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Using an Interactive Game, Gutsy, to Examine the Impacts of Pathogens and Everyday Events on the Human Gut Microbiome
29 Aug 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Ania A. Majewska*1, Shannon J. Hostetter1
University of Georgia
The human gut microbiome is often associated with ‘good bacteria’ in marketing campaigns for dietary supplements, probiotic drinks, and fermented foods. Yet, the dynamic and complex...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4905/?v=1
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1-078-MonodGrowthModel-ModelingScenario
29 Apr 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
Students model growth of bacteria E. coli in a limiting nutrient environment using data from a historical study.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3453/?v=2
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Genome Solver - A bioinformatics pipeline for community science
20 Feb 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Vinayak Mathur1, Gaurav Arora2, Anne Rosenwald3
1. Cabrini University 2. Gallaudet University 3. Georgetown University
The Genome Solver was an NSF-funded project developed as a way to train undergraduate life science faculty in basic web-based tools for bioinformatics. As part of the project we developed a one-day...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4648/?v=1
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BioTA Podcast Episode #34 Biofilms Podcast Overview
02 Feb 2024 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Seth Higbee1, Dr Pankaj Mehrotra2, J. Phil Gibson1
1. University of Oklahoma 2. University of the People, California, United States of America
BioTA Episode #34: Biofilms Authors: Seth Higbee1, Pankaj Mehrotra2, J. Phil Gibson1Prokaryotes are often taught to us as being free living single-celled organisms that lack membrane bound...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4631/?v=1
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Exploring the City of Biofilms: An Engaging Analogy-Based Activity for Students to Learn Biofilms
10 Oct 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Song Lin Chua*
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Multicellular biofilms constructed by microbes are key aspects of microbiology with significant implications in various fields, including medicine, environmental science, and biotechnology. While...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4535/?v=1
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2011-Teleken-EtAl-Mathematical modeling of microbial growth in milk
07 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Jhony Tiago Teleken
NA
A mathematical model to predict microbial growth in milk was developed and analyzed. The model consists of a system of two differential equations of first order. The equations are based on physical...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/4067/?v=1
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2004-Jones-Song-Thomas-Controlling wound healing through debridement
04 Apr 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Michael Jones1, B Song1, Diana Thomas1
NA
In this article, a system of differential equations that models slough/wound interaction is developed.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3971/?v=1
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2018-Winkle-Igoshin-Bennett-Josic-Ott-Modeling_Mechanical_Interactions_in_Growing_Populations_of_Rod-Shaped_Bacteria
08 Mar 2023 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By James Winkle
NA
Here, we present an agent-based model that allows growing cells to detect and respond to mechanical interactions.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3749/?v=1
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1-078-MonodGrowthModel-ModelingScenario
16 Jul 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Brian Winkel
SIMIODE - Systemic Initiative for Modeling Investigations and Opportunities with Differential Equations
Students model growth of bacteria E. coli in a limiting nutrient environment using data from a historical study.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3453/?v=1
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1-062-BacteriaGrowth-ModelingScenario
24 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Arati Nanda Pati
We offer students a simulation experience or data from a simulation and ask them to model the simulation using several approaches: exponential growth fit, difference equation, differential...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3268/?v=1
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1-115-ModelingWithFirstOrderODEs-ModelingScenario
22 May 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Michael Grayling
University of Cambridge, Cambridge ENGLAND UK
Several models using first order differential equations are offered with some questions on formulating a differential equations model with solutions provided.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/3216/?v=1
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Uninhibited Growth of Cells
10 Mar 2022 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Emily Boyce
South Puget Sound CC
In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2895/?v=1
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Science and Society: Integrating Historical Science Materials Into an Undergraduate Biology Course
30 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Shelley D. Copley*1, Sean Babbs1, Barbara Losoff1
University of Colorado Boulder
Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011) stresses the importance of fostering an understanding of the relationship between...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2730/?v=1
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Using Synthetic Biology and pClone Red for Authentic Research on Promoter Function: Genetics (analyzing mutant promoters)
25 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Todd T. Eckdahl1, A. Malcolm Campbell2
1. Missouri Western State University 2. Davidson College
Students often memorize the definition of a transcriptional promoter but fail to fully understand the critical role promoters play in gene expression. This laboratory lesson allows students...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2551/?v=1
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Using Synthetic Biology and pClone Red for Authentic Research on Promoter Function: Introductory Biology (identifying new promoters)
24 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By A. Malcolm Campbell1, Todd T. Eckdahl2
1. Davidson College 2. Missouri Western State University
Students often memorize the definition of a transcriptional promoter but fail to fully understand the critical role promoters play in gene expression. This laboratory lesson allows students to...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2547/?v=1
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You and Your Oral Microflora: Introducing non-biology majors to their “forgotten organ”
22 Aug 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Anna K. Strain1, Kieng B. Vang1
University of Minnesota
With limited time available for laboratory activities, introductory science courses for non-science majors typically use the laboratory period to reinforce material that was previously presented...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2514/?v=1
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Graphing bacterial growth rates: semi-log graphs v linear graphs
26 Feb 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Adam Marschall Jaros1, Adronisha Frazier2, Beth Alford2, Brandy Williams2
1. Lansing Community College 2. Northshore Technical Community College
In this activity, students will explore the concept of binary fission, generation time, and bacterial growth curves, with an emphasis on the log phase. Students will use semi-log graphs and linear...
https://qubeshub.org/publications/2252/?v=1
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Bacteria Transformation
02 Dec 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Matthew Zelisko1, Kimberly Anderson
University of Houston
TeachEngineering resource in which students construct paper recombinant plasmids to simulate the methods genetic engineers use to create modified bacteria.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/1492/?v=1
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Mutation and Selection: An Exploration of Antibiotic Resistance in Serratia Marcescens
25 Oct 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):
By Laurel Hester1, Mark Sarvary2, Corey Ptak
1. Keuka College 2. Cornell University
This laboratory module gives students hands-on experience with mutation and selection in bacteria.
https://qubeshub.org/publications/875/?v=1