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1. Let's Talk About COVID-19

   26 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By zeynep teymuroglu¹, E Cabral Balreira², Joanna Wares³

   1. Rollins College 2. Trinity University 3. University of Richmond

   This exercise asks you to write a short paper reflecting on your personal experiences (or those you have read about) with COVID-19

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2054/?v=1

2. Introduction to Phylogenetic Trees for Comparative Genomic Analysis

   24 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Deborah Tobiason¹, William Davis²

   1. Carthage College 2. Washington State University

   In this activity, students are introduced to phylogenetic trees and networks as tools for analyzing evolutionary relationships.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2071/?v=1

3. Peek into Plant Diversity using Herbarium Specimens (Online!)

   20 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Katie Pearson¹, Natalie Love², Susan Mazer²

   1. Cal Poly State University 2. University of California, Santa Barbara

   This exercise introduces herbarium specimens and how they are used for research. Students contribute to specimen "digitization" using the citizen science platform Notes from Nature, and they work...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2068/?v=1

4. Lichens in Diverse Landscapes: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

   18 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Danielle Garneau¹, Matthew Joshua Heard², Mary Beth Kolozsvary

   1. SUNY Plattsburgh 2. Winthrop University

   This project makes use of publicly-available datasets on lichen presence and abundance and wet deposition, paired with geospatial data on air quality, tree canopy cover, and locally collected field...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2066/?v=1

5. Mosquito Surveys Along Anthropogenic Impact Gradients: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

   18 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Allison T Parker

   Northern Kentucky University

   This project explores the role of human land use and other environmental factors that affect native and invasive mosquito species distributions and the diseases that they can vector.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2064/?v=1

6. Backyard Beetles + Pollinators: EREN-NEON Flexible Learning Project

   18 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

   Rochester Institute of Technology

   Students observe insect pollinators and other floral visitors in their backyards, or campus, or nearby natural areas to describe plant-pollinator networks and assess how the assemblages from their...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2063/?v=1

7. Multiple choice quiz questions for biostatistics

   10 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Skylar Hopkins¹, Jeremy M Wojdak¹

   Radford University

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

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2059/?v=1

8. Introducing PHAGES Students to Primary Literature

   10 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sean McClory¹, Rivka Glaser², Denise L Monti³, Adam Rudner⁴

   1. La Salle University 2. Stevenson University 3. University of Alabama at Birmingham 4. University of Ottawa

   The ‘Introducing PHAGES Students to Primary Literature’ set of teaching resources offers faculty 2 distinct sets of teaching resources for introducing students to scientific literature in the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2049/?v=1

9. Exploring Phage Immunity Systems with a Scientific Reading and Communication Activity

   05 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Sean Coleman¹, Natasha Dean², Karen Klyczek³, Kirk R Anders⁴, Sumali Pandey⁵

   1. Wartburg College 2. La Sierra University 3. University of Wisconsin-River Falls 4. Gonzaga University 5. Minnesota State University Moorhead

   This jigsaw assignment is designed to increase students’ understanding of phage immunity systems, through reading primary literature and communicating key aspects.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2043/?v=1

10. Exploring Fundamental Concepts of Phage Immunity Systems: A jigsaw activity

    05 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Sean Coleman¹, Nathasha Dean², Karen Klyczek³, Kirk R Anders⁴, Sumali Pandey⁵

    1. Wartburg College 2. La Sierra University 3. University of Wisconsin-River Falls 4. Gonzaga University 5. Minnesota State University Moorhead

    This jigsaw assignment is designed to increase students’ understanding of phage immunity systems

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2042/?v=1

11. Phage Discovery Videos

    05 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Billy Biederman, Vic Sivanathan¹

    Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    A compilation of videos to support teaching the concepts and protocols for discovering and working with phage.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2034/?v=1

12. Writing Genome Announcements Collaboratively

    05 Aug 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Arturo Diaz¹, Julia Lee-Soety², Shima Chaudhary³, Richard Pollenz⁴

    1. La Sierra University 2. Saint Joseph’s University 3. South Texas College 4. University of South Florida

    This resources provides a framework for students to write a Genome Annoucement, collaboratively.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2038/?v=1

13. Atlas of Black Scholarship for Inclusive and Racially Diverse STEM Curricula – Volume I

    30 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Aparna Anandkumar¹, Ariel Moline², Pascale S. Guiton²

    1. Castro Valley High School & California State University East Bay 2. California State University East Bay

    The contributions of Black scientists to the advancement of STEM are poorly represented in course materials. Here, we provide an Atlas of Black Scholarship to help Life Sciences and Chemistry...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2022/?v=1

14. Build-a-Genome Lab Manual for RFP Synthesis

    28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    This lab manual describes a multi-week lab project for the design, assembly from oliognucleotides, cloning, and sequencing of the RFP gene. This resource was developed as part of NSF Award...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2012/?v=1

15. Yeast Scramble Lab Manual

    28 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Mark Jones, Lisa Scheifele¹

    Loyola University Maryland

    This laboratory manual includes protocols for SCRaMbling of yeast cells as well as phenotypic characterization. Appropriate student exercises are also included. This resource was developed as part...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2011/?v=1

16. GEA Introductory lesson on RNA-Seq

    25 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Jason Williams¹, Judy Brusslan², Ray Enke³, Matthew Escobar⁴, Vince Buonaccorsi⁵

    1. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 2. California State University Long Beach 3. James Madison University 4. California State University San Marcos 5. Juniata College

    This RNA-Seq lesson uses the CyVerse VICE Platform and Jupyter notebooks to examine the expression of the leptin gene in samples from a mouse experimental design evaluating diet (high-fat vs....

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1988/?v=1

17. NEON Data in the Classroom: Quantifying Spatial Patterns

    23 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kusum Naithani

    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701

    Students build on fundamental concepts of spatial patterns and combine this knowledge with the open-data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to quantify spatial autocorrelation and...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1398/?v=1

18. Cleaning Biodiversity Data: A Botanical Example Using Excel or RStudio

    16 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Michelle Gaynor

    University of Florida

    Access and clean an open source herbarium dataset using Excel or RStudio.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1964/?v=1

19. CRISPR Gene Editing: Designing the gRNA and Donor Template

    15 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Laurel Lorenz

    Princeton

    In this adaptation, students learn how CRISPR/Cas9 is used in bacterial immunity and gene editing. Students create both a gRNA target and a donor template to edit a gene. Mutations can be from the...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1962/?v=1

20. Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine - Ethics supplement

    08 Jul 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Keith A. Johnson

    Bradley University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

    The adaptation to Understanding COVID-19 Biology to Design a Vaccine entails two ethics supplements. The first supplement addresses the use of off-label drugs in the pandemic (or other situation)....

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1955/?v=1