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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).
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    NCBI Overview
    An overview of some of the databases within NCBI and how to get FASTA sequences.
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    UniProt
    Brief description of UniProt and its databases and features
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    GSEAtheory
    Brief introduction to how gene set enrichment analysis works.
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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.
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    What is bioinformatics?
    Short description of what bioinformatics is, it's potential applications, and what it is not.
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    How to create "funny symbols" (aka math / statistical notation) in Microsoft Word / Office
    YouTube video on using statistical notation in Microsoft Word.
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    Fostering and sustaining interdisciplinary faculty communities around undergraduate teaching: Insights from the QUBES project
    Presentation part of a minisymposium at the SIAM Applied Mathematics Education (ED18) conference, "Communities of Practice for Math Modeling Education"
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    Investigating the footprint of climate change on phenology and ecological interactions in north-central North America
    The module was used in lab following lecture material on pairwise interactions in ecology (emphasizing consumption, competition, mutualism), and parallel to community ecology (emphasizing food web...
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    Global Temperature Change in the 21st Century
    This module was used as an introduction to the science of climate change, with the goal of detecting trends in temperature change providing motivation for later course material on climate...
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    A Pipeline in Paradise
    I incorporated fracking into the case study instead of just focusing on building a pipeline, which allowed us to discuss fracking with this case study.
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    Phylogenetic analysis using collections material: interpreting trait evolution by comparison of morphological and molecular genetic hypotheses
    Exercise spans two weeks, includes homework, and involves some groups of animals as well as plants. Emphasizes re-interpretation of morphological trait evolution following molecular genetic...
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    Food Chain Dynamics In A Simple Ecosystem
    In this lab, students will work with a simple algae/brine shrimp environment to learn about food chains and population dynamics.
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    A Structured Inquiry Approach to Cotyledon Phenotyping
    In this lab, students will work with messy data to try to answer the question “How do plants inherit cotyledon color?”
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    Terrestrial Trophic Cascades & Population Structure
    In this activity, students will use data from natural parks to examine trophic cascades.
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    Morphological and Molecular Analysis of Plant Phylogeny and Diversity
    In this lab, students perform phylogenetic analyses on morphological and molecular data, and compare.
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    Transpiration
    In this lab, students will examine differences between C3 and C4 plants in their transpiration rates.
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    Seed Dispersal in Tropical Forests
    In this activity, students use data from published studies to understand patterns of seed dispersal and apply these ideas to the design of a conservation area.
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    Globally endangered sea turtles of the Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge: A Focus on Scientific Analysis
    Based on the sea turtle case, students will (1) work on a worksheet by analyzing existing survey data, (2) conduct a literature review of two relevant research, and (3) draft a proposal for a...
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    Data Nugget- City Parks and Texas A&M University-Kingsville Camera Trap Assignment
    The Data Nugget- City Parks module was used in a sophomore-junior level undergraduate wildlife management techniques course (with lab) in Fall 2017. Modifications were made to the original Data...
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