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    REMNet: A Student’s Guide to Experimental Design 5.3.19
    Video on experimental design for students from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: Videoexperimental designMicrobiology Educationresearch in the classroomREMNeturban microbiomemicrobiology research

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    Avida-ED Experimental Evolution Project
    Outline to a research project based on Avida-ED's digital organisms
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    Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds
    Teaching Notes on the Exaggerated Traits and Breeding Success in Widowbirds

    Keywords: Evolutionexperimental designsexual dimorphismsexual selectionNatural SelectionWidowbirdsbirdintrasexual selectionintersexual selectionhandicap hypothesis

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    Statistics for Biologists
    There is no disputing the importance of statistical analysis in biological research, but too often it is considered only after an experiment is completed, when it may be too late.

    Keywords: statisticsdata analysisexperimental design

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    Exploring Miracle Fruit: An Undergraduate Laboratory Exercise on Experimental Design
    In recent years, undergraduate biology and biochemistry curricula have seen an increase in the use of course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs). CUREs maximize potential student gains...

    Keywords: sensory systemspHProtein shapeTaste

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    Modeling the Research Process: Authentic human physiology research in a large non-majors course
    Laboratory experiences in large-enrollment introductory science courses often utilize “cookie-cutter style” laboratory experiences due to the relative simplicity of setting up the lab...

    Keywords: data analysishypothesis testingexperimental designphysiology

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    2012-Transtrum-Qiu-Optimal experiment selection for parameter estimation in biological differential equation models
    We explore the question to what extent parameters can be efficiently estimated by appropriate experimental selection.

    Keywords: experimental designsystems biologyAssociation & Data Fittingreaction ratesdecay rates

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgae

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will construct simple experiments with algae and brine shrimp to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chainalgaebrine shrimp

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics. It was implemented with limited alteration for an Introductory...

    Keywords: ecologyecosystemsfood chain

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    REMNet Tutorial, R Part 5: Normalizing Microbiome Data in R 5.2.19
    Video on normalizing microbiome data from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: geneticsstatisticsdata analysisgraphingRStudioVideoexperimental designR programming languagemicrobiomesstudent researchinterdisciplinary educationlimnologyeco-informaticsresearch in the classroomtidyverseWorking with datasetsREMNet

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    GEA Introductory lesson on RNA-Seq
    This RNA-Seq lesson uses the CyVerse VICE Platform and Jupyter notebooks to examine the expression of the leptin gene in samples from a mouse experimental design evaluating diet (high-fat vs....

    Keywords: data sciencebioinformaticsGenome BrowserRNAseqhigh throughput sequencingmRNAAlignmentNCBI Sequence Read Archive

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    9-020-HeatDiffusion-ModelingScenario
    This project guides students through experimental, analytical, and numerical techniques for understanding the heat (diffusion) equation with nonhomogeneous boundary conditions. In particular,...

    Keywords: laboratoryDiffusionheat

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    Quantifying Uncertainty and Distinguishing Data Sets in Introductory Physics
    Physics labs are moving increasingly to open-ended experiments where students develop experimental physics skills, rather than verify textbook physics concepts. This sequence of activities sets the...

    Keywords: statisticsMeasurementlaboratoryuncertaintypendulumexperimental skills

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    2006-Matt_MacWilliams-Developing ODEs to Describe the Motion of a Paper Helicopter
    This paper attempts to create a model that describes the motion of a paper helicopter using engineering, physical and statistical knowledge.

    Keywords: experimental designhelicopter

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    Tag You're It: A Lesson Investigating Study Design and Survival Analysis on an American Shad Tagging Study
    In this lesson, students will learn about the various mark-recapture and tagging methods that are used in various scientific disciplines and the information they can gather. Key elements of...

    Keywords: survival analysisAmerican ShadCox Proportional Hazards ModelStudy Design

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    Citations
    Published Avida-Ed article

    Keywords: EvolutioncurriculumSelectionDigital Organisms

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    3-069-HeatInBar-ModelingScenario
    The temperature distribution along a uniform slender bar due to conduction and convection is investigated through experimental, analytical, and numerical approaches.

    Keywords: heat transferexperimentconductionconvectionboundary conditionsfinite volume method

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    2009-James_May-Nonlinear vibration control of long flexible structures
    An automated, non-linear control scheme was developed to transfer energy from the fundamental vibration mode, where most vibration energy of the structures of interest resides, to higher order...

    Keywords: vibrationdampingtuned mass damperviscousnodalmodel dampingflexible structureenergy transfer

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