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1. Scientist Spotlights and Data Nuggets Workshop Materials (BIOME 2021)

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

   By Jessica Ashley Allen¹, Jennifer Apple², Karen Groh³, Elizabeth Hamman⁴, Pratima Jindal⁵, Pat Marsteller⁶, Heather Olins⁷, Darlene Panvini⁸, Rachel Pigg⁹, Gustavo Requena Santos¹⁰, Merrie Renee Richardson¹¹, Sheela Vemu¹², Jennifer Wade¹³, Suann Yang¹⁴

   1. Columbia College 2. SUNY Geneseo 3. Good Samaritan College 4. St Mary's College of Maryland 5. Waubonsee Community College 6. Emory University 7. Boston College 8. Belmont University 9. University of Louisville 10. Science Yourself 11. Southcentral Kentucky Community & Technical College 12. Waubonsee Community College - Tenure Track and Northern Illinois University 13. Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 14. State University of New York College at Geneseo

   Materials and resources for the "Scientist Spotlights and Data Nuggets Workshop," presented at the 2021 Biology and Mathematics Educators (BIOME) Institute.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2496/?v=1

2. Examining Medical and Scientific Racism Using the Story of Henrietta Lacks

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

   By Melissa Haswell

   Davenport University

   This is a semester-long project in which students read and discuss the story of Henrietta Lacks from multiple ethical perspectives. This project was developed for an undergraduate science ethics...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2479/?v=1

3. Critical inquiry for inclusive teaching of statistics

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

   By Carrie Diaz Eaton

   Bates College

   Professional development workshop slides to help curate conversations in teaching statistics with a critical inquiry lens.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2458/?v=1

4. Open Practices Learning Community Curriculum

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

   By Karen Cangialosi

   Keene State College

   This is a learning community curriculum designed to engage participants in discussions, short readings and mini-exercises to explore basic tools for Open Educational Practices (OEP)

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2411/?v=1

5. Exploring EnvironmenATL Justice with Data Analytics and Visualization

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

   By Ethell Vereen

   Morehouse College

   Basic data handling and data analysis skills are introduced to visualize and analyze ‘big data.’ Environmental justice is introduced to give students an understanding of tools and strategies to...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2372/?v=1

6. Designing an Anti-Racist Syllabus

   08 Mar 2021 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By CSUEB Alliance for the Black Community Education¹, Ana Almeida¹, Kim Geron¹, Pascale S. Guiton¹, Nina Haft¹, Marlin Halim¹, Eve Higby¹, Michael Lee¹, ZáNean McClain¹

   California State University East Bay

   The Alliance for the Black Community (ABC) developed a workshop to help faculty at California State University East Bay redesign their syllabi to incorporate anti-racist pedagogical practices.

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2284/?v=1

7. Molecular CaseNet - Developing Intro Tutorials - YouTube

   03 Dec 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Jean Cardinale¹, Keith A. Johnson², Marie C. Montes-Matias³, Natalie Stringer⁴, Aeisha Thomas⁵, Shuchismita Dutta⁶

   1. Alfred University 2. Bradley University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences 3. Union County College 4. LabArchives, LLC 5. Crown College 6. RCSB Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

   Biome Institute 2020, Summary Video

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2157/?v=1

8. Molecular CaseNet - Students Writing Cases - YouTube

   03 Dec 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

   By Didem Vardar-Ulu¹, Elizabeth Pollock², Kasandra Riley (She/Her)³, Nik Tsotakos⁴, Swati Agrawal⁵, Shuchismita Dutta⁶

   1. Boston University, Chemistry Department 2. Stockton University 3. Rollins College 4. Penn State Harrisburg 5. University of Mary Washington 6. RCSB Protein Data Bank, Rutgers University

   Biome Institute 2020, Summary Video

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2158/?v=1

9. Team microBIOME Fall 2020 - DIY microbiome analysis

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

   By Davida Smyth¹, Alice Tarun², Christine Girtain³, Melanie Lenahan⁴, Maira Goytia, Khuanchivin Geena Sompanya⁵, Theodore Muth⁶

