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    Using Phyre2
    How to use Phrye2 and 3DLigandSite to computationally predict protein and active site structure and binding partners (substrates/cofactors/coenzymes).

    Keywords: videosbioinformaticsproteinsgenomicsyoutubephyre23DLigandSite

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    Simple Heat Maps with Morpheus
    Learn how to load an Excel file of raw data into Morpheus and change between relative and global scales.

    Keywords: Excelbioinformaticsgenomicsyoutubemorpheusheat maps

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    What do trees know about Rain? Adapted for an online, non-majors botany course
    Minor modifications were made to this Data Nugget in order to use it in a fully online version of the introductory, non-majors botany course, Plants and People.
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    Incubators: A community based model for improving the usability of bioinformatics learning resources
    Poster on Incubators, a NIBLSE and QUBES collaboration presented at Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference - Chicago, IL

    Keywords: NIBLSEincubators

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    Adaptation and Facilitation of Small Group Activities in an Online Introductory Biology Class
    In spring 2020, the sudden mid-semester closure of my campus in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a rapid transition to emergency online learning. Consequently, I adapted the...

    Keywords: Cellular communicationNeuronal functionNeuronal structure

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    Human Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Humans alter the climate by emitting greenhouse gases, by changing planetary albedo, and by altering atmospheric chemistry. Between 1900 and 2000, humans' emissions of carbon into the atmosphere...

    Keywords: demographyhuman populationgreenhouse gas emissions

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    BioQUEST Partner Support Module: Exploring Community
    A four-week module for BioQUEST's Research Coordination Network partners on using BioQUEST's features, resources, and services to build a community that supports their project goals.

    Keywords: Resources @ BioQUESTRCNcommunitybuilding communityOnline community building

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    Graphing and mapping patterns of air quality in Los Angeles, California through an environmental justice lens.
    Air quality is an environmental issue that impacts everyone in Los Angeles. This activity presents current popular press articles about air pollution and environmental justice and maps and graphs...
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    Sustainability Metrics (Project EDDIE)
    In this module, students will use an analytical framework with publicly available data to formulate questions, analyze data, and report metrics of sustainability.
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    Sustainability Metrics (Project EDDIE)
    In this module, students will use an analytical framework with publicly available data to formulate questions, analyze data, and report metrics of sustainability.
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    Bioinformatics: Food Detective – a Practical Guide
    This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces the idea of computers as tools to help understand aspects of biology.
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    Bioinformatics: the Power of Computers in Biology – a Practical Guide
    This Practical Guide in the Bringing Bioinformatics into the Classroom series introduces simple bioinformatics approaches for database searching and sequence analysis.

    Keywords: NIBLSEGOBLET

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    Using Linear Regression to Explore Environmental Factors Affecting Vector-borne Diseases
    In this activity students will use linear regression to analyze real data on vector-borne diseases and explore how environmental factors such as climate change or population density influence the...

    Keywords: ecologygraphingmicrobiologyqbccUnderstanding ratesCreate graphsInterpret graphsinterpret tablesConcepts in Statistics

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    Cell Collective: Learning biology with modeling and simulations
    Cell Collective is an online, research-grade modeling platform adapted to engage students in creating and simulating dynamic models of biological processes.

    Keywords: modelingsimulationSimulationsCell Collective

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    The Effect of Climate Change on Butterfly Phenology
    In this module, students explain the importance of collections in scientific research, manipulate data in a spreadsheet program, create properly plotted and labeled graphs, analyze data to test...

    Keywords: ExcelResources @ ESA - TIEEclimate changefmnphenologynatural history collectionsDIGbutterflyinterspecific interactions

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    Introduction to Data Management, Life History, and Demography
    Learning Goals: • explain importance of data management • identify elements of an organized data sheet • create & manipulate data in a spreadsheet • calculate vital statistics using life...

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshipdata managementlife tables

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    Investigating Determinants of Richness in Ephemeral and Permanent Wetlands Using Linear Models in Shiny
    This resource seeks to provide a quantitative platform by which students can be taught about interactive effects using the TIEE module created by Little (2018). Key to the adaptation is the use of...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebrateslinear regressionhypothesis testingshinywetlands

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    Number Sense
    In this activity, students demonstrate their own innate number sense by playing an online game that asks them to estimate quantities that are flashed on screen for only milliseconds. Research...

    Keywords: number sensemath attitudesResources @ BIOMAAP

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    My Experiences in a Faculty Mentoring Network for Mathematical Modeling
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMfaculty mentoring networksfaculty communitiesResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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    Fostering and Sustaining Interdisciplinary Faculty Communities Around Undergraduate Teaching: Insights from the QUBES Project
    Talk given as a part of the Symposium - Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education at the SIAM 2018 Conference

    Keywords: SIAMQUBESfaculty communitiesResources @ MMHubResources @ SIAMEd 2018

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