tyler Collins ¹⁸, Blair Compton ¹⁹, Jefferson Da Silva ²⁰, Nia R Davis ²¹, Natalie DeCaro ²², Frida Delgadillo ²³, Youping Deng ¹⁵, Joceph Duncan ²⁴, Arinzechukwu C Egwu ²⁵, Grace D Ekalle ²⁰, Noha Elnawam ²⁴, Ray Enke ¹⁹, Naomi Ewhe ²⁰, Marco A Ferrel ⁵, Janna Fierst ²⁶, Grace Freymiller ³, Karla Fuller ²⁷, Lena Fulton-Wright ⁶, Valeriya Gaysinskaya ¹⁸, Torrence Gill ¹², Ellie Gillespie ⁴, Perla Gonzalez Moreno ²⁸, Sara Goodwin ²⁹, Natajha Graham ²¹, Madeline E Graham ³⁰, Joseph L Graves ³¹, Emily Grob ³², Rachael Gutierrez ³, Aisha Hager ⁴, Shazia Tabassum Hakim ³³, Aaliyah Harris ³⁴, Ava M Hoffman ³⁵, Tobias Hoffmann ²¹, Alani M Horton ²⁵, Allison Hughes ¹¹, Elizabeth M Humphries ³⁶, Josh-Samuel Ikechi-Konkwo ⁵, Aadil Ishtiaq ¹⁴, Ryan Jackson ¹⁹, Joshua Ronnie James ¹², Kaitlan James ³³, Sydney A Jamison ², Armando Jimenez ²³, Rachel Johnson ²⁰, Abigail Kauffman ⁶, Harkiran Kaur ³, Kritika Kc ²⁰, Analyse Keeton ⁴, Olivia E Kelly ⁵, Jennifer Kerr ²⁰, Nataliya Kucher ¹⁸, Donna Lee Kuehu ¹⁵, Wendy A Larson ¹¹, Joslynn Lee ²², Andrew Lee ³⁷, Jeffrey T Leek ³⁶, Danilo Lemaic ¹⁹, Lincoln E Liburd ², Alan Fernando Lopez ³, Mohammadamin Mahmanzar ¹⁵, Karwitha Mamae ⁴, Raffi Manjikian ¹⁴, Michael Marone ²⁵, Katerin Marquez ¹⁴, Amara Martinson ¹, Senem Mavruk Eskipehlivan ²⁹, Ashley Medrano ¹⁴, Melanie Melendrez-Vallard ⁴, Robert Meller ³⁸, Loyda B Méndez ³⁹, Miguel P Mendez Gonzalez ⁴⁰, Nicolli Mesquita ³⁴, Concepcion Martinez Miller ⁴¹, Isam Mohd-Ibrahim ¹⁵, Peter Mortensen ¹, Stephen Mosher ¹⁸, Alketa Muja ¹⁴, Nadia Nasrin ³⁴, Masaki Nasu ¹⁵, Matthew H Nguyen ¹⁸, Ba Thong Nguyen ¹⁵, Michele Nishiguchi ²⁸, Lance M O'Connor ¹⁸, Disomi Okie ²⁰, Tolulope Olowookorun ²⁰, Alex Ostrovsky ¹⁸, Keyan Ozuna ²³, Asmita Pandey ¹⁵, Shiv B Patel ², Gauri Paul ³, Shrikant Pawar ¹⁷, Andrea Pearson ³⁸, Deborah Petrik ⁴², Jordan Platero ²², Carl Pontino ⁴³, Arjun P Pratap ², Siddharth Pratap ², Yujia Qin ¹⁵, Sudhir Kumar Rai ¹⁵, Nisttha Ray ²⁰, Ethan Repesh ¹⁹, Kristen Rhinehardt ³¹, Brennan Roche ¹¹, Ariana Rodriguez ²⁰, Shriya Roy ⁴⁴, Sourav Roy ²³, Alexa Sawa ⁴⁵, Michael C Schatz ⁴⁶, Shurjo K Sen ⁴⁷, Randon Serikawa ³⁶, Tyler Smith ⁴⁸, Loraye Smith ²⁰, James Sniezek ⁴⁹, Ryley D Stewart ⁵, Edu B Suarez-Martinez ⁵⁰, Joelle Taganna ³⁶, Frederick J Tan ¹⁸, Nikolaos Tsotakos ⁵¹, Nwanneka Udolisa ²⁰, Katherine Ulbricht ²¹, Tanner Veo ¹, Jennifer Vessio ¹⁸, Lia Walker ¹², Oscar Wang ⁶, Qingguo Wang ², Robert Wappel ²⁹, Kalynn Wesby ¹⁷, Malachi Whitford ³, Nicole Wild ¹¹, Xianfa Xie ⁵², Hua Yang ¹⁵, Sayumi York ²⁰, Lindsay Zirkle ¹⁹

, Tristen Alberts ¹, Claude F Albritton ²

¹United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND, USA.
²Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, USA.
³Clovis Community College, Fresno, CA, USA.
⁴Anoka Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, MN, USA.
⁵El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX, USA.
⁶Harrisonburg High School, Harrisonburg, VA, USA.
⁷Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA. mayalew@spelman.edu.
⁸Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
⁹Turtle Mountain Community College, Belcourt, ND, USA.
¹⁰United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND, USA. ebiggane@uttc.edu.
¹¹University of Mary, Bismarck, ND, USA.
¹²Chowan University, Murfreesboro, NC, USA.
¹³University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
¹⁴Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, NJ, USA.
¹⁵University of Hawaii - Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA.
¹⁶University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA.
¹⁷Claflin University, Orangeburg, SC, USA.
¹⁸Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
¹⁹James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA.
²⁰Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
²¹Spelman College, Atlanta, GA, USA.
²²Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, USA.
²³University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA.
²⁴Northern VA Community College- Alexandria, Annandale, VA, USA.
²⁵Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, USA.
²⁶Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
²⁷Guttman Community College, New York, NY, USA. karla.fuller@guttman.cuny.edu.
²⁸University of California, Merced, Merced, CA, USA.
²⁹Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA.
³⁰Towson University, Towson, MD, USA.
³¹North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA.
³²Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
³³Diné College, Tsaile, AZ, USA.
³⁴Guttman Community College, New York, NY, USA.
³⁵Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA. ahoffma2@fredhutch.org.
³⁶Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
³⁷Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.
³⁸Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA.
³⁹Universidad Ana G. Méndez - Carolina, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
⁴⁰University of Puerto Rico - Aguadilla, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
⁴¹Dona Ana Community College, Las Cruces, NM, USA.
⁴²Northeast State University of Oklahoma, Tahlequah, OK, USA.
⁴³University of Washington - Seattle, Seattle, WA, USA.
⁴⁴Citrus Valley High School, Redlands, CA, USA.
⁴⁵College of the Desert, Palm Desert, CA, USA.
⁴⁶Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA. michael.schatz@gmail.com.
⁴⁷National Human Genome Research Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA.
⁴⁸College of Southern Maryland, La Plata, MD, USA.
⁴⁹University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁵⁰University of Puerto Rico - Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
⁵¹Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA, USA.
⁵²Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA, USA. xxie@vsu.edu.

⁰United Tribes Technical College, Bismarck, ND, USA.

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