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1. Biodiversity research using digitized, internet-based natural history collections

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

   By Kaitlin Stack Whitney

   Rochester Institute of Technology

   Collections based research is a critical tool for organismal biology and biodiversity research. Yet natural history collections have a complicated past. This multi-class module examines the...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1553/?v=1

2. An Introduction to Biodiversity Databases and Specimen Images

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

   By Amanda Fisher

   Long Beach State University

   In this module, students will be introduced to some biodiversity data resources and how to search for and download herbarium specimen images. They will be asked to think critically about the...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1493/?v=1

3. Lesson VI - The Community Science Project

   19 Nov 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

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

   Genome Solver's Community Science Project was developed as a way to use the skills taught in the previous lessons. We're asking members of the community to provide instances of potential phage...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/859/?v=2

4. Earth Analytics in Python Course

   01 Nov 2019 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Leah Wasser¹, Jenny Palomino¹, Chris Holdgraf²

   1. Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder 2. University of California, Berkeley

   Earth analytics is an intermediate, multidisciplinary course that addresses major questions in Earth science and teaches students to use the analytical tools necessary to undertake exploration of...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1437/?v=1

5. Neochromosomes: Creating transcriptional units with yeast Golden Gate assembly

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

   By Eric Cooper

   Hartwick College

   This resource is a series of protocols using the yeast Golden Gate (yGG) method as developed by Neta Agmon and Leslie Mitchell in Jef Boeke’s lab to assemble a functional yeast gene with...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1453/?v=2

6. Neochromosomes: Creating transcriptional units with yeast Golden Gate assembly

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

   By Eric Cooper

   Hartwick College

   This resource is a series of protocols using the yeast Golden Gate (yGG) method as developed by Neta Agmon and Leslie Mitchell in Jef Boeke’s lab to assemble a functional yeast gene with...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1453/?v=1

7. Complete Set of Lessons

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

   By Anne Rosenwald¹, Gaurav Arora², Vinayak Mathur³

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

   The Genome Solver Project began as a way to teach faculty some basic skills in bioinformatics - no coding or scripting. These Lessons also work well in the undergraduate classroom, culminating with...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/860/?v=2

8. Introduction to Earth Data Science Textbook

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

   By Jenny Palomino, Leah Wasser

   Introduction to Earth Data Science is an online textbook for anyone new to open reproducible science and the Python programming language. There are no prerequisites for this material, and no prior...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1440/?v=1

9. Earth Analytics in R Course

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

   By Leah Wasser

   Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder

   Earth analytics is an advanced, multidisciplinary course that addresses major questions in Earth science and teaches students to use the analytical tools necessary to undertake exploration of...

   https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1439/?v=1

10. Earth Analytics Bootcamp Course

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

    By Jenny Palomino¹, Leah Wasser

    Earth Lab - University of Colorado, Boulder

    The Earth Analytics Bootcamp is a three-week introductory-level course taught by instructors in Earth Lab and is a part of the Professional Certificate in Earth Data Analytics - Foundations at CU...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1438/?v=1

11. 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/qubesresources/publications/1326/?v=2

12. Build-a-Phage Lab Manual

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

    By Lisa Scheifele¹, Eric Cooper², Robert Newman³

    1. Loyola University Maryland 2. Hartwick College 3. North Carolina A&T University

    This is a lab manual for phage genome synthesis that includes both Building Block synthesis and Semi-synthetic assembly.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1250/?v=1

13. 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/qubesresources/publications/1326/?v=1

14. Exploring how climate will impact plant-insect distributions and interactions using open data and informatics

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

    By Wendy Clement¹, Kathleen Prudic², Jeffrey Oliver³

    1. The College of New Jersey 2. University of Arizona 3. University of Arizona Libraries

    This teaching module provides an entry point for students to learn about data science, open data repositories (e.g., citizen science data), and species distribution modeling to study the effects of...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1286/?v=1

15. BAG Lab Manual Yeast

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

    By Lisa Scheifele

    Loyola University Maryland

    This is the lab manual for yeast chromosome synthesis

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1241/?v=1

16. Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally

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

    By Jillian K. Decker

    State University of New York - Rockland Community College

    How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally?

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1249/?v=1

17. Processes that Regulate Patterns of Species and Genetic Diversity

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

    By Jillian K. Decker

    State University of New York - Rockland Community College

    This activity was developed for an undergraduate upper level ecology course for Environmental or Biological Science majors. Classes of ~20 students work best for the activity.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1245/?v=1

18. Exploring the population dynamics of wintering bald eagles through long-term data using R

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

    By Kristen Kaczynski

    California State University - Chico

    The purpose of this modification was to take the analyses that were done in Excel and have the students perform them using R. Students were not given any R code for this activity, as R code was...

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1158/?v=1

19. Population Demography in Swirl

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

    By Emily Weigel

    Georgia Institute of Technology

    The students will learn to generate, test, and graphically represent basic hypotheses on data distributions using large datasets.

    https://qubeshub.org/qubesresources/publications/1214/?v=1

20. 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/qubesresources/publications/1142/?v=1