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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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