Teaching Materials (1-20 of 23)

1. CourseSource 2.0: Finding high quality field-tested OERs, publishing evidence-based teaching activities, and promoting community collaborations.

   26 Jul 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Erin Vinson

   University of Maine

   Workshop materials related to the CourseSource platform. Presented at the the 2021 BIOME Institute.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2485/?v=1

2. Inquiry-based hypothesis testing using phylogenetic trees in MEGA

   17 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Kristin Hultgren

   Seattle University

   A key learning objective in biology is applying bioinformatics tools to test a real-life question. These inquiry-based modules have students assemble and align data, and construct simple...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2379/?v=1

3. Sequence Similarity: Introducing Biological Databases to Community College Biology Students

   01 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jennifer Katcher

   This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2407/?v=1

4. Developing a phylogram from computational resources.

   01 Jun 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Melanie Lenahan¹, Shea Cinquemani¹

   Raritan Valley Community College

   This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2404/?v=1

5. Introductory Video and worksheets on Module 1 and 2 on "Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and under the hood..."

   31 May 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Alice Tarun

   St. Lawrence University

   The video walks the students to complete Module 1 and 2 on Sequence Similarly and Alignment adapted from Tapprich (2019) and Hudson Alpha that teaches these modules within the context of the...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2394/?v=1

6. Using Synthetic Biology to Teach Data Science

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

   By Margaret S Saha¹, Beteel Abu-Ageel¹, Sanjana Challa¹, Xiangyi Fang¹, Chai Hibbert¹, Anna Isler¹, Elias Nafziger¹, Adam Oliver¹, Hanqiu Peng¹, Julia Urban¹, Vivian Zhu¹

   College of William and Mary

   Poster and supplemental materials on using synthetic biology to introduce students to meaningful data mining, analysis, and application to engineering novel biological constructs.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1326/?v=2

7. Using Synthetic Biology to Teach Data Science

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

   By Margaret S Saha¹, Beteel Abu-Ageel¹, Sanjana Challa¹, Xiangyi Fang¹, Chai Hibbert¹, Anna Isler¹, Elias Nafziger¹, Adam Oliver¹, Hanqiu Peng¹, Julia Urban¹, Vivian Zhu¹

   College of William and Mary

   Abstract for poster on using synthetic biology to introduce students to meaningful data mining, analysis, and application to engineering novel biological constructs.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1326/?v=1

8. Bioinformatics: Investigating Sequence Similarity - A Plant Biology Approach

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

   By Ami Erickson

   This laboratory module is a modification of the original published on CourseSource with a focus on plant biology. In the final activity, students conduct a BLAST to compare histone protein...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1247/?v=1

9. Sequence Similarity Resource Adaptation: Exploring Ebola Virus

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

   By William Tapprich

   University of Nebraska-Omaha

   This adaptation of the sequence similarity resource provides biology students with a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools. These concepts and tools are used to explore relationships...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/1219/?v=1

10. Sequence Similarity: An inquiry based and "under the hood" approach for incorporating molecular sequence alignment in introductory undergraduate biology courses

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

    By Adam Kleinschmit¹, Benita Brink¹, Steven Roof², Carlos Christopher Goller³, Sabrina Robertson³

    1. Adams State University 2. Fairmont State University 3. North Carolina State University

    This laboratory module, published on CourseSource, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/56/?v=5

11. Quantifying and Visualizing Campus Tree Phenology

    18 Apr 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Nate Emery¹, Caleb Trujillo¹, Andrew Jarosz¹, Tammy M Long¹

    Michigan State University

    This lesson, published on CourseSource, enables collaborative teams to collect, quantify, and analyze observable seasonal changes in nature.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1142/?v=1

12. Using Undergraduate Molecular Biology Labs to Discover Targets of miRNAs in Humans

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Adam Idica¹, Jordan Thompson¹, Irene Munk Pedersen¹, Pavan Kadandale¹

    University of California, Irvine

    In this lesson, we describe an easily adaptable lab module that can be used in existing undergraduate molecular biology lab courses to conduct authentic scientific research, published in CourseSource

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1007/?v=1

13. Using computational molecular modeling software to demonstrate how DNA mutations cause phenotypes

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Tara Phelps-Durr

    Radford University

    This lesson is a five-week series of laboratory activities designed to help students transition from applying lower order thinking skills to the central dogma to applying higher-order thinking skills.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1006/?v=1

14. Teaching RNAseq at Undergraduate Institutions: A tutorial and R package from the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Mark Phillip Peterson¹, Jacob T Malloy², Vincent P Buonaccorsi², James H Marden³

    1. Viterbo University 2. Juniata College 3. Pennsylvania State University

    This lesson plan was created to teach RNAseq analysis as a part of GCAT-SEEK network. It is provided here, both in finished form and with the modifiable source code, to allow flexible adaptation to...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1005/?v=1

15. Making toast: Using analogies to explore concepts in bioinformatics

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kate L. Hertweck

    University of Texas at Tyler

    Module using analogies to introduce students to genomics

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1003/?v=1

16. Infectious Chocolate Joy with a Side of Poissonian Statistics: An activity connecting life science students with subtle physics concepts

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Eric T. Holland¹, Greg Manley¹, Tamara Chiba¹, Rona Ramos¹, Simon Mochrie¹, Jennifer Frederick¹

    Yale University

    Lesson on what it means for biological processes to be Poissonian, published in CourseSource

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1001/?v=1

17. Homologous chromosomes? Exploring human sex chromosomes, sex determination and sex reversal using bioinformatics approaches

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Kelsey Metzger

    University of Minnesota, Rochester

    In this four- part guided activity, students will learn about the structure and function of human autosomal and sex chromosomes, view and interpret gene maps, and gain familiarity with basic...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1000/?v=1

18. A Hands-on Introduction to Hidden Markov Models

    04 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Tony Weisstein¹, Elena Gracheva², Zane Goodwin², Zongtai Qi², Wilson Leung², Christopher D. Shaffer², Sarah C.R. Elgin²

    1. Truman State University 2. Washington University in St. Louis

    A lesson in which students will understand the basic structure of an HMM, the types of data used in ab initio gene prediction, and its consequent limitations.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/999/?v=1

19. Exploration of the Human Genome by Investigation of Personalized SNPs

    03 Jan 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Lani C. Keller

    Quinnipiac University

    To increase students' interest in their own genomes, this computer-based laboratory lesson is designed to be coupled with the opportunity for the students to be genotyped by the consumer sequencing...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/993/?v=1

20. Bioinformatics - Investigating Sequence Similarity

    04 Dec 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Adam Kleinschmit¹, Benita Brink¹, Steven Roof², Carlos Christopher Goller³, Sabrina Robertson³

    1. Adams State University 2. Fairmont State University 3. North Carolina State University

    This laboratory module, leads introductory biology students in the exploration of a basic set of bioinformatics concepts and tools.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/56/?v=4