   1. The New School 2. Alfred State College 3. Toms River Regional School NJ 4. Raritan Valley Community College 5. CUNY 6. CUNY Brooklyn College

   This is our final team report for this year's BIOME Institute 2020. Learn about what we got up to and what we're planning for Spring 2021. If you want more information on REMNet go...

   https://qubeshub.org/publications/2148/?v=1

10. Genomics Lessons with GEA - RNA-Seq CURES

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

    By Vince Buonaccorsi¹, Marcella Denise Cervantes², Douglas L Chalker³, Maira Goytia, Wilson Leung³, Laurel Lorenz⁴, Laura Reed⁵, Anne Rosenwald⁶, Analyne Manzano Schroeder⁷, Emily Wiley⁸, Jason Williams⁹

    1. Juniata College 2. Albion College 3. Washington University in St. Louis 4. Princeton 5. University of Alabama 6. Georgetown University 7. Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute 8. Claremont McKenna College 9. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

    Our BIOME Group worked towards developing a set of learning goals for faculty who plan to launch a CURE based on RNA-Seq data. We also developed a workflow for analysis of either prokaryotic or...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2147/?v=1

11. Analysis of Amylase Activity

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

    By Allison Carter Burlyn¹, Christina Fieber¹, Melanie Lenahan²

    1. Horry-Georgetown Technical College 2. Raritan Valley Community College

    This lab is an exploration of enzyme function and the effects of environmental conditions on the activity of the enzyme amylase. The lab utilizes analytical and graphing skills to assess enzyme...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2145/?v=1

12. S-JEDI Learning Group Resource

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

    By Carrie Diaz Eaton¹, Jasmine Roberts², Pat Marsteller³, Maggie Diamond-Stanic⁴

    1. Bates College and QUBES 2. The Ohio State University 3. Emory University 4. Bates College

    This resource provides a curriculum for a 6 week learning group centered on examining social justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion, specifically geared to organizational leaders in open education.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/2079/?v=1

13. Lesson VII - Synteny

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

    By Gaurav Arora¹, Anne Rosenwald², Vinayak Mathur³

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

    The lesson teaches about synteny or the order of genes along a chromosome, which is useful for looking at orthologous genes between two species or strains.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1414/?v=3

14. Phage Discovery Videos

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

    By Billy Biederman¹, 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

15. 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

16. Vertebrate Clade Race

    11 Jun 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By David Baum¹, Kristin Jenkins²

    1. University of Wisconsin 2. BioQUEST

    This activity introduces basic tree reading skills for evolutionary phylogenies. It is designed as a short group activity. After completing this activity, students should be familiar with basic...

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1906/?v=1

17. Digital Atlas of Ancient Life | Exploring the Diversity and History of Fossil Life

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

    By Jonathan Hendricks

    Paleontological Research Institution

    The Digital Atlas project include field guides to fossils (including a mobile app), an online paleontology textbook, and a collection of over 500 virtual 3D models of fossil specimens.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1893/?v=1

18. Caribbean coral reef structure and biodiversity - Comparing boosted regression tree & multiple regression approaches

    29 May 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Eric Womack

    Virginia Commonwealth University

    Creating and comparing boosted regression tree models to multiple regression models.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1870/?v=1

19. Using Digitized Collections-Based Data in Research: A Hands-On Crash Course in Ecological Niche Modeling

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

    By Blaine Marchant

    Stanford University

    Step-by-step, hands-on instruction on ways to access and download these specimen data, how to process climate layer data, and how to apply Maxent software to construct ecological niche models.

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1819/?v=1

20. Coding Club: A Positive Peer-Learning Community

    22 Apr 2020 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s):

    By Gergana Daskalova¹, Sandra Angers-Blondin¹, John Godlee¹, Izzy Rich¹, Beverly Tan¹, Declan Valters¹, Haydn Thomas¹, Pedro Miranda¹, Gabriela Hajduk¹, Kat Keogan¹, Isla Myers-Smith¹, Kyle Dexter¹, Christina Coakley¹

    University of Edinburgh

    Free and self-paced tutorials and courses for learning to code out of the University of Edinburgh

    https://qubeshub.org/publications/1816/?v=1