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    Infectious Chocolate Joy with a Side of Poissonian Statistics: An activity connecting life science students with subtle physics concepts
    Lesson on what it means for biological processes to be Poissonian, published in CourseSource

    Keywords: quantitative biologybioinformaticsmicrobiologyphysicsNIBLSEHIVCourseSourcemultiplicity of infectionPoisson Distribution

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    Integration of Bioinformatics into Life Science Curricula: Community Development, Dissemination, and Assessment of a NIBLSE Learning Resource
    Big data and computational tools have transformed the way we address biological questions. To prepare undergraduates for tomorrow’s challenges, life science curricula should integrate the...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSELife Science

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    Squirreling from Afar: Adapting Squirrel-Net Modules for Remote Teaching and Learning
    The shift from face-to-face instruction to remote teaching and learning has proven to be a challenging endeavor for many reasons, including lack of time, resources, and inspiration. Lab courses,...

    Keywords: online learningbehavioral ecologyCUREsRemote teachingfield ecologySquirrelSquirrel-Net

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    Escape Zoom!: Reviewing Introductory Evolution Content Using an Escape Room Format
    Reviewing and integrating key concepts and learning goals at the end of a biology course can be overwhelming to students and instructors alike. Often end-of-term review sessions in preparation for...

    Keywords: Evolutionartificial selectionSpeciationextinctionsexual selectionphylogenetic treesmechanisms of evolution

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    Serenity now! Keep calm and do science with real data in the classroom
    Presentation on a free web application currently under development on QUBES called Serenity at the 5th Life Discovery Conference

    Keywords: data sciencetool:serenity5th Life Discovery- Doing Science Education conference (LDC)5th Life Discovery Conference

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    Half Life of mRNA
    This module introduces exponential growth and decay in the context of understanding the stability of mRNA. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: exponential equationsGenetic Informationlogarithmic equationshalf-lifemRNA

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    Body Size Constraints in Xylem Feeding Insects: Allometric Relationships
    This module introduces body size constraints of xylem-feeding insects in the context of understanding allometric relationships. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: allometryRatiosexponential equationslogarithmic equationsGenetics and Evolution

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    Population Demography in Swirl
    The students will learn to generate, test, and graphically represent basic hypotheses on data distributions using large datasets.

    Keywords: ecologyPopulation statisticslife history curves

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    CURE-all: Large Scale Implementation of Authentic DNA Barcoding Research into First-Year Biology Curriculum
    Growing calls in science education reform have emphasized wide-scale engagement of first-year undergraduate students in authentic research experiences; however, large course enrollments, inadequate...

    Keywords: phylogeneticsbioinformaticsBiodiversityprocess of sciencetaxonomyPCRDNADNA sequencegel electrophoresis

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    Incubators: Building community networks and developing open educational resources to integrate bioinformatics into life sciences education
    To efficiently and effectively integrate bioinformatics instruction into undergraduate life science curricula, educators would benefit from open access, high-quality learning resources (LRs) for...

    Keywords: bioinformaticsNIBLSEincubatorsLife Science

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    Biodiversity, Big Data, and the Fossil Record
    In this lab, we will be making and testing hypotheses about how the biodiversity of groups of organisms may vary through time.

    Keywords: digital resourcesnatural history museumspaleobiology

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    What is Speciation, How Does It Occur, and Why Is It Important for Conservation?
    Speciation provides a framework for classifying biodiversity on Earth and is a central concept in evolutionary biology. To help undergraduate students learn about speciation, we designed a...

    Keywords: EvolutionconservationGenetic DriftSpeciationNatural SelectionBiological species conceptgene flowMorphological species conceptPhylogenetic species concept

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    An Adaptation of "Plants in the Human-Altered Environment (PHAE)" for 100% Remote Learning at East Stroudsburg University
    PHAE is a project to compare effects of landscape alteration intensities on plant diversity. This adaptation modified and extends the modules to suit fully remote learning (data collected...

    Keywords: erenNEONdiversitybiomass4DEE Frameworkecosystemsocioeconomic effects

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    Digital Laboratory Framework via Canvas for LIFE courses at Colorado State University
    The Life Lab Revisions team has piloted a Canvas-based approach to building scientific competencies in labs.

    Keywords: online learningvirtual lab

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    NIBLSE Collaborative Community Model for developing, disseminating, and assessing bioinformatics learning resources
    The Network for Integrating Bioinformatics into Life Sciences Education (NIBLSE) has cultivated a collaborative community model to facilitate the development, dissemination, and assessment of...

    Keywords: fmnNIBLSE

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    A Lesson on Matter and Energy at the Organismal Scale: Linking Patterns and Processes Across Diverse Taxa
    Pathways and transformations of energy and matter (PTEM) are a conceptually challenging but essential component of biological literacy. Curricular gaps about PTEM nevertheless remain; although...

    Keywords: plantsenergyAnimalsfungimatterorganismal scale

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    2015-The European Bioinformatics Institute-BioModels Database
    BioModels Database is a repository of computational models of biological processes. Models described from literature are manually curated and enriched with cross-references.

    Keywords: computational biologyBioModels Databasebio databaselife science experiments

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    1999-Peter_Deuflhard-Differential Equations in Technology and Medicine
    It deals with a variety of challenging real life problems selected from clinical cancer therapy, communication technology, polymer production, and pharmaceutical drug design.

    Keywords: cancerdesigntumordrugpolymertherapy

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    Demography from "virtual cemeteries"
    This module is a modification of the Lanza module in TIEE Volume 8. Rather than requiring students to visit cemeteries outside of class, this modification has students collect data from online...

    Keywords: ecologyResources @ ESA - TIEEdemographysurvivorshiplife tables

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    5-010-DNADegradation-ModelingScenario
    We ask students to use the system of first order linear differential equations given in a source paper and estimates of the data from laboratory procedures from a plot to estimate the parameters...

    Keywords: DNA\kinetisplasmaratpharmacokinetis

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