Teaching Quantitative Biology Online

Joseph Mario Battistelli

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• Organization

  Virginia Commonwealth University
• Website

  http://rampages.us/joebattistelli/
• ORCID

  0000-0003-3063-076X
• Reason

  (not set)
• Interests

  1. A Song of Ice and Fire
  2. bike riding
  3. biology
  4. books & movies
  5. botanical gardens
  6. carbon
  7. chemistry
  8. environmental science
  9. farmers' markets
  10. house plants
  11. infectious disease
  12. Knitting
  13. Marvel Comic Movies
  14. microbiology
  15. nitrogen
  16. public health
  17. water quality and resource allocation
  18. water resources
• Biography

  I am teaching faculty in the Department of Biology at Virginia Commonwealth University. My research was on the distribution of ammonia oxidizing and nitrite oxidizing bacteria in engineered systems for water reclamation. My research used mathematical analysis to answer biological questions. I put a lot of effort into integrating word problems into my Biology courses that require students to think critically and see how mathematical formulas can describe life. This is mostly accomplished with stoichiometry and growth curves. I also teach an online course called Quantitative Biology that focuses on getting students to perform statistics on a data set to answer a biological question.