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    The (STEM)2 Network - Sustainable, Transformative Engagement across a Multi-Institution and Multidisciplinary STEM Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Enhance undergraduate STEM education by promoting new and strengthening existing collaborations among biology, chemistry, and math faculty at 2- and 4-year institutions; and support faculty in...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Fatty Acid Induction of Lipid Droplets in Cancer Cells
    There is a growing need for the development and communication of cell culture-based laboratory activities specifically designed for undergraduate students. This multi-week laboratory activity...

    Keywords: Course based undergraduate researchCell ImagingLive Cell Staining

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    AK UNiTE - Alaska Undergraduate Research Experience: Partnering for Alaska Students by Growing Recruitment and Retention through Undergraduate Research (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    AK UNiTE is a network that supports research mentors in culturally sensitive mentoring practices, offers place-based research opportunities throughout Alaska to empower Alaskan students to become...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    SOAR - San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research to enhance STEM education and assess human impacts on avian biodiversity (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The San Francisco Bay Research Coordination Network for Student Opportunities in Avian Research (SOAR) brings together faculty, students, and volunteers to implement an experiential learning and...

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    MCC - A National Malate Dehydrogenase Protein-Centric Molecular Life Sciences Couse-based Undergraduate Research Network (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The MCC is an inclusive national community consisting of faculty, from community colleges, MSI, PUI and Research Intensive institutions teaching and developing Course based Undergraduate Research...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    iEMBER - Novel Networking Fostering Interdisciplinary Communities and New Research Collaborations (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The vision of the inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research (iEMBER) Network is to improve biology education for learners that are often traditionally excluded from the...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    VISABLI - an RCN-UBE for Visualizations, Interactive Simulations, and Animations for Biology Learning & Instruction (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Our network improves instructional multimedia design for biology education by fostering communication and collaboration among members of three communities: undergraduate biology instructors,...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    BCEENET- Broadening undergraduate participation in ecology and evolution research through CUREs using digitized natural history collections data (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    Biological Collections in Ecology and Evolution Network (BCEENET) brings together natural history collections (NHC) professionals, undergraduate educators, data experts, and researchers to support...

    Keywords: Evolutionecologybiologyundergraduate researchdata managementnatural history collectionscourse-based research experiences (CUREs)digitized natural history collectionsBCEENETcourse-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs)RCN-UBE Introduction

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    CBEC - Cell Biology Education Consortium (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    The CBEC helps faculty at PUIs move cancer cell culture research into the classroom. The mechanism that provides faculty with the resources they need to do this are modular protocols called Cell...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    IBP - Preparing to Prepare the 21st Century Biology Student: Using Scientific Societies as Change Agents for the Introductory Biology Experience (RCN-UBE Introduction)
    This was the first or second RCN-UBE award made. The Introductory Biology Project (IBP) collaborated with the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) to link introductory biology...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Simulating Cortical Rotation, Axis Induction, and Experimental Embryology in Amphibian Embryos Using Clay Models
    The study of development requires learners to understand spatially complex concepts like embryo anatomy. Embryo anatomy is dynamic over time, and it is often manipulated by researchers in...

    Keywords: developmentXenopusfertilizationEmbryologyinductionSymmetry breakingOrganizerCortical rotationPatterning

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    The Developmental Origins of Mythology: A Pandemic-Inspired Innovative Developmental Biology Laboratory Exercise
    From an experiential, hands-on perspective, the Developmental Biology Laboratory is easily amenable to a wide range of undergraduate-friendly experiments. Thus, pivoting to a virtual laboratory...

    Keywords: gastrulationaxis formationlimb developmentchimeramidline

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    Using Collaborative Projects to Promote Active Learning of Microbial Skin Diseases and Their Impact on Everyday Lives
    One of the most daunting aspects of introductory clinical microbiology is learning details about a vast number of different microbial diseases that can infect humans. Each of these diseases has...

    Keywords: infectious diseasecollaborationpathogenesisTreatment of diseasesReal-life Microbiology

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    Defining and Understanding Pathogenic Disease: An Engaging Activity that Connects Students' Lived Experiences with their Academic Studies
    Contagious diseases are unavoidable realities of life. Thus, understanding pathogens and their respective diseases is important in many biological subfields including evolution, ecology, health...

    Keywords: infectious diseasePathogenspathogenic disease

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    2020-Cline-EtAl-A Vision for Projects Across the Mathematics Curriculum
    We describe a model that incorporates projects at all stages across the undergraduate mathematics curriculum. Finally, we provide samples of projects that we have used in selected courses.

    Keywords: projectstechnical writinginterdisciplinary skills

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    2017-Bonin-EtAl-Mathematical modeling based on ordinary differential equations - promising approach to vaccinology
    As a proof of concept, we developed a model of the immune response to vaccination against the yellow fever. Our simulations have shown consistent results when compared with experimental data...

    Keywords: immune systemyellow fevercomputational immunologycomputational vaccinology

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    2016-Manheim-EtAl-Improving Decision Support for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control
    This report describes decision-support tools, including models and nonmodeling approaches, that are relevant to infectious disease prevention, detection, and response and aligns these tools with...

    Keywords: infectious diseaseecosystemepidemicmodel policy

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    2016-Bonin-EtAl-Mathematical modeling based on ordinary differential equations-vaccinology
    We developed a model of the immune response to vaccination against the yellow fever. Our simulations have shown consistent results when compared with experimental data available in the literature.

    Keywords: Immunologyimmune systemAntigenvaccinologyyellow fever

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    2016-Barbarossa-Kuttler-Mathematical Modeling of Bacteria Communication in Continuous Cultures
    This paper presents a simple system of delay differential equations (DDEs) for quorum sensing of Pseudomonas putida with one positive feedback plus one (delayed) negative feedback mechanism.

    Keywords: gene regulatory networkschemostatbifurcationNumerical Simulationquorum sensing

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    2017-Zhang-Wang-Study on public opinion propagation in self media age based on time delay differential model
    We establish the Logistic equation, introduce the operator time delay differential equation, and finally establish the improved delay differential equation, which can describe the propagation trend...

    Keywords: propagationpubic opinionNetwork public opinionpropagation lawself-mediaXiongan New Area

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