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    The Human Microbiome Biodiversity in Health and Disease
    The students will analyze the human gut and vaginal microbiomes in healthy and diseased states using diversity of bacteria as determined by 16SrRNA sequence.
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    Cancer Discovery Activities
    These two hands-on activities are based on a Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2013 Holiday Lectures on Science video (http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cancer-genetic-disease-video-highlights)...

    Keywords: geneticsResources @ HHMI - BioInteractiveorganismal biologyneurosciencegenomicscancergenetic basis of diseasebiology of cellsHigh School

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    Disease Spread Simulation with M&M's and Information on the wider SIMIODE community
    This is a Student Version of a Modeling Scenario from the community, SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations at www.simiode.org

    Keywords: resourcesdifferential equationsmodelingsimulationmoduledataepidemicsdiseasecommunityapplied mathematicsResources @ SIMIODEretinal surgeryinsect colonyLSDm&mparameter estimationin-class activityproject

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    Mock Drug Activity Enhances Student Learning About the Challenges of HIV/AIDS Therapy
    While traditional didactic coursework is important for learning about the scientific aspects of HIV/AIDS, it is difficult to convey social aspects of the epidemic. Due to effective drug therapies,...

    Keywords: drug resistanceRetrovirusViral replication

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    6-007-FunctionsAndDerivativesInSIRModels-ModelingScenario
    Given a system of differential equations, how do the solution graphs compare with the graphs of the differential equations? Students tackle this question using SIR models for well-known infectious...

    Keywords: epidemiologyspecies interactionsderivativesvisualizationinfectionSIR modelsLaw of Mass Action

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    2008-Ribbing-EtAl-Mathematical models of diabetes progression
    Writing a good model for diabetes progression is difficult because the long time span of the disease makes experimental verification of modeling hypotheses extremely awkward. underlying the

    Keywords: physiologyclinical trialsdiabetesdiabetes progression

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    Choose Your Own Adventure: Control a Wildlife Disease Epidemic
    This educational game allows teams of students to try to control a simulated epidemic in United States snake populations using their epidemiological and ecological knowledge. It combines a "choose...

    Keywords: educational game

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    "Reading groups" in an undergraduate biology course: A peer-based model to help students develop skills to evaluate primary literature
    Undergraduates who learn to evaluate primary literature demonstrate an enhanced ability to understand the process of science, weigh scientific evidence, and think critically (e.g. 6,8). Studies...

    Keywords: primary literaturecritical thinkingSelf-EfficacyDiscussionPeer-based Learning

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    COVID-19 Spread NetLogo ABM
    This project aimed to utilize agent-based modeling in NetLogo to create a simulation of COVID-19 spread in a traditional college classroom. The model allows for an evaluation of different...

    Keywords: classroomNetLogoagent-based modelingdisease prevention

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    Additional Figures of the Day - Parasitology
    These additional figures were used in a Parasitology course (juniors and seniors) at Radford University.

    Keywords: graphsmath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAPInterpreting Graphs

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    Investigating the Ecology of West Nile Virus in the United States
    TIEE Module- How do biotic and abiotic environmental factors explain the historic, present, and future prevalence and range of West Nile Virus (WNV) in the US?
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    1992-Emelie_Kenney-Differential equations and the AIDS epidemic
    This paper describes a lecture for Calculus II students in which the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was used to motivate study of first-order linear differential equations and the derivative...

    Keywords: epidemicCDCAIDSDisease Control

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    6-004-VillageEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    Students are offered data from a plague epidemic that occurred in the middle of the seventeenth century in Eyam, a small English village. With only two assumptions offered to students they...

    Keywords: SIR modelsepidemicsusceptibleinfectiveremovedEyamEnglish village

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    6-015-CombatingEbolaEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    This project offers students a chance to make a policy recommendation based on analysis of a nonlinear system of differential equations (disease model). The scenario is taken from the fall of 2014...

    Keywords: diseaseEbolaAnalysisPolicydecision

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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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    Using Open-Source Bioinformatics and Visualization Tools to Explore the Structure and Function of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein
    The relationship between protein structure and function is a foundational concept in undergraduate biochemistry. We find this theme is best presented with assignments that encourage exploration and...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsmolecular modelingCOVID19protein structure and functionUCSF ChimeraSARS-CoV-2 spike proteinACE2 receptor

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    2020-Chen_Et_Al-MathModel_Simulation_Phase-Based_Transmissability_Corona_Virus
    In this study, we developed a Bats-Hosts-Reservoir-People transmission network model for simulating the potential transmission from the infection source (probably be bats) to the human infection.

    Keywords: basic reproduction numbercoronavirusnext generation matrixtransmissibilitynovel coronavirus

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    Antibiotic Resistance Genes Detection in Environmental Samples
    Our aim is to provide an authentic research experience for undergraduate students in a variety of biology courses through collaboration between a four-year university and a community college. This...

    Keywords: geneticsenvironmentmicrobiologyUndergraduateantibiotic-resistancePCRgel electrophoresisauthentic inquiry

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    Exploring the City of Biofilms: An Engaging Analogy-Based Activity for Students to Learn Biofilms
    Multicellular biofilms constructed by microbes are key aspects of microbiology with significant implications in various fields, including medicine, environmental science, and biotechnology. While...

    Keywords: bacteriaBiofilmsquorum sensing

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    Understanding Host-Pathogen Interactions With the Use of Galleria mellonella
    The Galleria mellonella; the larvae of the Greater Wax Moth, is a safe and effective means to study host-pathogen interactions in the undergraduate setting. The use of animal models in the teaching...

    Keywords: innate immunitybacterial pathogenesisHost-pathogen interactionsGalleria mellonellaVirulence

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