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    Modification to What do Trees Know about the Rain
    Use of the tree ring data vs. precipitation to discuss how trees respond to drought

    Keywords: discussionslecture slidesgraphsgroup-ldcfmn

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    GMC: Genes, Mutations and Cancer - Group Concept Map Development
    It has been shown that active learning strategies used in the classroom can increase student learning and retention of information. We generated an active learning exercise that can be used in the...

    Keywords: mutationcancerCell Division

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    Application of a Bacterial Experimental Evolution System to Visualize and Teach Evolution in Action: A Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
    Concepts of evolution are typically taught through examples of extremely long timescales, which do not always resonate broadly. Here, we describe a course-based undergraduate research experience...

    Keywords: EvolutionmutationcompetitionNatural Selectionregulationstructure and functionreproductive fitnessgenotype to phenotypehomologs

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    Student-Driven Design-and-Improve Modules to Explore the Effect of Plant Bioactive Compounds in Three Model Organisms
    Engaging and supporting introductory level students in authentic research experiences during required coursework is challenging. Plant bioactive compounds attract students' natural curiosity as...

    Keywords: statisticsLabCUREInquiryresearch skillscaterpillardaphniadrugsscience process

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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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    Calling Bullshit DCS 105 Bates College RByte Worksheets
    These are handout worksheets for your in-class RByte activities.

    Keywords: RActivityGoogle CoLabCalling BullshitRByteData PracticeCoding SkillsSkill development

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    1999-Khorasheh-Ahmadi-Gerayeli-Application of Direct Search Optimization for Pharmacokinetic Parameter Estimation
    For simple pharmacokinetic compartmental models, analytical solution to the governing differential equations provide a mean to evaluate the associated rate constants. Such methods, however, can not...

    Keywords: sum of square errorsleast squarespharmacokineticslineteicscompartmental modelsdirect search

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    6-003-SchoolFluEpidemic-ModelingScenario
    We offer a model of the spread of flu in a school dormitory and are asked to find when the flu levels reach their peak and explain long term behavior of the spread of the flu.

    Keywords: infectionepidemicSIR modelflupeakschool children

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    1-001c-PopulationDecayThenSome-ModelingScenario
    You will be modeling the following situation: 100 people are in a hotel. Each day, each person has a random chance of 50% of leaving the hotel. No new people enter the hotel.

    Keywords: simulationoccupancypopulationhotel

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    1-084-GoingViral-ModelingScenario
    Students employ randomization in order to create a simulation of the spread of a viral disease in a population (the classroom). Students then use qualitative analysis of the expected behavior of...

    Keywords: simulationlogisticrandomfittingpartial fractions

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    Multiple choice quiz questions for biostatistics
    A set of 157 multiple choice quiz questions for biostatistics courses, organized and searchable by 18 concepts/skills.

    Keywords: quizbiostatistics - general

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    Analyzing Data on Behavioral and Immunological Effects of Inflammation in Mice
    In this activity, students will learn about behavioral and immunological responses to a bacterial infection. The activity emphasized the host’s responses rather than bacterial manipulation of the...

    Keywords: Vision and Changedata analysisImmunologybehaviorphysiologyinflammationinterdisciplinary educationAntigenmouseImmunoReachSicknessleukocyteneutrophilLipopolysaccharideacute phase response

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    2008-Huangi-Lu-Modeling long-term longitudinal HIV dynamics with applications to an AIDS clinical study 
    To better understand the factors responsible for the virological failure, this paper develops the mechanism-based nonlinear differential equation models for characterizing long-term viral dynamics...

    Keywords: longitudinal dataAIDSantiretroviral drug therapyBayesian nonlinear mixed-effectstime-varying drug efficacyHIV dynamics

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    1975-David_Burghes-Population dynamics An introduction to differential equations
    In this paper a number of population models, which lead to differential equations, are derived. First-order variables separable equations are formulated from the Malthusian population model and its...

    Keywords: fishpredator-preylogisticpopulationdelaylag

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    SCIENCE/Fiction: Modular Template for Class Design
    We present a modular scaffold for designing an introductory seminar using speculative fiction and science papers to welcome university undergraduates to the biology major. A list of twelve possible...

    Keywords: geneticscell biologyneurosciencesystems biologyScience Fiction

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    Assessing in vivo Antimicrobial Activity Through the Analysis of Galleria mellonella Kaplan-Meier Plots
    Antimicrobials and their use in the treatment of bacterial infections are a fundamental lesson in all microbiology courses. Typically, cultivation-based methods are used to teach students about...

    Keywords: Antimicrobial TestingAntimicrobialsInvertebrate animal models

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    The Great Petunia Carnage of 2017: A Clicker Case Study Using Petunias to Describe the Effect of Genetic Modification on the Biochemistry of Flower Color and Phenotype in Plants
    In this single class period case study, students examine the difference between genotype and phenotype by studying the mechanisms by which commercially available petunias have been bred to have...

    Keywords: case studyGenetic ModificationsBiochemistry of Flower ColorGMO regulationsGenotype-Phenotype Connections

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    Integrating Community Ecology Into the Study of Parasites: Exploring the Effect of Host Behavior on Parasite Transmission Rates
    Organismal life cycles are often presented as a set of facts to memorize in undergraduate biology courses. This approach is cognitively demanding for students and fails to convey how central life...

    Keywords: statisticsspecies interactionsQuantitative reasoninggraphsCommunity EcologyParasitologyfood webs

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    Agents of change: Determining effects of pollution on marine environments through data interpretation
    In this lesson, students discuss the effects of disturbance in marine environments with a focus on pollution. They also evaluate the anthropogenic causes and consequences of pollution on a variety...

    Keywords: fishgraph interpretationfmnmarine ecosystemsmarine ecologymicroplastic pollutionEcological Disturbanceintermediate disturbance hypothesisstudent STEM identitypollutionBioGraphIrepresentation in STEMoil spill

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    Building Biodiversity Datasets for Invasive Species
    A module guiding students through the process of mapping biodiversity data and building a biodiversity dataset to study the spread and impacts of the invasive aquatic plant species, European...

    Keywords: Management Of Datanatural historyField researchconservation ecologyAquatic invasive speciesbiodiversity informatics

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