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1. Lesson IV - Comparative Genomics

   10 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

   1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

   Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson IV, Comparative Genomics, discusses some of the tools...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/857/?v=2

2. Lesson III - Annotation

   10 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

   1. Georgetown University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Cabrini University

   Genome Solver began as a way to teach undergraduate faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics; no coding or scripting is required. Lesson III introduces Annotation, or assigning meaning to all...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/856/?v=2

3. Optimal Foraging in Swirl

   08 Oct 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Mary Elizabeth McWhirt¹, Emily Weigel¹

   Georgia Institute of Technology

   This lesson centers around the marginal value theorem (MVT, Charnov 1976), which describes how animals should forage in patches. It serves as a pre-lab to teach MVT basics, vectors, ANOVA, and...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1213/?v=2

4. Modeling the lac Operon to Understand the Regulation of Gene Expression in Prokaryotes

   27 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sam S Donovan

   University of Pittsburgh

   This resource is a recitation activity designed for an introductory biology course in which students explore a lac operon simulation (https://qubeshub.org/resources/phetlacoperon).

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1427/?v=1

5. Testing for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium

   11 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Claudia Neuhauser

   University of Houston

   Numbers Count Excel resource

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1416/?v=1

6. Quartile Tutorial

   11 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Claudia Neuhauser¹, David Phillip Schladt²

   1. University of Houston 2. University of Minnesota

   Numbers Count Excel resource

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1406/?v=1

7. Confidence Intervals Tutorial

   09 Sep 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Claudia Neuhauser¹, David Phillip Schladt²

   1. University of Houston 2. University of Minnesota

   Numbers Count Excel resource

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/754/?v=2

8. Mosquito Invasion! A Lotka-Volterra Competition Case Study

   24 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jessica Coyle

   In this instructor-led interrupted case study, students practice interpreting Lotka-Volterra competition model parameters using data on an invasive and native mosquito species.

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1364/?v=1

9. Optimal Foraging in Swirl

   15 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Mary Elizabeth McWhirt¹, Emily Weigel¹

   Georgia Institute of Technology

   This lesson centers around the marginal value theorem (MVT, Charnov 1976), which describes how animals should forage in patches. It serves as a pre-lab to teach MVT basics, vectors, ANOVA, and...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1213/?v=1

10. Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data using Serenity

    13 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Bonner

    St. John Fisher College

    In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1350/?v=1

11. Quantifying The Drivers and Impacts of Natural Disturbance Events – The 2013 Colorado Floods

    12 Jul 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Heather Susanne Zimbler-DeLorenzo

    Alfred University

    This lesson focuses on ways that scientists identify and use data to understand ecological disturbance events using data from five public datasets. The main lesson focused on interpretation of...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1349/?v=1

12. Mars Colony

    11 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By James Burton Deemy

    College of Coastal Georgia

    In this exercise students work in groups to design an agroecosystem to feed a Mars Colony while accounting for space and energy transfer limitations.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1296/?v=1

13. Island Frogs

    11 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By James Burton Deemy

    College of Coastal Georgia

    This is an exercise in island biogeography that allows students to reconstruct splits in the evolutionary history of several hypothetical frog species.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1295/?v=1

14. A Fun Introductory Command Line Exercise: Next Generation Sequencing Quality Analysis with Emoji!

    07 Jun 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Rachael St. Jacques¹, Max Maza¹, Sabrina Robertson², Guoqing Lu³, Andrew Lonsdale⁴, Ray A Enke⁵

    1. Department of Biology, James Madison University 2. Department of Psychology & Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3. Department of Biology and School of Interdisciplinary Informatics, University of Nebraska Omaha 4. ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls, Melbourne University 5. James Madison University

    This resource is a fun computer-based intro to command line programming. The activity takes FASTQ NGS data files and runs a fun program called FASTQE.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1092/?v=2

15. Intro to BIOMAAP - Highlander teacher notes

    31 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Hannah Callender Highlander

    University of Portland

    How I implemented these materials

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1261/?v=1

16. Plant Defenses and Bioprospecting Mini-case Study

    27 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By John Anthony Barone

    Columbus State University

    This narrative mini-case study for use in undergraduate ecology courses reviews plant defense theory within the context of bioprospecting. Students learn about factors affecting plant defenses and...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1235/?v=1

17. AVIDA exercise on the role of mutation in evolution

    21 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By William Beachly

    Hastings College

    A tested exercise at the college freshmen level using AVIDA-Ed to generate and test a hypothesis about the relationship between mutation rate and the probability of evolving a useful function in...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1224/?v=1

18. Intro to BIOMAAP - Student Math Anxiety Overview

    21 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Paige F.B. Ferguson

    University of Alabama

    This presentation is intended as a stand alone 45 minutes-1 hour presentation to give students general information on math anxiety and a few strategies to try on their own.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1223/?v=1

19. Investigating human impacts on local Hawaiian stream ecology

    20 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By pamela scheffler

    Students learn about stream ecology on the island of Hawaii using data available through USGS and University of Hawaii websites and develop an understanding for potential stream changes due to...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1222/?v=1

20. Examining human impacts on tusk evolution in elephants using authentic research data

    17 May 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kaitlin Bonner

    St. John Fisher College

    In this activity students explore and analyze real, authentic research data paired with HHMI’s “Selection for Tuskless Elephants” video in a hands-on investigation of human impacts on elephant...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1220/?v=1