QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education

13 Jul 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, Jeremy M Wojdak, Nicole Chodkowski, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Deborah Rook, Elia Crisucci, Hayley Orndorf | doi:10.25334/Q41D8T

Poster on the QUBES project presented at the 2018 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer Workshop

Serenity now! Keep calm and do science with real data in the classroom

20 Jun 2018 | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar, Sam S Donovan, Hayley Orndorf | doi:10.25334/Q4Z425

Session on using real data in the classroom with Serenity, a platform-independent browser-based interface to data science tools for the classroom.

Intro to DNA Barcoding

28 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Oliver Hyman, Andrea Pesce, Elizabeth Doyle, Ray A Enke | doi:10.25334/Q4112R

This is a classroom tested introductory lesson & activity to introduce DNA Barcoding and DNA Subway Blue Line. It is for novices and will fit into a 30-45 min lecture or lab class period.

Intro to DNA Subway Blue Line

28 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Oliver Hyman, Andrea Pesce, Elizabeth Doyle, Ray A Enke | doi:10.25334/Q48H7N

This is a classroom tested introductory lesson & activity to introduce DNA Barcoding and DNA Subway Blue Line. It is for novices and will fit into a 1 hr 50 min lecture or lab class period.

Using DNA Subway to Analyze Sequence Relationships

28 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Jason Williams, Ray A. Enke, Oliver Hyman, Emily Lescak, Sam S Donovan, William Tapprich, Elizabeth F Ryder | doi:10.25334/Q4J111

This is a bioinformatics exercise using the DNA Subway Blue Line, a user-friendly pipeline of bioinformatics tools, to analyze a collection of mosquito DNA bar-code sequences.

Faculty professional development in quantitative biology promotes scholarly teaching

09 May 2018 | Contributor(s): Gabriela Hamerlinck, Kevin Kidder, Sondra Marie LoRe, Pam Bishop, Kristin Jenkins, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4640K

Poster presented at NABT 2017 in St. Louis, Missouri

Helping teachers and students learn with research data: The role of a scientific gateway for education

17 Apr 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4S40V

Presentation at the Cary Institute, April 5, 2018

Fostering and sustaining interdisciplinary faculty communities around undergraduate teaching: Insights from the QUBES project

05 Apr 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4K68Q

Presentation part of a minisymposium at the SIAM Applied Mathematics Education (ED18) conference, "Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education"

Development of the NIBLSE Learning Resource Collection and Incubators

16 Mar 2018 | Contributor(s): Bill Morgan, Sam S Donovan, Hayley Orndorf, Sabrina Robertson, Elizabeth Ryder, Michael Sierk, Anne Rosenwald, Liz Dinsdale, Eric Triplett, Mark A. Pauley, William Tapprich | doi:10.25334/Q4TX1G

Talk on the NIBLSE Resource Collection and Incubators given at several professional development confernces

Decoding, Critiquing, and Creating a Graph from the Ground Up

28 Feb 2018 | Contributor(s): Kiersten Nicole Newtoff, HHMI BioInteractive | doi:10.25334/Q45Q51

Students decipher a published graph with little supplemental information and are given more details in pieces before producing a new graph that displays the data more effectively and is easier to digest.

Integrating Natural History Collections into Undergraduate Education: Creating the Resources and Growing the Community

19 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Anna Monfils, Libby Ellwood, Debra Linton, Molly Phillips, Joseph Cook, Joseph Kerski, Karen Powers, Tracy Barbaro, Sam S Donovan, Robert Guralnick, L. Alan Prather | doi:10.25334/Q42Q3B

Presentation given at SPNHC

Confronting the challenges of bringing research data into undergraduate classrooms using online faculty mentoring networks

19 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Arietta Fleming-Davies, Gabriela Hamerlinck, Alison N Hale, Tom Langen, Teresa Mourad, Kristin Jenkins, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4B69X

Poster on using ecological research data in undergraduate courses

Incubators: A community based model for improving the usability of bioinformatics learning resources

19 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Hayley Orndorf, Bill Morgan, Neal Grandgenett, Mark A. Pauley, Elizabeth Ryder, Michael Sierk, Robin Wright, Anne Rosenwald, Liz Dinsdale, Eric Triplett, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4KQ30

Poster on Incubators, a NIBLSE and QUBES collaboration presented at Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference - Chicago, IL

Visualization: Quantitative reasoning via image analysis, networks, topology, generative models, and 3D rendering

18 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, John R Jungck | doi:10.25334/Q4W39V

Resource from the 2015 BioQUEST Summer Workshop

2014 QUBES Minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Drew LaMar, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Jeremy M Wojdak, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Sam S Donovan, Kristin Jenkins, Tom Gower | doi:10.25334/Q4JM3N

Collection of presentations that were part of a minisymposium at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research in 2014.

2015 Quantitative Biology Education Summit

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Kristin Jenkins, Sam S Donovan, Tanya Dewey, Tom Gower, Drew LaMar | doi:10.25334/Q42M39

Abstract for a meeting, 2015 Quantitative Biology Education Summit.

The Effect of Instructor Communication on Student Perceptions of Mathematics in Biology

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Hayley Orndorf | doi:10.25334/Q4NH3J

Undergraduate research poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015.

Characterizing the Quantitative Biology Curricula from Institutions Across the United States

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Wendy Jo Levenson, Monika Norea Herbst, Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale | doi:10.25334/Q4X094

Undergraduate research poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015.

Pre-Health Students' Attitudes towards the Relative Importance of Biology and Statistics for their Preparation for Professional School

03 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Atteh Akoto, Michelle Garber-Talamo, Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale | doi:10.25334/Q45H36

Undergraduate research poster presented at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh in 2015.

QUBES: Building a community to promote undergraduate quantitative biology education

02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Alison N Hale, Arietta Fleming-Davies, Sam S Donovan | doi:10.25334/Q4Z082

This was a poster session at the 2015 Ecological Society of America meeting in Baltimore, MD.

Two themes, one talk: Distributing quantitative faculty expertise to classrooms that need it in real-time & measuring professional contributions to undergraduate education

02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Jeremy M Wojdak, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins | doi:10.25334/Q4G093

Presentation given at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research 2014, Claremont, CA. Discussing quantitative biology education.

QUBES: a community focused on supporting teaching and learning in quantitative biology

02 Jan 2018 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4H09D

This letter provides an overview of the Quantitative Undergraduate Biology Education and Synthesis (QUBES) Project funded through the National Science Foundation.

QUBES: Supporting faculty in the teaching of mathematical biology

22 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Carrie Diaz Eaton, Sam S Donovan, Tom Gower, Kristin Jenkins, Drew LaMar, DorothyBelle Poli, Bob Sheehy, Jeremy M Wojdak | doi:10.25334/Q4HX09

Abstract for a presentation that was part of a minisymposium at SMB 2015.

Manual for Using BIRDD

21 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Frank Price | doi:10.25334/Q4JW9P

This document contains all of the database notes and How-To files from within BIRDD.

Quantitative biology: how educators that "buy-in" demonstrate greater productivity in teaching scholarship

21 Dec 2017 | Contributor(s): Sam S Donovan, Alison N Hale, Leah Balsan, Connor McLaughlin | doi:10.25334/Q4TD4F

Poster presented at the University of Pittsburgh undergraduate research symposium on the impact of buy-in on productivity in faculty mentoring networks.