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    The Science and Ethics of Gene Drives: An Active Learning Lesson in Genetics
    Coursework connecting biology to socially relevant issues and ethical questions can help students think about biology in interdisciplinary terms. Gene drives represent one topic involving both...

    Keywords: bioethicsCRISPR/Cas9Genetic modificationGene drives

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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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    A Journal Club Project to Promote Interpreting and Presenting Information From the Primary Scientific Literature
    Many undergraduate students receive little guidance on how to critically read, interpret data within, or present information from the primary scientific literature before they begin senior...

    Keywords: primary literaturejournal clubScience CommunicationfeedbackPeer reviewgroup workOral presentationProcess skillsPeer evaluationDevelopmental neurobiology

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    Glycolysis Can Be Fun: Rediscovering Glycolysis as a Problem-Solving Introduction to Metabolism
    A thorough understanding of glycolysis forms a foundation for students to analyze subsequent topics in metabolism, a core competency recognized by multiple national societies for biology and...

    Keywords: Problem based learningPOGILenzymesGlycolysisMetabolismFermentationchemical reactionsCard sorting activityCofactors

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    Malaise Trap Project: Involving Undergraduate Students in Network Science
    A multi-week project for upper division undergraduate students to participate in network-level science, while simultaneously learning classic entomology skills of specimen collection and...

    Keywords: entomologynetwork science4DEE Framework

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    BioGrapher
    BioGrapher is an Excel front-end for the AT&T GraphViz graphical visualization and layout package (http://www.graphviz.org/).

    Keywords: network theorygraph theoryphylogenetic trees

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    Defining Life: Exploring Creativity, Scientific Discovery, and Biology Core Concepts in a Disciplinary First-Year Seminar
    This unit, Defining Life, engages students in thinking like scientists, applying creativity to science, and learning biology core concepts as they explore the defining characteristics of life. This...

    Keywords: Evolutionbiologycellprocess of science

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    Investigating the ecological value of migratory fishes on stream ecosystems in southern Appalachia
    Using the Ecological Society of America’s Four-Dimensional Ecology Education (4DEE) framework, students apply ecological concepts such as energy flow, nutrient cycling, migration, and climate...

    Keywords: Stream ecologynutrient cycling4DEE Frameworkfish migration

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    BioGraphI FMN Leader Guide (Template version) - Google Docs
    This document contains the leader guide for the Biologist and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) Project’s semester-long Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN). FMN leaders use it to organize the FMN, and...

    Keywords: professional developmentCurriculum developmenttemplateInclusive teachingleadershipDiscussionBioGraphIBioGraphI FMNfacilitation

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    Template BioGraphI FMN Flash Talks - Google Slides
    This document contains a template for creating the final show-and-tell slide deck for the Biologist and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) Network’s semester-long Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN)....

    Keywords: professional developmentPresentationtemplateBioGraphIBioGraphI FMNslide deck

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    Integrating Artificial Intelligence with the Project Leadership App
    Project Leadership is a web-based application which empowers the STEM participants to take up leadership roles to develop diverse leadership skills. Implementing Project Leadership (PL) provides...

    Keywords: Artificial Intelligenceleadershipteam workproject leadership

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    Introduction to the Fculty Resource Guide: Integrating Social Justice, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Issues in STEMM courses
    We live in challenging times. Higher education faces many challenges including changes in enrollment pattern, fiscal constraints and lack of public acceptance of the value of the degree relative to...

    Keywords: social justiceDEI statementsTeaching Controversial Issues

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    Cancer Genetics and an Interview with a Deaf Biomedical Researcher
    In this lesson, learners will learn about cancer genetics and understand and interpret graphs showing quantitative trait locus (QTL) data, survivor curve data, and other genetics data. Then,...

    Keywords: graph interpretationfmnDeaf EducationBioGraphIrepresentation in STEMBioGraphI graph InterpretationDeaf representation in STEM

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    BIOME 2024 Workshop: “But we don’t teach ecology!”
    OCELOTS modules are open-access case studies in tropical ecology that promote active learning, quantitative skills, and systems thinking. This workshop is the prelude to a Fall FMN for adapting...

    Keywords: International researchtropical biologyBIOME 2024

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    Let me in: Interpreting graphs of parasite infection in red blood cells
    The goal of this activity is to familiarize students with reading graphs, to think about how cells are different from one another and how parasites can take advantage of cell surface markers to...

    Keywords: graph interpretationfmnCellsStem cellsmalariaBioGraphIrepresentation in STEMcell sortinginfection efficiencycell surface proteinscell recongitionred blood cells

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    A Structured Inquiry-Based Module for the Undergraduate Cell Biology Laboratory That Teaches Fundamental Concepts of Cell Differentiation
    Pedagogical research in science education has shown that students effectively learn science by doing science. As a result, there is increased interest in bringing research-like experiences into the...

    Keywords: fluorescence microscopygene expressionpolymerase chain reactionCell Structurecell culturewestern blottingdifferentiationreverse transcription

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    Exploring Microbial Diversity: An Interactive In-Class Assignment for Biology and Microbiology Courses
    This interactive assignment engages students in a hands-on exploration of microbial diversity and the importance of microbes in ecosystems. Designed for General Biology II and Introduction to...

    Keywords: Microbiology EducationMicrobial DiversitymicrobiologyEcological Society of Americaecology educationresearch-based classroom instruction4DEE Framework

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    Implementing an online module about impacts of pollution from gold mining in an undergraduate ecology course in the Pacific Northwest, USA
    Students learn about biomagnification of toxins, build skills in graphical interpretation, and apply field methods to tackle complex issues about small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon....

    Keywords: food websmercury biogeochemistryBioaccumulationbiomagnificationPeruvian Amazon

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    BioGraphI Guidelines for Interviews - Google Docs
    This document contains step-by-step instructions used by curriculum developers to plan, conduct, and publish interviews with scientists for the Biologist and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI)...

    Keywords: Curriculum developmentInclusive teachinginterviewRole ModelsBioGraphIBioGraphI FMNcounterstereotypical scientist

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    BioGraphI FMN Notes Template (w/ Agenda) - Google Docs
    This document contains a template for taking notes during meetings of the Biologist and Graph Interpretation (BioGraphI) Network’s semester-long Faculty Mentoring Network (FMN). These notes are...

    Keywords: professional developmentagendatemplateBioGraphIBioGraphI FMN

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