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    Single Cell Insights Into Cancer Transcriptomes: A Five-Part Single-Cell RNAseq Case Study Lesson
    There is a growing need for integration of “Big Data” into undergraduate biology curricula. Transcriptomics is one venue to examine biology from an informatics perspective. RNA sequencing has...

    Keywords: bioinformaticscancertranscriptomicshigh-throughputData wranglingSingle cell RNA sequencingq

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    Bad Cell Reception? Using a cell part activity to help students appreciate cell biology, with an improved data plan and no loss in coverage
    With a veritable myriad of cell parts to cover, it is easy for educators to become locked into marathon presentations that become taxing for both the instructor and the students. While we hope and...

    Keywords: primary literatureprokaryotesCell partsEukaryotesOrganelle functionOrganelles

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    Understanding the Quantitative and Computational Skills of Incoming Biology Students
    Presentation given as part of a Minisymposium at BEER 2015.

    Keywords: assessmentBioSQuaRE

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    Assessing the water quality at Pescadero Creek, CA: does water turbidity and the creek’s composition affect the water quality?
    Right now in the world, there are many factors affecting the world’s environment. Environments, ecosystems, and weather throughout the world are changing due to the anthropocene. Humans are...

    Keywords: water quality

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    Genome Solver - A bioinformatics pipeline for community science
    The Genome Solver was an NSF-funded project developed as a way to train undergraduate life science faculty in basic web-based tools for bioinformatics. As part of the project we developed a one-day...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbacteriophagebacteriaHorizontal Gene transferGenome Analysis

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    Perspectives and practices in sharing data-centric adaptations in the biology classroom: How, why, when, and where are instructors sharing these high-impact pedagogies?
    Poster presented at the 2019 meeting of the National Association of Biology Teachers on barriers to fully utilizing the complete Open Education Resources lifecycle

    Keywords: data-centric teachingoer life cycle

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    Diversifying and Humanizing Scientist Role Models Through Interviews and Constructing Slide Decks on Researchers’ Research and Life Experiences
    To maintain recruitment and retention, biology teachers face the challenge of finding relatable role models for their students. Our ever-increasing scientific knowledge has been facilitated by...

    Keywords: researchdiversityinclusionScientific ProcessRepresentationScientistRole Models

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    ImmunoReach: Incorporating Immunology into the Curriculum to Promote Interdisciplinary Science Education (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    This is an interdisciplinary faculty community of practice, that connects immunology educators with faculty in other biology disciplines, with an intention to increase access to concept-focused...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    A New Hub for QUBES based on the HUBzero Platform
    Presentation on QUBES and Hubzero given at the Seventh International Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research 2014, Claremont, CA

    Keywords: QUBESHubZeroCMS

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    Mapping New Discoveries: iNaturalist and Biodiversity Data
    Meet Lauren Esposito, the Curator of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences. Learn how they use community science to inform new species discovery.

    Keywords: endangered species#iNaturalistBiodiversity data usage

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    Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps
    Organized Oral Session at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting, August 8th, 2017 Portland Oregon.

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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    Human Activity and Soil Hostility
    The composition of soil can be broken down to a mixture of both abiotic and biotic matter. This composition can include animal waste, minerals, water, and even air. The complex nature of soil...

    Keywords: soil science

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    Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Ecology: Introducing the Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network (EDSIN)
    The Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network (EDSIN) was launched in the spring of 2019 following an NSF INCLUDES conference. This poster, summarizing the event, was presented at the 2019...

    Keywords: data scienceEquitydiversityinclusionNational Ecological Observatory NetworkEDSIN#edsin2019

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    Speed Data Science
    Data visualization is a foundational data science skill. One way to help students begin to learn about data visualization is to tap in to their innate creative instincts. This activity can be used...

    Keywords: data visualizationdata science educationlife sciences

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    National Ecological Observatory Network: A Data Source For Your Classroom
    Poster on NEON resources for use in research and education presented at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop.

    Keywords: faculty mentoring networksNEONNational Ecological Observatory Network

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    ENCOUR - Ethics Network for Course-based Opportunities in Undergraduate Research: Phase II (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The Ethics Network for Course-based Opportunities in Undergraduate Research (ENCOUR) seeks to explore effective ways to integrate responsible & ethical conduct of research (RECR) education into...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Example Poster
    This is just an example.
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    The struggle is valid: Increasing student science identity and quantitative skills
    This poster outlines the approach to our research on science identity and quantitative skills. Our approach includes an established educational researcher to assure that our design, approach,...

    Keywords: data visualizationquantitative skillsSelf-Efficacyinclusive classroomsdiversity equity and inclusionscience identityBIOME 2022survey instruments

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    Starting Conversations About Discrimination Against Women in STEM
    Many scientists know about — and experience — discrimination against women. In this professional development lesson, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and other career...

    Keywords: identityracismGender discriminationIntersectionalityMicroagressionsSexismSexual assaultSexual harassmentTrolling

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    Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE): Building standards and resources for using collections data in the classroom
    Abstract for poster on using collections data presented at the 2019 BioQUEST & QUBES Summer Workshop

    Keywords: data sciencenatural history collections2019 QUBES/BioQUEST Summer WorkshopBLUE

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