Judul: Analisis Faktor-Faktor yang Memengaruhi Prestasi Mahasiswa pada Departemen Manajemen FEM IPB
Abstrak: IPB berada pada empat besar peringkat Kementerian Riset dan Pendidikan Tinggi selama tiga tahun berturut-turut, namun IPB masih memiliki peringkat kemahasiswaan yang terendah dibandingkan tiga universitas lain dalam peringkat tersebut. Salah satu komponen nilai kemahasiswaan adalah prestasi mahasiswanya. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk 1) mengidentifikasi karakteristik mahasiswa yang berprestasi, 2) menganalisis persepsi mengenai faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi prestasi mahasiswa, 3) menganalisis pengaruh antara faktor-faktor yang memengaruhi prestasi mahasiswa terhadap prestasi mahasiswa, 4) mengidentifikasi Net Promoter Score alumni terhadap IPB. Studi kasus pada penelitian ini adalah alumni Departemen Manajemen FEM IPB. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data primer dan sekunder. Sedangkan, metode yang digunakan adalah analisis deskriptif, SEM-PLS, dan Net Promoter Score. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa faktor lingkungan, fisiologis dan psikologis memengaruhi prestasi mahasiswa secara signifikan.
Keyword: prestasi, mahasiswa, pendidikan tinggi, SEM PLS

Judul: Analisis Faktor Eksternal dan Internal yang Mempengaruhi Prestasi Mahasiswa (Studi Kasus Alumni Program Sarjana Manajemen FEM IPB)
Abstrak: Student achievement not only rated by the GPA, but affective, cognitive and also pshychomotor. To achieve the third component and to get good GPA there is several factors affecting achievement process both external and internal factors. Analyze factors needs to be done to know factors that affecting students achievement with case studies of alumni Management FEM IPB. SEM test with SmartPLS software can be assessed that factor instrumental and psychological is the most influential with each of the T-statistic value are 3,203 and 5,554. Instrumental is an external factor that deliberately design as affecting factor process and learning factor that described by the administration, lecturer, curriculum and facility. Psychological is an internal factor establish how act or behavior of student in conscious or not that can be described by the talents, interests, intelligence, motivation, and cognitive abilities of student.
Keyword: alumni, students, internal, external, achievement

Judul: Gene Editing  of Two Cyanide Synthesis-related Genes in Cassava using CRISPR/Cas9
Abstrak: Cassava (Manihot esculenta) contain toxic quantities of cyanogenic glucoside. Reducing the potentially toxic cyanogenic glucoside levels in cassava could be achieved by gene editing through Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats – CRISPR associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9), a high- precision genome editing technique in plants. Two cassava UDP- glucosyltransferase (UGT) paralogs, UGT85K4 and UGT85K5, are the genes catalyzing the synthesis of cyanogenic glucosides in plants. The study aimed to construct the CRISPR/Cas9 recombinant vector carrying single guide RNA (sgRNA) to edit UGT85K4 and UGT85K5 genes, and transform sgRNA CRISPR/Cas9 construct into KU50 cassava calli. Five sgRNAs were designed, considering the on/off target efficiency score and GC content. Those sgRNAs were ligated into pRGEB32 plasmid and introduced to competent Escherichia coli DH5a. The PCR colony and DNA sequencing were performed to verify the sgRNA insert. The amplicons showed the expected band size of recombinant vector (180 bp). Based on sequencing results, only one sgRNA was successfully ligated into the plasmid that will be used to edit the UGT85K5 gene. The sgRNA CRISPR/Cas9 construct in pRGEB32 plasmid was successfully transformed into Agrobacterium tumefaciens and introduced into KU50 cassava calli through co-cultivation. The overgrowth of Agrobacterium occurred after the co-cultivation phase.
Keyword: CRISPR/Cas9, Cyanogenic glucoside, Gene editing, sgRNA